Archive for August 13th, 2009
Les Paul, Jazz-Guitar Virtuoso and Inventor, Dies at 94
Washington Post: Les Paul, 94, a Grammy Award-winning guitar virtuoso and inventor of the solid-body electric guitar who helped bring his instrument to the forefront of jazz and rock-and-roll performance, died today at a hospital in White Plains, N.Y. He had pneumonia. Paul first came to prominence for his fast and flashy jazz-guitar style, which [...]
Bicycle Repair Shops On Wheels
Springwise: With cycling gaining ground as a regular mode of transportation, flat tires and broken chains are on the up, too. Which creates an opportunity for bike-loving entrepreneurs: mobile bike repair shops. In the Netherlands, for example, we’ve spotted companies like Fix Fiets and Bikemobiel, both of which do house calls in vans or trucks [...]
Jet Blue just announced “all you can jet” travel. Think about this kind of pricing for your business. Is there a way that you could get people to prepay for the ability to use your service an unlimited amount?
photo credit: Pardesi* Being an employee, whether it is for a small company or a large one, can be stressful at times, especially in today’s economy with record high lay offs and unemployment. An employee often feels uncomfortable at work around their higher up co-workers and boss, wondering what they can say and not say, [...]
Shorten Your Web Page Loading Time
photo credit: Simon Davison From Monday 27th July 2009 to Friday 31st July 2009 we ran an experiment on the website for our server monitoring service, Server Density. The aim was to reduce page load time by as much as possible with the minimal amount of work. With just a few tweaks to the site, [...]
photo credit: Svadilfari When you are first starting your new business, you generally reach out to many different networks and people for all of the tips and advice that you can get, especially if this is the first time ever that you have opened up your own business. Here are some key lessons that every [...]
Furniture Biz Starts From Scrap
Fortune Small Business: Some people need a kick in the pants before they change course. For Carlos Salgado, 41, it took a knock on the head. In 1998, the art handler and sculptor was working at the Guggenheim Museum SoHo in New York City. One moment he was disassembling a 400-pound steel sculpture by Italian [...]
photo credit: lemonjenny Today it is no secret that many people and businesses alike are experiencing higher volumes of debt. Creditors are most likely at their all time high when it comes to collecting on debt in the U.S. today. I recently came across some different strategies you can use to shrink your debt, courtesy [...]
Twitter-Based Shopping Website Seeks Retailers
Reuters: Buying something online can be a frustrating process. The shear numbers of websites offering the same product can lead to endless hours of surfing to try to find the right deal. Prashant Nedungadi has been one of those people and decided to use that frustration to launch IMshopping.com, a website that utilizes a combination [...]
photo credit: Per Ola Wiberg (Powi)..away Today we keep hearing about several companies laying off people left and right or even just out right firing people on a daily basis, cutting wages, vacation time and sick leave time. When a manager gets a list of people to ax, it must go through their mind at [...]
Immigrants: The New, High-Tech Entrepreneurs
Reuters: Picture the founders of any big-name tech company in the U.S. and you’ll probably think of Twitter’s Biz Stone, or Apple’s Steve Jobs, or Bill Gates from Microsoft. In other words: white American men. But a report released this month reveals that 16 percent of high-tech, “high-impact” companies are founded by immigrants. The study, [...]
Social Networking Saving Small Businesses Money
photo credit: luc legay In today’s economy we as business owners are all trying every possible avenue we can take in order to save a few buck’s here and there, keep our heads a float while waiting for the shore line of economic downturn to surface. One of the thing’s that a business owner can [...]
Small Biz Promises: Where Obama Stands
CNNMoney: Recent efforts to help small businesses haven’t mirrored those implemented in the aftermath of 9/11, but new measures from the stimulus have been productive. Obama’s $787 billion stimulus plan includes incentives for banks to make more loans backed by the Small Business Administration. The program temporarily reduces fees associated with those loans and ups [...]
Mom's Supergoop Sunscreen Featured On Today Show
eMediaWire: The TODAY Show’s roving weather star, Al Roker, has packed up his Penske truck once again to hit the road for the annual “Lend a Hand” trip. In its eighth consecutive year, “Lend a Hand” continues its mission to help small charities across the country that work toward improving conditions in their communities. When [...]
What Does Hair And Salsa Have In Common? Lulu.
Keloland.com: You may not think this would be an easy time for the entrepreneur to find success. But one KELOLAND mom says business is heating up in the salsa industry. When you see it on grocery store shelves, you can’t help but notice the label, along with the unusual name, “LuLu’s Big Hair Salsa.” That [...]
