Archive for December 14th, 2007
Mommy Empire Is A One-Stop Resource For Entrepreneurial Moms
EarthTimes.org: Thanks to the advent of the Internet the phrase “mommy track” is taking on a whole new meaning. Mothers who left traditional 9-to-5 jobs in the corporate world are now launching their own businesses — many of them online businesses — in record numbers. The recently launched http://www.mommyempire.com/ website is designed as a comprehensive [...]
Paskong Pinoy: Even in this supposed season of giving, a seemingly innocuous activity such as Christmas shopping is bound to be a test of selflessness and goodwill among Bea Valdes’ legions of fans. As her way of saying thank you to friends and supporters, the celebrated Filipino bag and accessories designer has come up with [...]
The WAHM Behind Sweet Greetings
I recently got the opportunity to do an interview with the woman behind Sweet Greetings, a business that provides lawn announcements for those who are interested in announcing to the world about the new bundle of joy in their family, and other occasions. What type of business is Sweet Greetings? Sweet Greetings is a Personalized [...]
Man Has Thumb On Next Great Musical Invention
KXAN.com: In the mid-20th century, the electric guitar caught on in a big way. A quarter century later, it was the synthesizer. After another quarter century, Austin resident Jim Plamondon says thinks he has his thumb on the next big musical invention. “First of all, my wife and daughter were taking piano lessons and complaining [...]
Biz Resource: 411SmallBusinessFacts.com
NFIB: 411SmallBusinessFacts.com is a searchable data base of approximately 2,000 facts about American small businesses and their owners (or managers) produced by the NFIB Research Foundation. The Foundation developed this information from telephone surveys of small employers – those employing from one person in addition to the owner(s) to 250. Data collection began in 2001 [...]
The Skinny On Building A Rocking Startup
Forbes: A chocolate chip cookie changed Heidi Roizen’s life. Roizen, 49, is one of Silicon Valley’s best-known venture capitalists. She has been a pivotal player in the valley for years, and counts both Bill Gates and Warren Buffett among her friends. In the 1980s, Roizen co-founded a software company with her brother, and then came [...]
How He Makes Money With Pickles
Business Week has an interesting interview with Rick Field, owner of Rick’s Picks about how he makes money with pickles: Some of the things that were fun about pickling as a hobby proved to be inefficient and costly in the business world. We discovered that those quaint etched-glass squared-off Mason jars didn’t roll right in [...]
Tracing Business Acumen To Dyslexia
The New York Times: It has long been known that dyslexics are drawn to running their own businesses, where they can get around their weaknesses in reading and writing and play on their strengths. But a new study of entrepreneurs in the United States suggests that dyslexia is much more common among small-business owners than [...]
Last-Minute Tips For Trimming Your 2007 Taxes
The Wall Street Journal: Many taxpayers still have time to make last-minute moves that could trim their tax bills significantly for 2007. These include traditional tactics such as dumping investment losers, donating stock to charity, and timing deductions and income carefully. But taxpayers should also consider a few other strategies that stem from recent tax-law [...]
Survey Results: Business Structure
Earlier this week, I asked what structure most of the readers were using. Turns out that an incredibly high percentage of you are sole proprietors.
Stork Rental Business Opportunity: Sweet Greetings
Sweet Greetings is a personalized lawn stork and all occasion yard card rental business opportunity. They offer 4 to 7 foot personalized birth, birthday and other occasion plastic lawn announcements. How Does The Business Work? For the birth announcement storks, when a baby is born customers call and order a lawn stork. The business labels [...]
