Archive for October 22nd, 2007
Mama's Musings Is Finalist For Blog Of The Year
eMediaWire: Christine Louise Hohlbaum’s blog, Mama’s Musings, was named a Finalist in the Blog of the Year category in The 4th annual Stevie Awards for Women in Business, presented by Infiniti. “I started Mama’s Musings to reach out to the expat mother community,” states Ms. Hohlbaum, American author of Diary of a Mother and SAHM [...]
Toy Shopping For Differently Abled Children
Parents & Kids: SensoryEdge, founded in 2003, is one such Internet-based retail store that caters to all children—including those with special needs. The variety of toys, furniture and items carried is astounding, but fortunately, the company also distributes a hard-copy catalog. Alycia Shapiro, who co-founded SensoryEdge with her husband Ed, was attending UCLA Law School [...]
Bringing Home The Money Without Leaving
The Gazette: Megan Hanlon-Akright wanted to get back into the work force. But she didn’t want to go back to commuting to a job. A flexible schedule was what the 47-year-old Danville, Calif., resident was looking for, something that would let her work at home so she could be around when her 9-year-old daughter and [...]
Popular Science Invention Awards
Popular Science: Do you have an invention you KNOW will someday change the world? Have you been toiling for years in your basement, building prototype after prototype to PROVE that your idea works? If so, tell us about it! Enter the second annual PopSci Invention Awards. We’re looking for game-changing products that come from the [...]
BusinessWeek: Online payroll service SurePayroll recently released a survey of 450 small business owners that forecasts which way the small-biz vote will go in the 2008 Presidential election. The survey shows that of the 84% of small business owners who said they plan to participate in their state’s primary or caucus, 59% of them favor [...]
Post-Dispatch Washington Bureau: The sign on the store counter read: “We’ll help you if we can.” Ethel Radke hoped someone could. At age 85, she was struggling every day to remove compression stockings she needed after hip surgery. That’s what brought her to the Home Depot in St. Louis, where she bought an aluminum rod [...]
Springwise: Few possessions are closer to married consumers’ hearts than their wedding rings, but purchase decisions have traditionally been limited to figuring out whether to buy one ready-made or to ask a jeweller to make a custom one. Now New York Wedding Ring is offering consumers a third possibility: make it themselves. Consumers are well-acquainted [...]
Entrepreneur: Q: I have come up with a recipe for what I call my nature bars and have started to make them for people. Do I have to copyright my recipe and how do I get started doing this as a business? A: Nina Kaufman, co-founder of Paltrowitz & Kaufman LLP, small-business focused law firm, [...]
