Archive for March 5th, 2009
Parenthood Has Never Been This Fashionable
How many people can say they’ve encountered a diaper bag that was gorgeous enough to be a handbag too? Apparently anyone who has purchased one of the bags sold through Maelee Baby. Lindsay has given her line of diaper bags a look on the outside which would fool any untrained eye. However, the real treat [...]
Lack Entrepreneurial Talent? Take A Pill!
If you believe that every successful entrepreneur is wired for business, you might be right. Based on the entrepreneurial ability to tolerate risk and their cognitive flexibility, scientists at Cambridge University believe it might be possible to create a pill that will stimulate entrepreneurial qualities in the average person. So you want to be an [...]
Sherri Morris Is The CrAzY CeO
PRLog: Mom Business Owner and product creator of the My Pregnancy Digi Time Capsule has been labeled as the CrAzY CeO and welcomes her new title. Not the normal reaction when one is labeled as crazy, but Sherri Morris says “if the shoe fits, then why not wear it – a girl can never have [...]
Mom Opens Eatery Among Tough Times
MSNBC: A metro Detroit mother of six said she’s hoping that opening a new restaurant will be enough to support her family. Scrubbing, determination and hope are the first ingredients Suzanne Zoellner has used to get her new cooking business, LuLu White’s Chicken And Dumplings, started. Zoellner said she has not been able to find [...]
Telling Customers Not to Purchase Your Product
photo credit: Russ Neumeier When you think about telling your customers not to purchase your key product of success, you think that’s out of this world crazy. However, for Xerox it worked like a charm, it actually boosted their growth. Rather then working on selling their clients products, they are now selling them solutions such [...]
Three Things to Get More Customers
photo credit: peasap In business we all want as many customers as we can get our hands on, it’s natural, after all our customers is our lively hood, they help our business stay a float and grow. Below are three things that a business must poses in order to obtain a large customer base. A [...]
photo credit: andydr From TechCrunch comes word of a new semester-based startup camp for very, very early-stage entrepreneurs and students who have basic ideas for potential startups but have not yet founded a company: What this economy needs to get out of its rut is more startups. Adeo Ressi, the founder of VC-rating site TheFunded, [...]
Mall Space For Startups And Minipreneurs
Springwise: Last fall Urban Retail’s Oakland Mall in Troy, Mich., began offering small startups and minipreneurs special leasing rates that make it easier for them to test the waters among shoppers at the mall without entering into a long-term contract. Specifically, 12 kiosks have been placed throughout the mall and can be leased for as [...]
Teens Get Taste Of Entrepreneurship
The Buffalo News: Nicole Rhynes had a bounce in her step as she hustled from one workshop to another at Erie County Community College. The sophomore had just left a workshop led by Tony Magiotto, owner of local fashion boutique CityLove Clothing and was feeling inspired as she rushed to a discussion about business ethics. [...]
Running A Biz After Doing Time
The New York Times: This year, nearly 700,000 people will be released from state or federal prisons. They will join the worst economy in decades, many of them with limited education and little or no legitimate employment experience. And a criminal record will make it that much harder to find a job. Yet newly released [...]
Geoff Karlavage had just landed in Las Vegas in August 2007 when his Blackberry buzzed with an message saying that the mortgage lender he worked for was shutting down. There’s no place like Las Vegas to drown your sorrows, but before long Karlavage was back in Florida looking for a job. But at every job [...]
Student Creates Micro-Lending Team To Aid Entrepreneurs
College Media Network: I often heard from people that the poor need to pull themselves up by their bootstraps,” said Amihan Makayan, senior in the Hutchins program. “The reality is, in many places in the world, people do not even have boots!” Eager to help others succeed, Makayan has created the SSU Kiva Team as [...]
Survive and Triumph in Recession
photo credit: Snap® In these dire days, doing nothing is not an option. Passivity will only make things worse. But what can we do when there is little or no new investment? Here are four useful actions I’ve seen work effectively. Make your moves while everyone else is distracted. This is the time when you [...]
ars technica: Creative Commons has officially launched a Web tool to aid content creators who want to publish material under the highly permissive CC0 license. The tool, which has been under development for over a year, has now reached 1.0 status and is accessible from the Creative Commons website. In December 2007, Creative Commons launched [...]
