Archive for December 17th, 2008
Mompreneurs Add Some Bounce To Their Lives
LSJ.com: Kelly Ramirez and Joan Blackmer, local wives and mothers, remember when they were kids and could safely play outside for hours. The two women decided kids today don’t have the same outdoor play opportunities they did, so they decided to create a business to help kids burn calories, and at the same time give [...]
Chugiak Mom & Daughter Open Alaska's First Fair-Trade Store
Alaska Star: Mother-and-daughter team Jill and Liz Dean opened Grassroots: A Fair Trade Store about a month and a half ago in Anchorage. Jill, a Chugiak resident for 20 years, owns the business. Her 18-year-old daughter and spring 2008 Chugiak High School graduate, Liz, manages the store. The shop’s shelves and tables are laden with [...]
YouTube Videos Pull In Real Money
The New York Times: Making videos for YouTube — for three years a pastime for millions of Web surfers — is now a way to make a living. One year after YouTube, the online video powerhouse, invited members to become “partners” and added advertising to their videos, the most successful users are earning six-figure incomes [...]
The Best Biz Books of 2008 – X Saves the World
Fast Company: This arch, funny meditation on the “forgotten” generation wedged between baby boomers and millennials tells the story of being liberated by being underestimated. You could do worse than Stephen Colbert, YouTube, and some guy named Barack Obama as proof that GenX may, in fact, be changing the world. Photo by Viking.
Your Christmas Tree Is In The Mail
The Wall Street Journal: For some holiday revelers, bringing home the perfect Christmas tree is a cherished tradition, right down to strapping the green behemoth to the family sedan and hauling it through the front door. But for others, it’s a task better left to the UPS guy. As tradition-defying as it may seem, buying [...]
First Jobs Of Richest American Entrepreneurs
The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur: John D. Rockefeller, Greatest Wealth – $318 Billion at age 74, First Job – Book keeper Warren Buffet, Greatest Wealth – $62 Billion at age 77, First Job – Newspaper delivery boy Bill Gates, Greatest Wealth – $57 Billion at age 53, First Job – Congressional page Sergey Brin, Greatest Wealth [...]
Small Stores Find Ways To Drum Up Traffic
The New York Times: The owner of a futon store outside San Francisco started running comedy shows. A comic book shop in Florida held art shows. And a lingerie shop in New Mexico is planning a men’s night later this month. Small businesses are always searching for ways to differentiate themselves. But with fewer people [...]
