Archive for November 9th, 2009
Former Inmate Turns Small Biz Owner
How many of us can truly say we found our life’s calling? Sewing found Johnny Wimberly as a teenager, long before he found this work as a small business owner, running Jed’s Custom Services in Sheridan, reports 9News.com. In 1992, Wimberly was convicted of aggravated armed robbery and spent six years in prison. “I went [...]
Flu Could Put Internet On Life Support
Like many big organizations, Comcast Corp. is taking precautions to halt the spread of H1N1 flu. For one, it has distributed bottles of hand sanitizer to employees reports The Chicago Tribune. But Comcast, the nation’s largest residential Internet provider, with 14 million high-speed subscribers, may have a bigger problem if the flu leads to rampant [...]
Biz Idea: Rental Christmas Trees
Trendspotter Springwise has an interesting holiday story about renting….Christmas trees. For all the traditional merriment they embody, Christmas trees are a) awkward to transport and b) terribly depressing when they’re discarded in January. No longer if Los Angeles landscape architect Scott Martin has his way; he founded The Living Christmas Company, which gives Los Angeles [...]
The Business Pundit has put together a list of the unique origins of 25 popular products. In 1928, accountant Walter Diemer worked at Fleer, but experimented with gum recipes on the side. One of his ingredient combinations was less sticky and stretchier than other gums. He discovered that it he could blow bubbles with it. [...]
Entrepreneur has an interview with Sean Spector, who, in 2002, co-founded Gamefly, an online company that is to gamers what Netflix is to movie lovers. What inspired you to start Gamefly? I had a voracious appetite for video games, and I couldn’t afford to buy all the games I wanted to play. I think that’s [...]
Kid Entrepreneurs Build iPhone App
Owen Voorhees may seem like an unlikely tech entrepreneur because he’s just 11-years old. But according to an Inc.com story, for the last nine months Voorhees has climbed a mountain of doubt, overcame unfamiliar programming languages and pored over college level computer science textbooks–all to develop his very own iPhone application. His app, MathTime, debuted [...]
Mom Creates Kids Only Social Network
ABC15.com: Kids love the Internet, but unfortunately so do sexual predators. Statistics show that nearly 100,000 of them are now on social websites chatting with minors. That concerned Mary Kay Hoal, a mother of five whose teenage daughter wanted to join one of the popular social sites her friends were on. Like any responsible parent, [...]
