Archive for April 2nd, 2008
Teen’s Dog Business Wins Prince’s Trust Support
Horncastle News: Belinda Truepenny (19) from Raithby has launched her own dog walking and animal care business – Patter Paws – with backing from The Prince’s Trust, which has provided her with a £750 loan, and £750 grant. Animal lover Belinda, who holds a National Diploma in animal management, wants to concentrate her business in [...]
Mom Offers An Extra Hour, For A Price
ArgusLeader.com: A CPA, she works full time, has two pre-school children, a husband and a house. Her to-do list is long: Job, kids, housework, shopping, chauffeuring and spending time with her spouse, parents, siblings and friends. Then there’s exercise and hobbies. Relaxation doesn’t make the cut. She’s not alone. “There are really a lot of [...]
Mom's Store Offers Hard-To-Find Children Things
The Sudbury Star: A Greater Sudbury new mom who had trouble finding a shoe to give proper support to her young son’s ankle last year, she had to go all the way to Barrie to find the high-top walking leather shoes her specialist called for. The shoes, which were needed to help prevent any future [...]
Four Moms Leave Big Dallas Firm To Start Female-Owned Firm
NBC5i.com: Jane Taber, Dawn Estes, Jessica Thorne and Lori Carr said together they have more than 70 years of large firm legal experience. “By the very nature that we’re all female we certainly have that sisterhood, and I think we feel the same way and it also lets us serve clients in a different way,” [...]
Finding Your Next Big Business Idea
JoshauSaunders: The best way to think of an idea is to consider things that upset you or cause problems in your daily life. Don’t think of products, think of problems. Come up with answers to the following: – What frustrates you? – What things slow you down or cause bottlenecks? – In your everyday life, [...]
Recipe For Creating New Products
Sloan Review: When it comes to brand extension, the conventional wisdom is simple: Don’t overextend. The idea is that companies should stay within established product lines to avoid dilution of the brand identity. After all, it makes intuitive sense not to diversify into categories that are remote to core products. To rejuvenate established product families, [...]
Everyday Edisons: After a successful Dallas casting call, Everyday Edisons is heading to Chicago to see what the Windy City has to offer. Date: Saturday, April 19, 2008 Where: McCormick Place, South Building; 2301 S. Lake Shore Drive; Chicago, IL 60616 When: Doors open at 7 a.m. As long as you make it to the [...]
Unlikely Places For Eureka Moments: Peer-To-Peer File Sharing
Wired: Shawn Fanning Founder of Napster Kennedy Hall, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts “My roommate had a bunch of friends from back home come visit. They asked him how he got this insane music collection — he was particularly into obscure rap–and there was no easy way to describe how to do it. It was pretty [...]
Start-Up Clears Up Auto Lights
Chattanooga Times Free Press: Unlike many entrepreneurs, Chris Watts’ biggest challenge is not financial. As he launches a business restoring car headlights, the biggest hurdle Watts faces is informing consumers about the service he offers. Headlight Renew Doctor promises to take cloudy, yellowed car headlights and, using a technique he developed, “renew” them for a [...]
Turning Your Small Biz Into a Corporation
U.S. News & World Report: Scott Shane, an economics professor at Case Western Reserve University, discusses in his recent book The Illusions of Entrepreneurship the most recent data show that only about half of self-employed people in the U.S. workforce run incorporated businesses. But Shane argues that entrepreneurs who fail to incorporate are making a [...]
