Archive for September 10th, 2009
Funny: What Does Your Business Card Say About You?
Time: You know what’s funnier than someone calling themself an “infotainer?” An infotainer ranting about pop-up business cards. Enter Joel Bauer, creator and star of the YouTube clip, “Your Business Card is CRAP!” “Looks like crap, it is crap,” Bauer explains while holding up your average business card, one that creases, tears, and does all [...]
Dads Turn iPhone Into Children’s Books
Los Angeles Times: Like most parents who find themselves juggling fussy tots and multiple chores and errands, Woody Sears and Graham Farrar have surrendered their mobile phones to distract their toddlers. It wasn’t just the buttons and beeps on those devices that attracted their kids — it was also the music and video clips that [...]
Chic Vomit Bags For Morning-Sick Moms
Springwise: Morning sickness is an unfortunate reality for many pregnant mothers, and it’s often compounded by the stress of being unable to predict where or when it will strike. Aiming to do away with the frantic search for an appropriate receptacle, Morning Chicness Bags offer a way for expectant moms to always be prepared. Vancouver, [...]
Time Management Tips For The Mompreneur
If your kids haven’t already started going back to school, it is likely they will be within the next week. In which case it is time to start managing your own schedule around their new one, or at least take a hard look at your current schedule to see if there is room for improvement. [...]
Domino’s Delivers Pizzas To The Beach & In The Park
Springwise: Most people order pizzas when they’re at home or at work. Aiming to broaden those delivery horizons, Domino’s Pizza in the Netherlands recently placed white doors in the park and on the beach. Dubbed Domino’s Delivery Points, the doors prominently featured the company’s phone number, as well as doorbells for delivery people to ring. [...]
Armor Cars are Big Business in Brazil
Wall Street Journal: Over the last three years, the number of armored cars in Brazil has doubled as an explosion of wealth has sent the newly rich in search of ways to live safely in a class-driven society where the murder rate is nearly five times that of the U.S. … Brazil’s armoring industry, including [...]
It Takes A Village To Fund A Biz
Fortune Small Business: John Halko was halfway through renovating an expanded space for Comfort, his mostly organic eatery in Hastings-on-Hudson, N.Y., when the credit crisis hit. His source of funding — a home-equity line — ran out, so he applied for a loan at a local bank. He was turned down. Halko wasn’t ready to [...]
Biz Read: American Entrepreneur
Amazon: Ever since the first colonists landed in ‘The New World’, Americans have forged ahead in their quest to make good on the promises of capitalism and independence. This book vividly illustrates the history of business in the United States from the point of view of the enterprising men and women who made it happen. [...]
