Archive for October 26th, 2007
Bizymoms.com Launches New Section For Mom Entrepreneurs
PowerHomeBiz.com: Bizymoms.com knows firsthand how hard it can be to get a home business off the ground. After all, they are all home business owners themselves. Everyone at Bizymoms believes that all a woman needs to make her home business dream a reality is determination, motivation and a strong cheering section. This is why, over [...]
Business 2.0 Magazine: Some people can’t stop thinking about food. Bill Gross can’t stop thinking about new businesses. One of the world’s great serial entrepreneurs, he’s launched more than 50 startups through Idealab, his incubator in Pasadena, Calif. His track record includes both winners (CitySearch, Cooking.com, NetZero/United Online) and losers (eToys, Eve.com, Free-PC). But he’s [...]
Niche Biz: Freeze-Dried Burials
Springwise: The pharaohs built pyramids to help protect their mummified remains for millennia. But these days an opposite trend has taken hold: low-impact burials that enable a body to naturally revert back to the soil as quickly as possible. In the UK, for example, well over 100 special cemeteries permit the burial of the deceased [...]
User Generated Content Doesn’t Work For Everyone
ReadWriteWeb: Denver, Colorado-based ManiaTV was launched in 2004 as a video destination based around quality, professionally produced content. When YouTube exploded onto the scene, though, ManiaTV tried to jump on the bandwagon by launching over 3000 channels of user generated content (UGC). Curiously, however, even while YouTube thrived and eventually grew to a $1.65 billion [...]
Money Magazine: Being your own boss has a lot of advantages, but making the transition from the traditional corporate world takes work. Give yourself financial padding Most people need to set aside a year’s worth of income before they cut themselves loose. You’ll know within eight months whether you’re developing a sustainable business. To boost [...]
BusinessWeek: Advanta Bank’s Ideablob.com invites visitors to submit their business ideas for feedback and enter a monthly contest to win $10,000. Prepacked lunch boxes is one of the most popular recent ideas. Two others: a real estate Web site “that finally rids the world of real estate brokers” and a Web site to search for [...]
