Archive for July 18th, 2008
Young Entrepreneur Creates Ride Share Website
Greenwich Times: To launch his first company, 24-year-old Cos Cob native John Zimmer is taking a road trip. Zimmer, a 2002 graduate of Greenwich High School, has embarked on a cross-country journey from New York City to the West Coast, part of an effort to promote his new online ride-sharing service, Zimride.com. Ride-sharing is “easy, [...]
Student Drops Out to Create Tourist Guide
Japan Times: Jane Fong quit Sophia University in March last year, changed her student visa to a working visa and established GI Jane Inc., a comprehensive Akihabara information company, that July. She and seven others invested ¥7.7 million to open a small office in Japan’s biggest “electric town.” The company creates Akihabara maps, posts news [...]
Open Giveaways – My Baby Pajamas and Wet Happened?
We have 2 giveaways that will be ending soon, now is the time to get in on the opportunity to win before it is too late. 1. If you’d like a pair of children’s pajamas for your child, you have until July 20th at 11:59pm to enter to win a pair from My Baby Pajama’s. [...]
Couples Painting Business Continues To Grow
thestarpress.com: A team now in more ways than one, Lydia and Chris run Underwood’s Fine Finishes. A single mom in between jobs, Lydia (Kaderly) Underwood hardly seemed the type to open a business a few short years ago. But she did. “My dad encouraged me,” said Lydia, who subsequently found a partner for her specialty [...]
Once Homeless Runaway, Mom Now A Triathlete
East Valley Tribune: A childhood of homelessness, starvation and illness doesn’t make for stand-up comedy, but Lisa Ann Oliveira has turned her life into a stream of schtick. It all falls under her new life philosophy: “There are no victims, only volunteers.” For the past two years, the Scottsdale real estate agent and single mom [...]
For She-Bloggers, Does It Take A Village To Profit?
C|Net: Just three years ago, she was one of “three chicks with credit cards” trying to form a consortium of female bloggers. Now, former CNN journalist Lisa Stone is championing a network of 2,200 blogs in a fresh strategic partnership with iVillage, taking on a new $5 million investment from iVillage-parent NBC Universal, and playing [...]
Before she had a family, she had her fuzzy friends. Then she met the man who would become her husband and when she had her son, she decided she wanted to become a full time mom, and start up her own business; Camp Run-A-Pup Doggie Day Camp. Wanting to make sure her day camp would [...]
It’s Friday, so here’s some fun. Five guys and a gal got together and created this Rube Goldberg-like invention to do the simple task of opening the curtains in their home. Watch the video. Do you have a favorite section?…like the slinky going down the stairs, or the cellphone vibrating, or how about the chess [...]
Australian Websites To Get Ratings For Content, Age
Arstechnica: Websites originating in Australia will soon be subject to a rating system that will tell users whether the content is appropriate for children of different ages. The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) announced today that it has approved what it’s referring to as the “Content Services Code”—an addition to the Broadcasting Act 1992—and [...]
Springwise: Originally launched back in 2004, Mather’s—More Than a Café is a chain of three Chicagoland cafes operated by Illinois-based Mather LifeWays, a nonprofit dedicated to helping seniors age well. Offering a combination of restaurant, gathering place, fitness and educational center, each Mather’s locale is essentially a neighbourhood being space for seniors that aims to [...]
Personalized Pacifiers Add Personality To Business
Those who have a child in daycare are most likely to have experienced the exact same situation as Pia Callesen did with her son. Many times when she’d show up to pick up her son he’d have someone else’s pacifier in his mouth and his would be nowhere to be found. Determined to find a [...]
Personalized Pacifiers Add Personality To Business
Those who have a child in daycare are most likely to have experienced the exact same situation as Pia Callesen did with her son. Many times when she’d show up to pick up her son he’d have someone else’s pacifier in his mouth and his would be nowhere to be found. Determined to find a [...]
AllBusiness.com: If your home based business has a website (and most likely it does) have you tested it lately? Testing a website involves many things and you probably don’t want to get bogged down on the process of testing. But at the same time, it’s important to test a website periodically to make sure the [...]
