Archive for May 6th, 2008
Personalized Note Cards As A Mom-Owned Business
Reasonable prices doesn’t always mean low quality and high prices don’t always mean high quality. Note Card Girl, by Carrie Hughes, is a mom-owned stationery business that tries to offer their stationery products at just the right cost for those looking for what she has to offer. Carrie offers a wide variety of products which [...]
Cutting Down The WAHM Work Week
Entrepreneur: To find more time for all of us, I just finished reading the 4-Hour Work Week by Timothy Ferris. At first, the concept seemed so unbelievable that I almost discounted it. But then my curiosity drew me back. Maybe he was on to something: He chooses a modified work week so he can “live [...]
Mother/Daughter Team Makes Good Business Sense
Journal Newspapers: Colleen Buck had retired from 30 years in the corporate world and was wondering what to do next. Her daughter Lorry Green had been working as a hair stylist for five years and wasn’t sure where her job was heading. Then one night at dinner, Green half-jokingly suggested they open a hair salon [...]
The Buffalo News: Jean Fasanello, wearing a chunky glass-beaded necklace of her own creation, sorts through baskets of product lining the bright yellow wall of her kitchen. For five years, this kitchen has been the headquarters of Hip, a specialty line of belts, headbands, jewelry and watches she designs and sells from her Clarence home. [...]
Grad Students Dream Up $1-a-Letter Web Site
Wired: Ready to taste envy? To burn with regret? Meet Paddy Donnelly and Lee Munroe. They’re selling words at a buck per letter. Donnelly, 22, and Munroe, 23 — graduate students at the University of Ulster-Belfast — dreamed up the Big Word Project while brainstorming a mass collaboration Web site that would let Donnelly use [...]
Paul Kedrosky Blog: There is a new report out from my friends at the Kauffman Foundation on precisely this question: The age (and education) of U.S. tech entrepreneurs. What is the distribution? How is it changing? Perhaps surprisingly, the report shows that U.S. tech entrepreneurs are, if anything, older than expected. People founding tech companies [...]
Solo Entrepreneur: Nick Bradbury
InformationWeek: One-person companies are earning upward of $1 million in revenue annually. How do they do it? With high-speed Internet connectivity, mobile apps, automation, and a little help from their customers. InformationWeek profiled one-person companies that are currently reaping more than $1 million in revenue annually. These businesses have a number of things in common. [...]
Entrepreneur: Excuses, excuses. I’ve heard them all. “It’s faster if I just do it myself.” “I’m afraid I’ll forget to tell them something important.” Sound familiar? You know that in order to grow your business, you need to grow your team. Yet as small-business owners, there’s something in us that fights against asking for help. [...]
Hard Times, But Your Lips Look Great
The New York Times: Last month, Betsy Stein made a beeline for Bloomingdale’s to buy a shirt, but the top she found was $280. Stein, told herself that in the current economic climate, she shouldn’t charge it. “With the scare of the downturn,” she said, “I decided to cut back on my shopaholic problem and [...]
