Archive for April 9th, 2009
Entrepreneur Creates New Recipe For Oxygen
Fortune Small Business: When an elementary school pupil collapsed with low blood oxygen levels in Orangeburg, S.C. last year, nurse Ashlyn Gray reached for a device that had been delivered just the day before. “It arrived not a day too soon,” she says of the emergency oxygen generator made by OxySure, a small company based [...]
Business, Franchise & Investment Show in Toronto, Canada
The Business Exchange presents the Business, Franchise & Investment Expo which is taking place on May 2 & 3, 2009 at the Toronto Congress Centre, in Toronto, Canada. The show is designed for entrepreneurs and investors seeking new opportunities at all investment levels. You’ll have an opportunity to meet with over 150 exhibitors offering established [...]
Video Sites Entice Users To Stay And Play
The Wall Street Journal: Online video — once a click-and-watch experience — is increasingly looking for audience participation. Web-video sites, including Google Inc.’s YouTube, Veoh Networks Inc. and Overlay.TV Inc., have recently added or plan to add features that let users embed interactive commentary and links into videos. Dailymotion Inc. added a feature called VideoZap, [...]
photo credit: TheTruthAbout… Tawnya Gilreath, writing on the Biz Ben Blog, offers an insightful look at how escrow accounts can protect you during a big transaction such as selling a business, or an invention: In dealing with business sales, often times the seller or the buyer will ask about the use of an escrow company. [...]
AppScout: Forget all that business about Twitter, BlackBerry apps, and the Palm Pre. The real news is that BlackSocks.com, which has sold over a million socks through the mail in Europe, has come to the U.S. For the not-too-bad price of $89 annually, you can get three pairs of men’s calf-length socks mailed to you [...]
Office Space Rented Out By The Desk
Springwise: While remote working is easier than ever, working from home or the nearest Starbucks can quickly lose its appeal. Enter Desk Space Genie, a new website that advertises vacant desk space. The service helps businesses make a bit of money from their unused office space and enables cash-strapped freelancers or other small businesses to [...]
Entrepreneurs’ Lesson #1: Do The Math
Fortune Small Business: Every business goes through three stages: start up, throw up and grow up. Right now, with the economy as bad as I’ve seen it, many entrepreneurs in this country are experiencing stage two. The first stage is exciting: the big idea, the perfect name, the projections of vast wealth. This is a [...]
Tampa Bay Business Journals: AARP Services Inc. launched an initiative designed to assist small-business owners with group health insurance, retirement planning and payroll services. The program is being test-marketed in Chicago and Tampa, a release said. The Small Business Services benefits package includes health and disability insurance options through UnitedHealthcare, part of Unitedhealth Group Inc.; [...]
