Archive for November 5th, 2007
Titzy's Wants To Make Mom And Baby Happy
Hometown Life: Sure, fluffy bunnies and pastel-colored jammies are nice, but sometimes your baby has her own unique style to express. So for the style-conscious baby, and her mother, there’s Titzy’s, a maternity, nursing and infant wear store that opened Oct. 1 in Royal Oak. “We opened up the store to offer things we couldn’t [...]
Philadelphia Inquirer: Consider the problem of Alex Hillman, 23, Web entrepreneur, quasi-college student, and architect of the Philadelphia version of an international trend known as co-working. “Three months working at my house, I was talking to the cat, and I don’t even have a cat,” Hillman said, describing what had happened after he quit his [...]
No Need To Pay To Find Free Money
SeattlePI: Q: I am a single mother starting a retail clothing franchise business. Are there any legitimate ways to find out about government grants for minority-run small businesses? I have been inundated with e-mails from companies wanting me to pay them for lists. Are any of these resources worth my money? A: Yes, we have [...]
‘Mompreneur’ Got Home Business Off The Ground
Parenting Magazine: Two years ago when Maria Thompson got pregnant with her third child, she left her job as a paralegal to get ready to be with her baby. Thompson looked into doing word processing from home. When she started researching opportunities, she found that she could offer more services as a “virtual assistant.” So [...]
Inc.: Sarah Talley was just a kid when she started helping her mother deliver melons from southern Indiana to grocery stores around her hometown of Keenes, Ill. At 31, she now heads Frey Farms, which includes one the nation’s largest pumpkin patches, supplying Wal-Mart, Kroger and other national retailers. And while pumpkins destined to become [...]
‘Time’ Names iPhone ‘Invention Of The Year’
CNET News: Time, which likes to anoint things, has named Apple’s iPhone the “Invention of the Year,” following such recent IotYs like YouTube and SpaceShipOne. The number one reason why the iPhone is Time’s Invention of the Year? “It’s pretty.” Further: “An example: look at what happens when you put the iPhone into ‘airplane’ mode [...]
