Archive for July 9th, 2008
PalmBeachPost: After graduating from Carnegie-Mellon University, young American entrepreneur Justin Fidler scoured the Earth for the perfect place to open a high-tech company. After eliminating Western Europe as too costly, he looked at Eastern Europe: Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic. But it seemed to Fidler that, “if you can buy bagels in Prague, then [...]
Never Too Late to be an Entrepreneur
PostStar: Karen Rosick calls her mother-in-law an “extraordinary woman,” and why shouldn’t she? At 80 years old, Rose Rosick isn’t spending her retirement traveling the world or playing golf. Instead, the bright-eyed lady with alabaster locks is running her own business — one that requires her to be comfortable not only with computers, but machines [...]
Utah Woman Creates Stay At Home Business
ksl.com: A lot of parents would love to find a job that allows them to be home with their children. One Utah woman has done just that. Kristi Hilbert owns Visioncorp., a company that provides technical writing and documentation to high-tech firms across the state. She began her career at Novell and expected to give [...]
Florida HomeLINK CEO Named Finalist for BusinessWoman of the Year
dBusinessNews: Pamela Kauten, chief executive of Florida HomeLINK, an online service that connects home buyers with realtors in the communities in which they are looking for homes, has been chosen as a finalist for the Tampa Bay Business Journal’s 2008 BusinessWoman of the Year Awards. The Awards presentation and gala will take place on Friday, [...]
Mompreneur Hits Pay Dirt After Losing It All
Weekend Entrepreneur: For Las Vegas entrepreneur Richelle Shaw, dating three men in three cities didn’t add up to a winning proposition at first. No, this isn’t a Sex and the City rerun; it really happened and, after a few major bumps in the road, there is a happy ending. Forty-year-old Richelle Shaw has a green [...]
All Natural Baby Products From Nature's Baby
For Adena it didn’t start off as a business. It was a necessity. When her 1 year old daughter broke out in a rash all over her body, she found herself sitting in front of the computer researching each ingredient in a variety of products trying to pin-point which one would have caused the rash. [...]
Is College Worth It For Entrepreneurs?
US News: There’s no law saying you have to go to college to start a business. There’s also a carrot and a stick that might lead entrepreneurial minded members of Generation Y to want to skip college. The stick is that hiring prospects might be grimmer than they thought. The carrot? All the examples of [...]
When Your ‘Unique’ Biz Idea Is Already Taken
College Startup: Let’s pretend that you started the new and exciting business of making scarves for people’s pets. Eventually, your neighbor decides to do that for himself. And so does your (former) best friend. Suddenly, the neighborhood pets are dizzy from the choices. Your business idea will get stolen. It can be re-hashed and repackaged [...]
The Dog Who Breathed A New Biz
The New York Times: Who would have thought that a middle-age couple who held government jobs and were a tad unsure what an entrepreneur was would make a small fortune from their beloved dog’s bad breath? Joe and Judy Roetheli (pronounced RATE-lee) of Kansas City, Mo., founders of S&M NuTec, maker of Greenies dog treats, [...]
To be able to receive the best night’s sleep, we want our children to be comfortable. They sleep well, and we sleep well. That’s why parents want the best, and most affordable, sleepwear possible. Linda Levine has taken a step to make sure people are able to find children’s pajamas with those qualities through her [...]
To be able to receive the best night’s sleep, we want our children to be comfortable. They sleep well, and we sleep well. That’s why parents want the best, and most affordable, sleepwear possible. Linda Levine has taken a step to make sure people are able to find children’s pajamas with those qualities through her [...]
Inventors Get Ideas, Make Them Reality
Record-Eagle.com: Back when they were students at Bertha Vos Elementary, Keith Nielson, Kevin Vann and Tom Hills liked to take things apart to see how they worked. Now the friends are designing and manufacturing their own products through their fledgling company, Foresight Design Group. “It’s something we’ve done in our spare time,” said Nielson, 29, [...]
Copyright Office Discovers Online Submissions
Arstechnica: Given the fact that copyright has become an unlikely new rallying point for the digital culture wars, you might think that the Copyright Office itself would be the sort of place that’s been accepting online submissions for years. You’d be wrong. The Copyright Office uses the web solely to offer its federal forms, which [...]
Biz Resource: Public Library Card
Small Business Idea: Entrepreneurs have an insatiable thirst for novelty and information. Quench this thirst with a library card instead of your wallet. You can still buy items for your personal library later on (items you’ve checked out of the library 3 times), but 90% of the stuff you buy or think you want you’ll [...]
