Archive for December 7th, 2007
This Mompreneur Tweaks Words, Not Noses
The Gazette: Worried that your participles are dangling or your infinitives might be split? The Coralville woman behind TweakMyWords.com, Belinda Bombei, can come to the rescue. She won’t write a paper for you, but for $7 a page, she’ll eliminate structure, grammatical, spelling and clarity issues in academic or professional papers in as little as [...]
The Dallas Morning News: Last May, McKinney cookie maker Mary Beth Schad entered the Martha Stewart Living “Dreamers Into Doers” contest, which was looking for women who have turned their hobbies into careers. She never thought that she might win. “I never enter contests, but a friend urged me to enter,” said Ms. Schad, owner [...]
Mom Starts Home Stationary Business
The Community Press: When Kim Dietrich Elam decided to give up her job as a traffic engineer two years ago to be a stay-at-home mom, she never envisioned it leading to a new career in the creative stationery business. Like many mothers at home with a new child, Elam snapped pictures of her daughter all [...]
Gigi Invention Blanketing The Market
Michigan Local & Small Business News: Heather Gaston, a native of Flushing, has joined the growing ranks of the momprenueurs, women who have created something to make their lives as moms easier and turned the creation into a business. Gaston’s creation? A small blanket, roughly the size of a placemat, made of “stylish and divine [...]
Fortune Small Business: In August 2008, Troy Widgery’s morning commute will get a lot more scenic. Instead of driving the five miles from Cherry Creek, Colo., to his office in downtown Denver, he’ll fly it, wearing a crash helmet and a jetpack strapped to his back. Widgery’s company, JetPack International, has spent the past two [...]
Daters Find “Spark” With Niche Online Communities
marketwire: Daters of all religious backgrounds, races, ages, and sizes turn to specialized dating Web sites such as JDate.com, ChristianMingle.com, BlackSingles.com, PrimeSingles.net, and BBWPersonalsPlus.com to find love, according to a trend report released by Spark Networks, Inc., the leading online personals provider with online communities. A majority of users believe their use of personals sites [...]
Architect Invents Toy Based On Scientific Riddle
Bend Bulletin: Mark Burginger expects most children’s eyes to glaze over when they hear terms like “nanotechnology” and “quantum mechanics.” A toy he invented aims to change that. Burginger, a self-employed architect, invented Qubits, an educational toy meant to teach children about myriad science and math concepts, including tetrahedrons, which are among the main building [...]
The New York Times: Lori Sandler traces the start of her company to the day in 1999 that her son Benjamin celebrated his first birthday. Not long before, she had learned that Benjamin was allergic to peanuts, tree nuts like cashews and walnuts, milk, eggs, sesame and shellfish. All Ms. Sandler could come up with [...]
Fortune Small Business: 1. Easy Money. Richard Branson’s new firm, Virgin Money, will change the face of finance by replacing inflexible loans from big banks with a more personal, nimble approach to lending. 2. Electric cars. For the first time since the early 20th century, America is seeing a flowering of entrepreneurship in the auto [...]
