Archive for December 21st, 2007
Having It All Includes A Business For Some Moms
Downtowm Express: Nikki Francis, started a business that draws on her former career in fashion design. Francis makes all-natural spa products and markets them using her experience in product development at J. Crew, The Limited and United Colors of Benetton. Francis, 41, started making spa products as Christmas gifts several years ago. Soon, her friends [...]
One Mom's Invention: The MIO Watch
You may not know who she is, but Liz Dickinson is the creator of the MIO Watch. The MIO watch became a creation of necessity. After many failed attempts at weight loss Liz found herself going to a personal trainer. What she had learned from that turned into the MIO Watch in the end. This [...]
BusinessWeek: If your mailbox has been light on invites to holiday soirées this season, there may still be cause for celebration: Just check your in-box. Ad-supported online services that deliver festive, free e-mail invitations are surging in popularity. Market leader Evite says it’s on track to deliver a record number of holiday party invites. The [...]
Rhonda Abrams At Gannett News Service: Getting the first customer is a major hurdle for many new entrepreneurs. Typically that’s because new business owners either are afraid of asking for the sale or potential customers are afraid of being the very first to buy. How can they conquer these issues? Here are some tips: Overcoming [...]
Striking Writers May Launch Web Start-Ups
Los Angeles Times: Dozens of striking film and TV writers are negotiating with venture capitalists to set up companies that would bypass the Hollywood studio system and reach consumers with video entertainment on the Web. At least seven groups, composed of members of the striking Writers Guild of America, are planning to form Internet-based businesses [...]
AppScout: Call me old fashioned, but I remember a time when people were coming up with creative ways to rid themselves of the deluge of free AOL disks. But apparently, if you travel in the right circles (my money is on eccentric billionaires with far to much free time and extra space in their giant [...]
ars technica: Happy blog-a-versary! This week is the tenth anniversary of the coining of the term that makes some of us giddy and others recoil in horror: blogging. If you subscribe to the view that says the term was coined by Jorn Barger on December 17, 1997, today’s the day. It was on that day [...]
