Archive for February 25th, 2008
Call For Legal Clarification On Franchises
The Australian: The Franchise Council of Australia, which represents franchisors, that are often bigger small businesses, and franchisees, many of which are micro-businesses, is worried that a court decision might end up burning thousands of businesses. And this is a $150 billion industry with nearly 1000 franchise systems, contributing to 14 per cent of Australia’s [...]
The Guardian: Coffee breaks are the norm for many in the working world. But for virtual assistant (VA) Jaime Lee Mann, who works from her Kingston home, a cup of java in a café setting during the day with company older than Sesame Street- age is a true treat. “It’s just so nice to get [...]
From Nursing Needs To Big Business
The Go! Pillow is quickly becoming a well known product amongst many parents. Made by a mom who was just looking to solve her own needs, she soon found that their was a market out there for her nursing pillow and got the help she needed to become the business she is today. Sold under [...]
Teaching Your ‘Chickins’ How To Eat Healthy
Anyone who watched Rachael Ray in January might already know who Leslie Grant is. Leslie is the “Mother Hen” behind Chickin Feed, a website dedicated to helping parents teach their children how to eat healthy and make balanced meal choices. As a mom, she wanted a fun way to teach her children how to eat [...]
Write Collaborative Business Apps Without Knowing How to Program
Cullen Coates, a management consultant from Larkspur, Calif.-based Crystal Bay Solutions, is not a software engineer. But that didn’t keep him from creating an entire suite of on-demand software applications to assist nonprofit organizations – everything from donor management to collaborative tools for workgroups – without writing a single line of code. Coates is just [...]
6 Figure Blogging, Blogging a Career Choice?
Can blogging be considered a full time income? Some blogs are cashing in making over 6 figures. BusinessWeek reports: 1. icanhascheezburger.com Launched: January, 2007 Revenue: Estimated $5,600 a month based on ad rates and self-reported traffic data This blog, consisting of silly photos of cats, and even sillier captions, rocketed to the top of the [...]
The Worlds Cheapest Car: Tata Nano
The best strategy isn’t always selling the most expensive car, but why not aim for the cheapest? The Tata Nano strives to become the world’s cheapest car. Wheels: Over the past year, Tata has been building hype for a car that would cost a mere 100,000 rupees (roughly $2,500) and bring automotive transportation to the [...]
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Mother Of All Music Collections Sells For $3M
ABC News: Plenty of people use eBay to rid their lives of clutter, but perhaps no one before has done it on the scale that Paul Mawhinney has. The Pittsburgh man is the owner of a staggering archive of 3 million records and 300,000 CDs that hit the auction block this week. Snapping up a [...]
12 People Who Are Changing Your Retirement
The Wall Street Journal: Joseph Coughlin describes his work as “trying to get people to ‘age cool.’ ” More specifically, as director of AgeLab, a research program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, he is pushing advances in transportation, health care and housing off drawing boards and into older adults’ lives. And he can’t do [...]
The Smartest Unknown Indian Entrepreneur
Forbes: Entrepreneur Marc Benioff is afraid of him. Venture king Mike Moritz wants to invest in him. You have never heard of Sridhar Vembu, founder and CEO of AdventNet, the company behind newly launched productivity suite Zoho. Vembu is a low-profile guy if there ever was one. He is also cheap as hell. Yet, of [...]
National Entrepreneurship Week Kicks Off
NFIB.com: The second annual National Entrepreneurship Week will take place Feb. 23 – March 1. In 2006, Congress designated the last week in February to be used to recognize America’s entrepreneurs. This year, organizations across the country are taking time during this week to appreciate the outstanding contributions made by entrepreneurs to our country and [...]
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