Archive for May 14th, 2008
We are a very diverse country. Residents of this country come from many other countries. So when Julia met her husband Bee while living in Thailand as a teacher she really did get to grow a love for things from that country. Before leaving her home there and moving to Maine where she’d grown up, [...]
A Network Site For Moms And The WAHMs
PR-USA.net: ccording to the Center for Women’s Business Research from December 2004, women own 10.6 million businesses in the United States accounting for $2.5 trillion in sales. What’s even better news is that number continues to rise each year as more and more moms come home to work. What do they need to make them [...]
WZTV FOX 17: Deena Pritchard, with Stroller Strides, is working out and working hard before 9:00 every morning. Pritchard owns a franchise of Stroller Strides, which allows her to bring her children to work while working out with other moms. She’s owned Stroller Strides for three years and admits most of the time, life for [...]
Suburban Newspapers: Eleven homeschooled students, ranging in age from 7 to 17, gathered in the Bellevue University Student Center for an Entrepreneurship Expo last Thursday. Janita Pavelka, a homeschool teacher and licensed entrepreneurship instructor, said a lot of time and care went into the students’ presentations. “One of my students said to me, ‘This is [...]
Entrepreneur churns out ice cream
Stamford Advocate: During his summer breaks from college, Ben Van Leeuwen drove a Good Humor ice cream truck through the streets of Greenwich, dishing out tasty treats and making money. Today, at 24, he is back. But this time he’s driving his own custom-made yellow ice cream truck and carrying his newly launched brand of [...]
Hillvertising: A New Innovative Type of Hull Advertising
Yahoo Biz: Thomas Kager, an Austrian entrepreneur, has recently developed the idea of “Hillvertising”. A marriage of the two words ‘hill’ and ‘advertising’, Hillvertising is a new and innovative way of selling advertising space both online and outdoors. Kager’s idea is to market squares of virtual advertising space on his website to companies and individuals [...]
'Gold Parties' Cash In On Metal's High Price
ABC News: Oil tops a record $120 a barrel? Bad news. Gold reaches a stunning $1,000 an ounce? Potentially very good news indeed. Especially to Paige Rhodes, 40, of Alexandria, who has heaps of unwanted gold baubles cluttering up her jewelry boxes. Rather than wait for bold gold to come back in fashion — a [...]
‘Gold Parties’ Cash In On Metal’s High Price
ABC News: Oil tops a record $120 a barrel? Bad news. Gold reaches a stunning $1,000 an ounce? Potentially very good news indeed. Especially to Paige Rhodes, 40, of Alexandria, who has heaps of unwanted gold baubles cluttering up her jewelry boxes. Rather than wait for bold gold to come back in fashion — a [...]
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The New York Times: We are entering an age governed by changes in leisure patterns. Workplaces and businesses will evolve to accommodate and capitalize on the 77 million baby boomers who will, in increasing numbers, have excess time on their hands. Recently, I came across the work of Alison Link, whose work with people who [...]
Springwise: South-Korean product designer Hanyoung Lee has come up with a safety device that could make traffic lights obsolete, or at least improve their effectiveness. His so-called Virtual Wall is designed for busy city streets. Instead of showing a red light when it’s time for pedestrians to cross the street, Lee’s Wall projects a curtain-like, [...]
Secrets of Success: Sir Richard Branson
BusinessWeek: After launching his first business at 16, a magazine called Student, Branson went on to establish a mail-order record business that turned into a chain of music shops and eventually became Virgin Megastores. Today, Virgin has grown to include some 250 companies, including airlines and mobile phones. Last year, Branson launched Virgin America, a [...]
Biz Resource: Calculating Website Profitability
Killer Startups: Whether you are an Internet entrepreneur or investor, determining the profitability of a website will be much easier with Bizak.com, a site that computes the valuation and profitability of Internet startups. The data calculated for each startup includes revenues per visitor, costs per visitor, earnings (profit/loss), earnings per visitor, and valuation. Bizak is [...]
Classroom Path To Entrepreneurship
The New York Times: The college campus, it turns out, can be an ideal incubator for hatching small businesses. Nanina’s Gourmet Sauce, a pasta sauce company based in Belleville, N.J., was started, for instance, in 2005 by students taking an entrepreneurship course at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, N.J. Nanina’s products are now sold [...]
