Archive for October 15th, 2007
3 Mom's Create Popular Kids Show
PR Web: Ten years ago three moms from San Diego were raising small children and noticed that there was limited television programming for preschoolers. Around this same time, they visited a friend’s farm and met an adorable young calf named Wilbur. Their kids fell in love with Wilbur and his farm, and the moms thought [...]
Mom Opens Her Own Scrapbooking Business
The News Journal: It was Tim Dull who actually sparked his wife’s decision to open her own business, Scrapbook Addicts. “If you’re going to buy the stuff, you might as well sell it,” Judy Dull recalls her husband telling her. Since she started doing scrapbooks as a hobby eight years ago, Dull has filled albums [...]
Stuff.co.nz: Visiting family in Fiji enlightened Ms Sanders to the potential for sun-safe swimwear in the notoriously pasty white English market. Now nine years old, Lion in the Sun serves international markets from two global warehouses, and it has just started retailing in New Zealand out of a garage in Havelock North. Selling UV-safe swimwear [...]
Rhonda Abrams at Gannett News Service: Employees are people, too. While that may appear obvious, some employers seem to treat their employees as disposable objects — easy to get, easy to discard, easy to replace. Well, employees aren’t disposable. Sure, sometimes you have to fire someone who isn’t working out, and other times you’re going [...]
Central Valley Business Times: Just finding a niche for your business will not guarantee success, says Susan Friedmann, author of a new book on developing niche businesses. You still have to “own” the niche in part by becoming the expert on your niche rather than a generalist. Ms. Friedmann’s book, “Riches In Niches: How to [...]
Computerized Pillow Reduces Snoring
Reuters: A German scientist has come up with a solution for snoring — a computerized pillow that shifts the head’s sleeping position until the noise stops. Daryoush Bazargani, professor of computer science at the University of Rostock and the pillow’s inventor, was displaying a prototype of his pillow at a health conference in Germany. “The [...]
Most Entrepreneurs Plan to Stay
Inc.: For many entrepreneurs, growing a business from scratch is akin to raising a child — which is perhaps why so many are reluctant to let go, according to a new survey. Of 201 business owners whose companies have at least $10 million in annual revenue, 32 percent said they have no plans for choosing [...]
Yankee Invention Expo Returns For 13th Year
Republican-American: Yankee Invention Expo 2007 and Yankee Entrepreneur Workshops will be held on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, October 11 through 13, 2007 in Waterbury, Connecticut. The Yankee Invention Exposition is a three day event where inventors can showcase their products to manufacturers, investors, venture capitalists, distributors, licensing firms, wholesalers/retailers and marketers. Also exhibiting will be [...]
