Archive for June 19th, 2008
Gardening was not something new to Annette, who has two generations of garden business owners behind her. So it’s no surprise that she would find a passion in gardening and a way to make this business something of her own. After all, The Happy Gardener is not the average gardening supply business. Taking all the [...]
Star News Group: JANELLE Rhodes’ burgeoning online business is bleeding $1000 a week after she was denied access to an ADSL broadband network when her family recently settled in Cranbourne. The Rhodes family moved into a Brooklyn Greens estate home last Sunday, but were soon told by Telstra that no ADSL ports were available at [...]
El Paso Mother Turns Passion For Jewelry Into Business
El Paso Times: A childhood interest has blossomed into an international business for Dora Barragan, 30, owner of Wicked Gems, a thriving jewelry business. “I’ve always dabbled with jewelry making,” Barragan said. “I started in Girl Scouts when I was a little girl, and from there it’s kind of been a love of mine.” Barragan, [...]
How Fast They Grow Debuts 54 New Templates From Pincushion
In the era of digital photography and Web 2.0, How Fast They Grow’s patent-pending Digi-Scrapbook technology has become one of the most talked-about new mom products this year. Today, HowFastTheyGrow.com debuts 54 design templates from Pincushion, a new company founded by Aimee deLongchamp of the San Francisco Bay Area. Aimee, a renowned Bay Area textile [...]
Are you one of those people that have a great business idea, but no money to make it happen? If so, this might be your chance to “Pitch” that big idea to real investors and make your dream come true. PerfectBusiness.com is announcing the 2008 National Pitch Challenge. The Challenge will search for the best [...]
Gardening was not something new to Annette, who has two generations of garden business owners behind her. So it’s no surprise that she would find a passion in gardening and a way to make this business something of her own. After all, The Happy Gardener is not the average gardening supply business. Taking all the [...]
Designing A Business: Sweet Boutique Design
At first glance someone might think there’s nothing to making a simple banner. You might be right, but if you want to make one that looks especially impressive it takes imagination, and a unique ability to work with some of the best graphic programs. Thankfully there are people like Stephanie from Sweet Boutique Design who [...]
Designing A Business: Sweet Boutique Design
At first glance someone might think there’s nothing to making a simple banner. You might be right, but if you want to make one that looks especially impressive it takes imagination, and a unique ability to work with some of the best graphic programs. Thankfully there are people like Stephanie from Sweet Boutique Design who [...]
The Wall Street Journal: Ideas are everywhere. It’s execution of good ideas — not the ideas themselves — that makes for successful businesses. That said, uncovering real opportunities and fleshing them out requires some foresight and research. Aspiring entrepreneurs should generally stick with industries or subjects they are already well-versed in, since they’ll then be [...]
Employees Buy Own Laptops, Phones For Work
USA Today: Many employees — frustrated that their companies are unwilling to pay for the laptops, cellphones and other electronic devices that they want on the road — are spending their own money to get them. Nearly 40% of professionals recently surveyed by researcher In-Stat paid for a laptop that they regularly carried. Cellphone users [...]
PR.com: The creator of Towelini, Susan McVety, came up with the idea while on vacation in Sand Key Beach, Florida. Tired of lugging a deluxe size beach towel to the beach every day, she eventually tried tying it around herself sarong style. The fashion and practicality of a wearable towel was obvious. “I felt so [...]
The Wall Street Journal: For entrepreneurs, the importance of picking the right name for a company may rank second only to naming a child. (And it’s lot more expensive to change.) Name consultants are paid millions each year to help decide what to call a company. San Francisco naming boutique Eat My Words has come [...]
In the Rubble, Chinese Get Back to Business
Wall Street Journal: The May 12 Sichuan earthquake left 19-year-old Yin Dan homeless. It also awakened the entrepreneur in her. When workmen started building temporary housing nearby last month, one wandered up the hill looking for a shave and a haircut. The chance encounter spurred Ms. Yin, who had been employed in a beauty shop, [...]
Rhonda Abrams at USA Today: Over the last couple of decades, few things have changed the landscape for small businesses as much as the advent of huge megastores. In communities across America, downtowns were shuttered once a Wal-Mart opened, and the friendly local hardware store had to close its doors when a Home Depot moved [...]
