Archive for February 8th, 2010
National Start a Business Month
photo credit: mr_magoo_icu I didn’t realize that February was National Start a Business Month, but LegalZoom.com did. To celebrate they surveyed 1001 Americans at random to learn about their dreams of financial freedom. The results are interesting: The Perfect Business When asked what their perfect business would be, the most popular response (20% of the [...]
Although ever man finds an occasion to wear an undershirt, most men will continue to have their wives purchase them white t-shirts in plastic bags at the discount store. It takes a special kind of man to spend $36 on a white undershirt. For those men, Tommy John makes the crew neck and v-neck stay [...]
Stimulus Cash At Work: PatRick Environmental
From fighting forest fires to laying carpet in day care centers, CNNMoney.com takes a look at what 5 small businesses that got stimulus-funded contracts are doing with taxpayers’ dollars. This Oregon fire-prevention company won stimulus-funded contracts totaling more than $700,000 to “lop and scatter” the branches in two densely populated forests. Thinning a forest slows [...]
How’s this for a niche business? DaLuca Straps is a manufacturer of high end watch straps. They create one-of-a-kind custom straps for expensive watches like Panerai, Bell&Ross, Patek, IWC, and JLC. Each strap is uniquely handmade, so you’ll never run into someone else with the same strap. Dan also creates vintage watch straps that are [...]
Trendspotter Springwise reports that there’ s a new kid on the flat-pack furniture block, offering a portable high chair solution. Made from recycled cardboard, the Feedaway from Melbourne-based Belkiz is an easy-to-assemble, lightweight version of the traditional feeding chair. It’s designed to be used away from home, wherever baby or toddler feeding chairs aren’t available, [...]
Paul King was headed to the airport in Pittsburgh in 2006 when he suffered an ill-timed communications blackout. His cell phone died and he realized he still had his roommate’s house key in his pocket, according to a story at CNNMoney.com. If he didn’t call her to arrange a return, she would be locked out [...]
Secrets Of Top-Selling Girl Scouts
Gina Roberts-Grey over WalletPop says if you couldn’t resist buying a box or two of Thin Mints or Samoas from a Girl Scout recently, don’t feel bad. These pint-sized dynamos have honed sales skills that rival those of some of the most savvy adult professionals. If fact, some Scouts sell thousands of boxes per year. [...]
What’s Old Is New: Tech For Seniors
Making the leap from The Brady Bunch to entrepreneurship, Florence Henderson has started the FloH Club, a membership-based telephone tech support service for seniors, AOL Small Business reports. Henderson is definitely on to something big. The senior market is over 37 million strong in the U.S. alone and is still “a vastly under tapped market. [...]
Google Planning App Store For Bizs
Google is preparing an online store in which it will sell third-party business software to Google Apps customers, according to a report. The Wall Street Journal says that Google’s store could arrive as early as March with the works of third-party developers available as enhancements to Google’s office productivity software suite. It appears the store [...]
Being A Mompreneur In The Business World
If you’ve been thinking about starting your own business then you are not alone, reports the Evanston Review. More and more moms are clawing their way to the top of the entrepreneurial ladder than ever before. Until she became a mother, BabbaCo‘s founder, Jessica Kim, never imagined she would start a baby product line. Dissatisfied [...]
