Archive for March 11th, 2008
My Small Business: When you hear Steve Marafiote has been working in the food business for more than 20 years it might not come as a surprise to discover his company turns over $25 million a year. What might surprise is that Marafiote is only 32. His company Australian Quality Plus is less than five [...]
From The Log Cabin To The Home Business
I’ve heard many different types of stories on how moms have started their own business, but I don’t think anything has been as unique as the story behind Heather from Mom 4 Life. How many people with young children can say that they spent the first few years of their life in a log cabin, [...]
Virtual Baby Shower To Honor Adoptive Mother
Pr.com: Baby showers have come an incredibly long way in the twenty-first century. When it comes to rejoicing the arrival of a new baby, the Internet has provided an excitingly fresh venue to celebrate new mothers and their children. Trailblazing the way for digital baby showers is a mother-owned and operated company called Little Ladybug [...]
ScreenBooth: Digital Video At Your Event
ScreenBooth is an interesting franchise out of Hawaii. It is a portable digital guestbook for weddings, proms and corporate events. On the 32 inch digital kiosk, guests find and select their name in the menu. Then they can either record a video greeting, or have a still photo taken and type a message. After the [...]
The Journal: A business that provides healthy soup from local ingredients was created out of necessity by a Northumberland mother. Jill Self’s Simple Soup business, launched this week, was inspired by her attempts to alleviate her youngest son’s eczema. Self did extensive research to find a way to ease the problem for Kieran, 13. The [...]
Inventor Shows Off Yackle Ball
statesville.com: Inventor Patricia Littwin’s persistence paid off earlier this week when she showed off her Yackle Ball to a national television audience. Littwin presented the ball she refers to as the next sport sensation on “The Big Idea” with Donny Deutsch on Monday. Littwin did a segment called “The Moment of Clarity,” in which she [...]
telegram.com: Abraham Lincoln applied for a patent this week (March 10) in 1849 for a device he invented that would lift boats over shoals and sandbars, and help them navigate shallow waters. He is the only president ever to have applied for, and received, a U.S. patent — Patent No. 6469. Which actually explains a [...]
From Clown To Carpenter To Inventor
Greece Post: It started out – like all good ideas, some might say – as a dream. The vision was so clear in George St. George’s mind he couldn’t get back to sleep. He couldn’t even stop when his wife, Peggy, asked what he was doing up in the middle of the night. “It shot [...]
Biz Books: The Girl’s Guide to Building a Million-Dollar Business
Entrepreneur: From preparing the kind of business you want to run to fine-tuning your image and conflict management style, the inspiring stories and advice offered in the following book will help women entrepreneurs take their businesses to the next level (even if it’s just the first). The Girl’s Guide to Building a Million-Dollar Business By [...]
