Archive for September 26th, 2007
The Huffington Post: Motherhood didn’t hit me right away. It was exhilarating yet not quite real when I felt the first kicks in my belly…exciting yet hazy during our monthly sonograms and birthing classes. Not even after delivery, as I stared at two tiny bassinets wondering how the heck I was supposed to feed two [...]
Ebay: Mommy’s Company.com has been mentioned by ABC News, seen in Simply Home Magazine, CleverParents.com, ConnectingMoms.com, and is a staple in the online mom world. The site is also linked on WomenEntrepreneur.com, a premier business website! Mommy’s Company has worked with everyone from Darla Shine of the Happy Housewives Club to Victoria Pericon, the owner [...]
Americus Times-Recorder: Ashley Hatcher never dreamed that her frustration of dishes sliding on dinner trays would lead her to be an inventor! While suffering from a migraine, her daughter brought some food to her on one of the staple “bamboo trays”. When she brought the tray to Hatcher, everything had spilled. The tray was falling [...]
Retired, Broke? Start A Business
Rhonda Abrams at Gannett News Service: Congratulations! You’ve finally retired and moved to the desert, beach, mountains, city or some other dream retirement location. Fortunately, you’ve saved up enough to buy a great retirement home. However, you still need – or want – to make money. But you certainly don’t want another job; you’ve had [...]
Million Dollar Biz: PopCap Games
Entrepreneur: When game designer Jason Kapalka first met John Vechey and Brian Fiete in 1997, the two 19-year-olds had just been wooed from Indiana to work at Kapalka’s former employer, a gaming company. “We hit it off really well,” says Kapalka, who was impressed by an online game the two teens had created. “We kept [...]
Inventor Tells How :-) Was Born
Philadelphia Inquirer: This year marks the 25th anniversary of the infamous sideways smiley emoticon, invented by Scott E. Fahlman, a computer science professor at Carnegie Mellon University. Reporter Lara Fritzsche discovered why Fahlman is >:( about the newfangled knockoffs that his creation inspired. Q: You’re the inventor of “smiley faces,” which are used all over [...]
Mashable.com: Bang Ventures has launched “You Be the VC,” a new web site where entrepreneurs can submit their Web-based business ideas and the public can vote on the one’s they like best. Ultimately, the public will decide on the three ideas they like best, which Bang Ventures will then fund, in addition to providing programming [...]
