Archive for April 11th, 2008
It's A Polka Dot World Where Sally Lives
If you love polka dots, then you’d love Polka Dot Market. Sally makes a variety of homemade polka dotted items. From bags to clothing. Running the business with her husband, her website was started in in 2004. It wasn’t long after the birth of her first daughter. Sally has definitely been all over. Born and [...]
Silicon Valley Mompreneurs Launch "from: Everyone"
MarketWire: With end-of-year teacher and graduation gifts, spring holidays and bridal season around the corner, Silicon Valley mompreneurs Paula Cho and Michelle Nieda today launched the first hassle-free group gift service online called from: Everyone. from: Everyone is an easy-to-use online service for anyone who wants to collect individual contributions toward the purchase of a [...]
WAHM Speed Bumps We Can Relate To
Many moms who work from home can understand what it’s like trying to get in a business call with a child in the background. That’s why Kimberly’s story is so easy to relate to for many of us. Thanks to the mompreneur boom, though, it’s becoming more widely accepted. CapeCodTimes.com: If you’ve ever worked from [...]
6 Questions For Inventor Dean Kamen
Popular Mechanics: He’s certainly best known for inventing the Segway in 2001, but before that Dean Kamen had already come up with a stair-climbing wheelchair called the iBOT—not to mention lightweight medical devices to grant mobility to cancer and diabetes patients. He’s been developing breakthrough technologies for improving lives in the poorest parts of the [...]
Outsourcing Helps Small Biz Look Big
BusinessTN.com: Far too often, growth for a small business is hampered by limited resources. There may not be enough local experts to hire or not enough money to afford them. But you don’t have to go it alone. Outsourcing for small businesses can save time and money, of which the small business owner often has [...]
Using Human Touch To Solve Problems
The New York Times: A small company in Jacksonville, Fla., came up with a novel — and sensitive — solution when two crucial employees had trouble making the commute to its new headquarters across town. As Derek Mercer, the founder and chief executive of the company, Vurv Technology, tells it, the employees’ supervisor came to [...]
They Took A Chance, Found A Niche
Star Tribune: Jobless after the dot-com bust, friends Gillett Cole and Jim Myers pooled energies and earnings from a summer job to create their company, Twin Cities Closet Co., which provides creative ways to use storage space. Deposit check in hand, Twin Cities Closet Co. founders Jim Myers and Gillett Cole celebrated their first order [...]
Herald Tribune: You know you are in the wrong line of work when someone sells a cornflake on eBay for $1,350. Two Virginia sisters got someone to buy the cornflake because it vaguely resembles the outline of the state of Illinois. The 15-year-old sister said she was stuffing dry Frosted Flakes into her mouth between [...]
