Archive for March 26th, 2008
WBIR.com: If you’ve ever seen the fashion reality show “Project Runway,” you know that designers are often as colorful as their designs. And some of the designs can be way out. But an Oak Ridge mom has designed a simple, sophisticated dress that has catapulted her into the elegant eight in a nationwide competition. Jill [...]
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Photo Announcements With The Marmalade Touch
Their are 2 things Pascale Pace and Alicia Johnson have in common. One is that they’re both moms. The other? They’re partners in business. Each woman brings their own special talent to the business which gives it the advantage it needs to continue it’s growth. Pascale and Alicia both believe that it’s important to give [...]
Kelly Timko has worn many hats in her lifetime. She was an assistant at NBC, she’s a mom and now she is a business owner. As the woman behind Uptown Tots, Kelly has two strong beliefs. The first being her feelings towards organic clothing for children. Beyond being better for our environment, organic clothing is [...]
Online Business and Common Sense
This guest post is by Alan Johnson. Online entrepreneurs try their best in order to come up with all sorts of complicated approaches when, in fact, they are overlooking the obvious in most cases. Common sense can and will get you far, no matter what kind of a project we are referring to. Let’s start [...]
Jooce, Global Internet Desktop
Businessweek.com: Paris startup Jooce has an idea: Instead of one laptop per child, why not many virtual desktops per public computer? Some people suggest perhaps the solution isn’t to put hardware into the hands of every person, but rather to maximize the number of people who have access to a PC. That’s the idea behind [...]
4 of the Youngest Entrepreneurs
Thedigeratilife.com: #1 Anshul Samar: Elementeo CEO Anshul Samar is a 13 year old student at Lawson Middle School in Cupertino. He’s also the articulate CEO of his gaming startup, Elementeo. His company is aiming to inject fun into learning with the creation of a fantasy role playing board game that teaches chemistry. So far, his [...]
Buzz Bites Chocolate Energy Chews Vending
Update 4/7/2009 Vroom Foods is no longer associated with Mad Dog Energy Products, but they can There’s more on the Vroom Foods website: As of September 12, 2008, Vroom Foods, Inc. terminated its relationship with Mad Dog Energy Products, Inc. If you are unable to obtain Buzz Bite® chocolate or mint chocolate energy chews, or [...]
Art Banners Go From Lamppost To Home
SFGate: Four years ago, an 8-foot-tall banner depicting Swedish ball bearings on a crimson field fluttered from a Manhattan light pole, touting the reopening of New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Today, it hangs in Peter Knockstead’s dining room in Washington. “It just spoke to me from a modern sense,” says Knockstead, events manager for [...]
Students Invent Vanishing Nail Polish
Daily Mail: A nail varnish that “vanishes” has been developed by a group of school pupils – offering girls the chance to beat bans on makeup. The nail colour is a vivid red outdoors – but inside it transforms to a much paler shade which can hardly be seen. The dramatic change is caused by [...]
You Don’t Have To Ditch The Day Job
BusinessWeek: In the beginning, it’s not always practical to dive into a Web startup full time, though eventually you will have to if you want it to succeed. Still, if you’re too poor or too unsure to do the right thing for your business and dive in full time, here are a few things that [...]
Teen’s Fly-Tying Business Also A Pleasure
The Dallas Morning News: During a telephone interview, Malic Poole, 14, sounds like a normal, smart, enthusiastic eighth-grader who loves fishing. One fact separates this young man from hundreds of other Dallas-area teenagers who also love to fish. Poole has his own tackle business, called Flies By Night. Though he does not fish with fly [...]
New Tool From Google Alarms Sites
The New York Times: Retailers and publishers have fought hard to work their way up in the ranking of Google’s search results and refine the search features of their own Web sites to help users once they arrive. Now, Google is taking a greater role in helping users search within particular sites. And some of [...]
