Archive for January 8th, 2008
Business Is Booming For 'Pink Boot Lady'
TheStar.com: Some people think big. Others, like the popular “pink boot lady,” just think bigger. And manage to get there faster. Featured last summer in the Star’s Thinking Big series on small business, Marissa McTasney, the founder of women’s work-wear line Tomboy Trades Ltd., has found hers growing by leaps and bounds since her story [...]
New York Times: Even though he broke his foot dancing at his brother’s wedding one recent weekend, life is still good for Bert Jacobs. Jacobs is the 42-year-old co-founder of Life Is Good, a popular apparel brand based in Boston that is on track to break $100 million in sales this year. This is rarefied [...]
Small Business Branding: Ask anyone in business what their plans are for the upcoming year? Chances are good that most will say, “I’m planning on taking my business to the next level”. What does that mean exactly? What measures have they taken, to achieve this goal? First off, they would have to establish exactly what [...]
Inventor Says “Bye’ To Yellow Jackets
Palo Alto Weekly: Paul Donahue’s been inventing contraptions since his boyhood in Berkeley, when he and his buddies zoomed down hills in a plywood “tank” — unfortunately before they had figured out how to install brakes. His latest gizmo — the G’Bye Yellow Jacket Trap — was inspired by a single yellow jacket that pestered [...]
New York Times: It was not so long ago, Neal Zimmerman recalls, that the term home office meant something very different from what it does today. In the early ’90s, when Zimmerman, a prominent workplace architect with offices in West Hartford, Conn., started designing residential work spaces, most people thought “home office” meant the headquarters [...]
‘Everyday Edisons’ Looking For Inventors
Everyday Edisons will be hosting a casting calls in Atlanta, Ga. on Saturday, January 12, 2008. This is the first of five national casting calls taking place in 2008. Everyday Edisons is a nationally televised show on PBS that educates viewers about the product development process and is produced with the cooperation of the United [...]
