Archive for September 27th, 2007
Naperville Mom Anxious To Open "Paint It Yours"
Daily Herald: Tammy Hockett knows a little bit about craft projects. When you’re looking for ways to stay close to your 10-year-old twin daughters and keep them and their friends entertained, you get used to working with paint and paste, stencils and stamps. Tammy Hockett knows a little about adversity, too. When you’re a divorced [...]
Mom Takes Her Designing To A Higher Level
Deseret Morning News: For Kristy Lee, scrapbooking isn’t just for her kids. That is, keeping her photos of her babies and tracking her family’s life. It’s a career and a showcase opportunity for her creativity. Lee is a scrapbook designer with five children, two Internet jobs and a bunch of magazines that feature her ideas. [...]
Business.MaineToday.com: Q: How did you get started? A: My friend Kelly L’Heureux was the former owner. She’s another soccer mom who lives in Falmouth, and had the business in her home and was selling it, so I bought it from her. She had bought it several years before, when it was the Poplar Ridge Cookie [...]
Brothers Create Profitable Biz
DailyBreeze.com: Hovering over the spinning lathe in their family’s Torrance garage, Cody and Chad Simon whittle away at the small block of wood. It only takes a few minutes before the sharp corners begin to disappear and the final form begins to take shape. They varnish it and slide metal pieces into place. Another one [...]
Coloradoan.com: When Tanner Highfill was growing up, he would fake being sick so he could stay home from school and watch the opening of the stock market. Since age 10, Megan Jansen yearned for independence and financial freedom. As an ambitious 12-year-old, Scott Mitchell needed a way to fund his hobby of restoring cars so [...]
Million Dollar Biz: The Great American Hanger Company
Entrepreneur: The fact that Devon Rifkin never attended college is just a tiny footnote in his success story. The fact that he has made millions selling hangers is slightly more unique. But for Rifkin, defying the standards means nothing if his business isn’t successful–or if his team isn’t sharing in the success. Says Rifkin, “To [...]
BusinessWeek: Whatever you decide to do, you need to make sure it doesn’t mess up your retirement plan. Pauline Muth of West Charlton, N.Y., was a junior high school science teacher who also loved shaping bonsai trees. About 17 years ago she registered her home as a nursery and started selling supplies to other bonsai [...]
Importance of Getting “Patent Pending”
Inventorspot: First, a patent pending (applied for and waiting for approval), consists of the patenting agent or attorney first doing a “patent search” to see if inventions of the same concept or design have already had patents applied for them. Also, keep in mind that once you have a patent pending, this can be noted [...]
