Archive for April 18th, 2008
NZHerald.co.nz: A Christchurch-based energy efficient lightbulb seller has raised $10 million from two Australian investors and is about to open its own lightbulb factory in China. Energy Mad, started by a pair of university mates just four years ago, has now expanded into Australia and the United States and has developed a product that it [...]
Style Cafe Mom's Celebrity Basket for Jessica Alba
PRWeb: After owning boutiques of their own and realizing the advertising needs of the work at home mom, sisters Becky Ocasio and Kimberly Morales, opened Style Cafe Moms in June of 2007, an online “resource cafe for the trendy mom”. Offering an array of services for a businesses advertising and promotional needs, however they still [...]
Topping My List Of "Neat Solutions"
Not just topping our tables they top the toilet, the floor, the changing table, and more. So what am I talking about? Neat Solutions, Inc., a mom-owned business that offers a series of products which are creative and something that many parents have probably wished they had for their kids when they were little. Beth, [...]
Mom Makes Her Business Supplying Yours
I write quite a bit about mom-owned businesses that are mostly online stores or handmade items. One mom took a different approach to starting a home business. Leslie Fraser helps others by supplying products for home and office use. From business cards to other accessories Divine Designs By Leslie offers a variety of products that [...]
d_skin: Simple Design, Super Market!
d_skin Protective Disc Skins are laser transparent films that protect your discs even while you play them (or burn them) without affecting music or video quality. This simple little invention definitely falls under the “why didn’t I think of that?” category. d_skins never have to be removed from your CD’s or DVD’s, they protect your [...]
Startups That Came Back From The Dead
Mashable: There is such a thing as recovery in the world of web 2.0. It doesn’t happen often, but it does happen; sometimes the catalyst is a new feature or option; sometimes the service was simply waiting to be discovered; and sometimes there’s no good reason at all; the tipping point appears out of nowhere. [...]
Inventors Digest: Ingenuity Expo will be held in collaboration with MIT on May 31, 2008 on the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This unique event will bring together inventors, students, and businesses to showcase their innovations, inventions, and ideas to a variety of entrepreneurs, investors, support services and respected journalists. Attendees have a unique opportunity [...]
Scare Prompts Mom To Invent Bracelet
Vancouver Sun: It took a personal scare five years ago to prompt Sarah Neal to start her new business. The 42-year-old Nanaimo resident was visiting a busy Calgary shopping mall in 2003 when she looked around and couldn’t see her three-year-old son. Although the boy had simply wandered off and was found a short time [...]
Fortune Small Business: Entrepreneur Maria Peevey has gone to the dogs, thanks to Wal-Mart. After the retail giant increased its order of her pet apparel and accessories late last year, annual revenues for Peevey’s San Francisco company, SimplyShe, jumped from $6 million in 2006 to $25 million in 2007. Peevey, 40, has created children’s and [...]
Associated Press: Hundreds of coffee-obsessed consumers chimed in moments after Starbucks Corp. launched a Web site asking customers to pitch changes the company should make to revive its struggling U.S. business. And they’ve kept those thoughts coming, by the thousands: Create a punch-card system with a free drink after so many purchases. Give people a [...]
Go That Extra Mile – Mary Kay Ash
YoungEntrepreneur.com: Most people live and die with their music still unplayed,” Mary Kay Ash once said. “They never dare to try.” Ash was not one of those people. Raised in a time when few women were in business, let alone successful in business, Ash broke down barriers on her rise up to creating a multi-billion [...]
