Archive for March 31st, 2008
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City Grounds Is Dream Business For New Owner
KCCommunityNews: Raytown resident Inge Howard has always wanted to own a business. Her dream came true when she purchased City Grounds Coffee Shop, at 6200 Raytown Trafficway, Feb. 26. “My first job I ever had worked at was McDonald’s,” Howard said. “I always thought I needed my own franchise. It was always so expensive. When [...]
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Vera Sweeney Rises To The Top With Celebrity Gossip
Newsday.com: As a stay-at-home mom living in Garden City with two babies, Vera Sweeney needed an outlet, a place to pour her creative energy, a place to indulge her obsession with celebrity gossip. She might’ve been perfectly satisfied reading about Britney and Paris and Lindsay and BCBG and fitted jeans on somebody’s Web site. Instead, [...]
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Baby Carriers For Your Little "Puj"
Katie Richardson is not the average mom. Having met her husband in college, Katie and Ben are both designers. When they decided they wanted to have children it was Katie that decided that she wanted to stay home to raise her kids. She didn’t let that stop her from designing still. Instead of designing under [...]
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Mom 4 Life Takes On Parenthood One Product At A Time
Having opened shop in October of 2003, Heather has seen her online store grow by leaps and bounds. Going from a small cash investment to having a more than enough product for visitors to her boutique to choose from goes to show the success she has had in the past 4+ years. Heather also makes [...]
Starscapes: In The Business Of A Starry Night
People who love stargazing have the opportunity to turn that love into a business of their own. Starscapes is one of the more unique ways available to make money. A custom painted mural business, Starscapes is a business that sells murals that are painted by an “Artist-Illusionist”. These starry night skies can be painted on [...]
If anyone was going to be the most aware of what food allergies exist, it would be the parent of a child that has them. When Robyn O’Brien’s fourth child was diagnosed with food allergies that sent her on a track that she wasn’t about to be shaken off of. Launching AllergyKids on Mothers Day [...]
Scrabulous Successful Scrabble Facebook Application
CTV.ca: According to its Facebook profile “Scrabulous is a cool application,” one that lets you “invite your friends” to play and is “the best word game!” After listening to the game’s co-creator Jayant Agarwalla speak on his brainchild for an hour, it became apparent that this succinct, yet hyperbolic statement may in fact be very [...]
cm-life.com Emily Turbiak’s “Hands on Handbags” might someday put women hoping to choose the perfect purse or handbag at ease. The Livonia sophomore received a $500 cash prize in the Labelle Entrepreneurial Center’s “Make a Pitch” competition Thursday in Grawn 100 for her web page-based custom handbag business idea. “The average person changes (handbags) three [...]
Simplifying The Babysitter Finding Process
Finding the right babysitter isn’t always that simple. Parents want to make sure the person who will be caring for their child is a responsible person and will not treat their kids in a way that would be inappropriate. The Seeking Sitters franchise opportunity gives moms and dads the chance to turn the process of [...]
Edison …Wasn’t He the Guy Who Invented Everything?
The New York Times: Invention may be mothered by necessity. But determining the father can require a paternity test. Take the sound recording. Researchers said last week that they had discovered a recording of a human voice, made by a little-known Frenchman two decades before Thomas Edison’s invention of the phonograph. An unusual case of [...]
Forget Tupperware; It’s Taser Party Time
Associated Press: Before she lets them shoot her little pink stun gun, Dana Shafman ushers her new friends to the living room sofa for a serious chat about the fears she believes they all share. “The worst nightmare for me is, while I’m sleeping, someone coming in my home,” Shafman tells the group, drawing a [...]
Unlikely Places For Eureka Moments: Television
Wired: Philo Farnsworth Inventor Rigby, Idaho, 1921 While plowing a field at age 14, Farnsworth — who had been studying electrons and vacuum tubes — looked out across the even furrows and was struck with an idea. He could project moving images line by line, and the eye would stitch them together: “I have abandoned [...]
Mom 4 Life Takes On Parenthood One Product At A Time
Having opened shop in October of 2003, Heather has seen her online store grow by leaps and bounds. Going from a small cash investment to having a more than enough product for visitors to her boutique to choose from goes to show the success she has had in the past 4+ years. Heather also makes [...]
BusinessWeek: US Magazine has a section called “Just Like Us!” that showcases celebrities who are unwittingly photographed doing chores readers recognize from their own, less glamorous existences. “Britney carries groceries!” “J-Lo changes diapers!” We all know that by dint of their fame and fortune, these stars are nothing like us at all. Here’s another way [...]
The New York Times: Herb Peterson, who invented the Egg McMuffin as a way to introduce breakfast to McDonald’s restaurants, died at his home in Santa Barbara, Calif. He was 89. Peterson came up with the idea for the menu item, the signature McDonald’s breakfast dish, in 1972. The Egg McMuffin made its debut at [...]
