Archive for February 24th, 2009
Gilbert's 'Mompreneurs' Redefine Business
azcentral.com: Patrice Derbas has an “emergency distraction kit,” a Tupperware box filled with new toys, hidden at home to divert her 4-year-old twin girls Hailey and Adison while she can sit at the computer. Shelley Valdez waits until her 2-year-old daughter Alessandra naps to catch up on her email. Tisha Marie Pelletier, whose baby son, [...]
Daily Mercury: The smell of success is sweet for Deborah Allan and Eloise Leary. The new mothers, who both live in rural areas, faced a challenge when they wanted to re-enter the workforce but maintain family priorities. As an outdoor education instructor, Mrs Allan knew when she fell pregnant with her first child more than [...]
Inc.: The idea for Lingt Language came to MIT seniors Scot Frank and Chris Varenhorst while they were sitting in Chinese class. The students, who were preparing for trips abroad as part of the MIT-China program, found that their professors had little problem teaching the written language but, with 30 to 40 students in a [...]
Get Ready For the Government Spending Spree
The Wall Street Journal: Ready, set…..go win that federal contract. The government is expected to spend monstrous sums in coming months, based on the Senate and House stimulus plans: $16 billion for construction and renovation of schools, $9 billion to increase broadband, $40 billion for the development of cleaner and more efficient energy, and on [...]
MySpace Meets World of Warcraft
Inc.: Justin Yan joined Yale’s army the week he arrived in New Haven, Connecticut, as a freshman last fall. He proved himself first as a spy, infiltrating enemy lines up and down the Northeast. Then he was promoted to commander. “It was all downhill from there,” Yan says. “I was sucked in.” Yan is one [...]
The Four P’s for Growing a Business
USNews.com: If you are looking to grow or expand your business, where can you look? Start with the Four P’s of Marketing. Product: What else do your customers want? Promotion: How can you grow your existing customers’ awareness of your products, so they help you grow? Place: What other geographic areas make sense to serve? [...]
March Will Be Recession’s Tipping Point
Time: In March, a number of actions will occur that will be critical to demonstrating whether the economic disaster will get much worse. The first is that the issue of the nationalization of the banks may well be resolved. The debate about the issue has already hit a fevered pitch and if the first quarter [...]
