Archive for December 6th, 2007
The Only Business Advice You Really Need
The Huffington Post: Moms, want to work at home but don’t know where to start? Wish you could make money in your spare time but aren’t sure how to succeed? There’s only one piece of advice you really need: Don’t do the laundry. That’s it, the most useful thing I can tell you. Never ever, [...]
My Favorite Books of 2007: The 4-Hour Workweek
I’d be remiss in putting together a list of my favorite business books of 2007 if I didn’t mention The 4-Hour Workweek. I’ve given away a number of copies already, and still have some signed copies left. If you’d like to enter the giveaway, please post a comment on this entry. Other giveaways this month [...]
Big Idea Group: Big Idea Group in Manchester, New Hampshire, conducts a number of Hunts and Contests for innovation-seeking companies. Hunts are searches for innovations or technologies in a particular area. Currently, there are two idea hunts in progress. Ragu is seeking innovations to solve some of the challenges busy moms encounter in making pasta [...]
5 Tips For Socially Responsible Startups
Greenbiz.com: Honest Tea is a pioneer in its industry, offering lightly sweetened, 100 percent organic beverages and claiming the first line of fair trade certified bottled tea in the U.S. Honest Tea truly exemplifies the “new wave” in business — placing equal emphasis on profitability, ecology and humanity, aka the triple bottom line. More and [...]
Miami Herald: It didn’t take David Lopez long to figure out the last thing he wanted was to be just another cog in a corporate wheel. ”I wasn’t right for the whole corporate thing,” he says. “I wanted the American dream, but I didn’t think I’d achieve it with a corporation.” The problem was figuring [...]
Springwise: Two and a half years ago, Zopa launched its social finance concept in the UK. Yesterday, they finally went live in the US. While the basic principle is the same—consumers lend to other people instead of banks, and both parties win—Zopa US deviates from the path taken by its British sibling. While Zopa UK [...]
Firm Fills Niche For Shipping Big
Commercial Appeal: To say that Kim and Cary Doehring are in the shipping biz misses the point. In the billions of dollars of goods that cross in the stratosphere over Memphis, they crate and ship the elite loads: million-dollar Monets, jet engines, printing presses and high-end antiques, including one very authentic home plate from Yankee [...]
