Archive for July 2008
LFPress: Baby, take off your coat, your shoes, whatever — but if you’ve shopped at Billy Thomson’s downtown store, you can definitely leave your hat on. Your hat, after all, may be the best part of your outfit. From Ed Hardy (grafitti) hats to Castro-style headwear and stylish new versions of everything from cowboy to [...]
For Entrepreneur, Toffee Business is Sweet
CentreDaily: As Janet Long found out, mom does know best. With her mom’s secret recipe in hand, Janet incorporated Elaine’s Toffee Co. three years ago with her dad and two sisters. In no time at all, the San Francisco-based toffee business was booming, and continues to experience strong growth with an expanded national distribution network [...]
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Mouse Trap Monitor Office Prank
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Facebook and Youtube Banned For Polish Police
From Yahoo.com WARSAW (Reuters) – Poland’s national police headquarters has banned officers from using a popular social networking site similar to Facebook because they were spending too much time using it, a newspaper said Monday. “Like many firms, we decided the site Nasza-klasa.pl is not essential for our employees to fulfill their professional duties,” the [...]
silive.com: Elaine R. Bellamy-Noseworthy is a wife, the mother of two young children — and an inventor. While growing up in Annadale, she could not have possibly considered the creation of her now patent-pending baby-bottle holder because she simply had no need for it. The plastic Bottle Buggy is like an extra set of hands [...]
Gingerly Dressed Celebrates Open House, Entrepreneurs
Blount Today: Ginger Pettit opened the doors of her fairly new shop last month for a special Open House to celebrate the entrepreneurs who make her business different. Gingerly Dressed, located on Gill Street in Alcoa, hosted an evening for moms and dads who love something a little different to come and meet designers and [...]
Tapping The Creativity Of Downtime
The Wall Street Journal: In its early days, Chris Wallace’s company didn’t always have enough work to keep its staff fully occupied designing interactive Web sites for clients. But it didn’t want to lose any talent. So he and his co-founders decided to tell employees they could pursue their own interests in their downtime, doing [...]
Moms Can Have It All – They Just Can't Do It All
MSNBC: The mom entrepreneur needs to work smarter. It’s not enough to get things done. You need to get the right things done. A very small part of what you do will have a profound impact on your family or your business. So take an inventory of everything that needs to get done and commit [...]
How many women have spent time driving themselves crazy over things like their weight, how much they eat, counting calories, and all those other self-esteem killers? There are 2 women in particular, Sarah and Amanda, that have been there and done that. When one of them were thinking about having a child, they didn’t want [...]
Commercial-News: Monica Williams, a medical doctor, can now add to her accomplishments a pending patent for an invention called Pacimals — stuffed animals with built-in pacifiers. Her invention came about less than two years ago, when her then-2-month-old daughter, Mackenzie Smith, gave her an idea. Monica had first noticed in the hospital that nurses would [...]
Why You Should Start Your Own Biz Today
Success Magazine: John was 53 when the bad news hit. His department was being moved offshore. Since joining the company eight years earlier, he had worked his way up to a solid position in middle management with a decent salary and great benefits. Now, he was out of a job. Having spent his entire adult [...]
Asking Prices For Small Bizs On Decline
The Dallas Morning News: To all the usual reasons that small businesses are put up for sale – personal problems and personnel squabbles among them – add economic woes this year. But even as for-sale listings rise around the country, so is buyer interest. “When economic times get tough and people can’t find a job, [...]
Firearm Storage Is Made For All Gun Owners
Gun safety is something that gets discussed a lot, whether is locally or nationally. Those who have guns or use them want to make sure they will remain safe. Whether it’s in a home with little fingers, or safe from potential theft. Don Graham took his own needs and was able to formulate a gun [...]
The New York Times: To go shopping these days, more Americans are trading in their car keys for a keyboard. Online shopping is gaining at a time when simply filling up a gas tank to head to the mall can seem like a spending spree. A number of retailers — including Gap, Victoria’s Secret and [...]
Dorm-Room Bizs That Made It Big
College Startup: Your laptop is your shop. You store your inventory in your dorm room. You cooked up your idea in your backyard. Or the basement. It’s a tiny endeavor, yes. You may not know where it’ll end up when college is done. Not for sure, anyway. But students like you became Silicon Valley’s most [...]
NorthBay Nugget: Persistence is the key to succeeding as a young entrepreneur, says Christian Prost, owner of the Northriders bike store. Prost started his business at the King Street Plaza three years ago with help from the Canadian Youth Business Foundation. “My, what a scary feeling it was,” Prost said, remembering the anxiety of taking [...]
People who love feet will love Foot Solutions and their franchise opportunity. Certified by Board Certified Pedorthists (BCP), franchisees are also given the exam to make sure their own businesses stay BCP as well. The products are attractive to all kinds of people, creating a large potential customer base in many areas. They do not [...]
A picture framing business that has gained media coverage by giving customers a free orange is being used to help entrepreneurs throughout the world understand how they can improve their PR presence. Martin Tracy, owner of The Framing Workshop juices the oranges for his own drinks since he avoids tea or coffee. So he put [...]
Invention Promises Cleaner Food
WBAY-TV: Despite the government giving consumers the okay to eat tomatoes, lawmakers on Capitol Hill are calling for tougher oversight when it comes to food safety. The initiative follows what health experts call the worst case of food-borne illness in a decade. The reality of tainted food prompted a Green Bay company to invent a [...]
Fix It Up. Flip It. Now It’s Web Sites, Not Houses
The New York Times: Dave Hermansen did not own a bird or a cage when he bought bird-cage.com, an online store, for $1,800 three years ago. He simply saw a Web site that was “very, very poorly done,” and begged the owners to sell it to him. He then redesigned the site, added advertising and [...]
Amazon Unveils New Web Site Payment Services
AppScout: Amazon unveiled two new payment options that allow Web site owners to shift payment transactions to the online retailer. With Checkout by Amazon, webmasters will get help from Amazon in managing shipping charges, sales tax, promotions, and post-sale activities including shipments, refunds, cancellations, and charge backs. Amazon Simple Pay, meanwhile, is a less complicated [...]
From Yahoo.com NEW YORK – New York City doorman Richie Randazzo had said he wouldn’t quit his day job after winning a $5 million lottery, and he didn’t. He got fired. A spokesman for the union representing apartment building workers says Randazzo notified the union’s grievance center on Tuesday that he had been shown the [...]
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Ancaster Moms Blaze Online Trail
TheSpec.com: If you can raise a couple of rascals, chances are you can do anything. That seems to be the case for Ancaster entrepreneurs Kathleen Malarczuk and Coreen Sullivan. The two launched an online retail store, raisingrascals.com, in May and were quickly filling out orders from Ontario, California and Australia. Then another entrepreneur Down Under [...]
SAHMs Start Business After Frustration At Stores
rrstar.com: Just outside Gretchen Schwalbach’s front door, two shoulder-high topiaries are draped with strips of funky fabric, lying in that casual-yet-just-so way that makes Martha Stewart fans swoon. And then, when Schwalbach waves a hand at the topiaries and admits they’re just “leftover scraps,” you know you’re dealing with a home décor goddess whose talents [...]
BCLocalNews.com: Drowning in dirty diapers, Rebecca Miller-Ouellette knew she wanted to go back to work. But as a new mom she faced the same question that all new moms face; do I stay at home, or do I go back to work. More importantly, can I afford to stay home? “A lot of moms can’t [...]
SippiGrip Solves Sippy Tossing Problems
There was only so many times this mom could stand her son throwing his sippy cup on the ground. Tired of fetching it off the ground, and the cup constantly getting dirty, she did something about it. Sari Crevin invented the SippiGrip in response. Passing it out at a mom’s group that she was a [...]
Skirts With Flair For Every Woman
Frenchie may share the same name as the girl from Grease, but by looking at her creations it’s easy to see why she is a success. Her Frenchie Skirts are made for each individual woman. Whether they’re looking for a skirt that is made for a fancy night out on the town or just for [...]
Youthful Entrepreneur Starts Own Jewelry Line
The Gazette: In the world of jewelry, everyone is always looking for the right piece to complement an outfit or just to stand out. Nineteen-year-old Lucy Wright of Fort Washington wants to help customers find the right jewelry piece and for a great price too with her own line, Lucy’s Jewelry Box. Wright’s jewelry line [...]
From Invention To Household Name Long And Rocky Road
Daily Chronicle: It’s a common dream. One day, you’ll invent “The Next Big Thing.” You’ll get a patent, they’ll sell like crazy, and you’ll make millions. It could happen. But not overnight. “The process began for me in 2001, and I’m still looking for licensing. This is not something to do if you’re looking for [...]
Booming Biz Helps Patients Navigate Medicine
Associated Press: After three surgeries, Judy Sherer still had chronic pain in her left shoulder. She’d lost faith in her doctors, and in despair tried a new health benefit offered by her employer. The service, Health Advocate, is a call-in center that helps customers find the right doctor, haggle over insurance coverage and manage other [...]
GigaOM: Clever founders always eke the most out of every buck. But economic conditions being what they are, even the best bootstrappers could use a little extra help. 1. Phone Service/Wireless Plans Carriers make it hard to do head-to-head comparisons of their plans. BillShrink.com will help you find the cheapest plan for your immediate needs, [...]
If You Have A Problem, Ask Everyone
The New York Times: John Davis, a chemist in Bloomington, Ill., knows about concrete. For example, he knows that if you keep concrete vibrating it won’t set up before you can use it. It will still pour like a liquid. Now he has applied that knowledge to a seemingly unrelated problem thousands of miles away. [...]
Design Boom: In 1978, Cy-Fair High School, where Geral Fauss taught, made their way to the state football finals. Fauss created the #1 hand to match team spirit with profits to earn funds for the school’s industrial arts club. He designed the hands so that the students could actually be involved in producing them in [...]
Story from Anaova.com A US man has been rejected in his bid to become a police officer for scoring too high on an intelligence test. Robert Jordan, a 49-year-old college graduate, took an exam to join the New London police, in Connecticut, in 1996 and scored 33 points, the equivalent of an IQ of 125. [...]
Is Time Right To Become Own Boss?
St. Petersburg Times: Maybe you’ve thought about starting a business for years. Or maybe you’re considering this route because of an impending job loss as the economy continues to falter. 1. Devise a plan of attack. Before venturing too far, make sure a market exists for your product or service. 2. Could you fly solo? [...]
Woman Sees Her Invention, Dream Become Reality
Kingsburg Recorder: The dream to invent the next can’t-live-without-it product is one that many people harbor, but for most would-be inventors, the idea never reaches beyond the scope of the imagination. But a woman whose career in hair has invented what may just prove to be the next big thing in hair. Kelly Fitzpatrick, mother [...]
Cash Flow A Measurement For Your Home Biz
Frank Ross At All Business: If you are experiencing problems in your home based business due to the economic conditions (or any other reasons), have you measured exactly how bad it is? Metrics can give you an indication as to whether it just seems bad or there really is a problem. The most crucial thing [...]
