Archive for January 29th, 2008
Mom Mixes Cookies With Patience
The Herald News: Linda Hardin started with a handful of wheat- and dairy-free recipes, but learned that growing her business depends on perseverance and patience as much as a good oatmeal-cranberry cookie. “I was warned this was a real tough business, and it is, but I’m hoping to sneak in through the back door with [...]
Mobile Dog Groomer Works With Mom
Savannah Morning News: Tuesday Cook-Hannah runs Bev’s Mobile Grooming with her mother, Beverly Strange. It is “a complete groom shop on wheels,” Cook-Hannah said. About 90 percent of her clients live at The Landings. Inside the van, which her mother designed for this business, there are typically five or more dogs. There is a section [...]
This new TCM ad reads: This is a message from TMC to all the Hollywood screenwriters on strike: Keep it up guys. After all, the greatest movies have already been written.
From Yahoo.com LONDON (Reuters) – From the outside it’s an ordinary, red-brick house in a terraced row, not unlike tens of thousands of others scattered across Britain. But on the inside, Jean Preston’s spartan Oxford home contained works of art of international significance, carefully acquired over a lifetime and haphazardly displayed. Preston, a thrifty 77-year-old [...]
Workout At Work With This Chair
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Tired of Striking At Work? The Colbert Show Writers Are
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An Advance In The Flight Business
From MSNBC.com FRANKFURT – German nudists will be able to start their holidays early by stripping off on the plane if they take up a new offer from an eastern German travel firm. Travel agency OssiUrlaub.de said it would start taking bookings from Friday for a trial nudist day trip from the eastern German town [...]
This new product, Cheeseburger In A Can, comes from a Swiss-based company. To prepare, throw the can into boiling water for a few minutes, open, and enjoy. The burger-in-a-can also has a shelf life of a year. Delicious.
io9.com: Yoshihiro NakaMats, 79, is Japan’s most prolific – and bizarre – inventor. He claims to have 3,350 patents (Thomas Edison only had 1,093), and that several of them are for the floppy disk. “Everyone knows about the floppy disk,” he says. “But I also invented the fax machine, automatic pachinko, and the taxi meter.” [...]
Entrepreneur: According to ArmyTimes, Congress is getting closer to passing legislation that would help veterans and reservists who own small businesses. The bill would create a $50,000 no-collateral, small-business loan for reservists and vets. In addition, it would add four new veteran-business outreach centers and create an interagency federal task force on small-business issues. The [...]
Mother’s Invention Eliminates Common Kids’ Problem
PRNewswire: Jennifer McManigal attended dozens of parties with her two children over the years, and the same thing happened each time — her kids didn’t remember which drink belonged to them. “At a typical child’s birthday party, I’d see kids get a soda can or juice box, take one sip, then abandon the drink only [...]
Entrepreneur Takes Reins Of NFIB
Indianapolis Business Journal: When Barbara Quandt was launching her career in the mid-1970s, she purposely avoided learning how to type. “Everywhere you went, all people would ask is: ‘Can you type? How fast can you type?’” recalled Quandt, 57. But Quandt wanted a sales job—a rarity then for women—so she begged off typing classes and [...]
10 Least Profitable Businesses To Start
Forbes: Entrepreneurs start companies for all sorts of reasons. Maybe they have a passion, like being in control, want more flexibility–or even hate their current jobs. But no matter the inspiration, one thing’s for sure: They’d better make money. A rising revenue line might make for good cocktail conversation, but if you don’t turn a [...]
