OCLN: Most adults are in on the secret. Now they can join a club — The Secret of the Tooth Fairy Club. San Clemente resident Diana Farnsworth invented her new business and Web store dedicated to the tooth fairy tradition. She launched the business, she said, to honor her father Peter De Francisci, an architect […]
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Matt Mireles the founder of SpeakerText has defined his formula for choosing an investor: Pitching your startup to investors is a deeply personal matter. More often than not, they——politely or not——call your baby ugly. And that hurts. Good founders, I think, learn to not take the criticism too personally. But in the end, it is
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According to the B’more Green blog, PBS is looking for creative kids and young inventors ages 5-19 to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day this April by participating in the 2010 Trash to Treasure competition. This award-winning series challenges contestants to recycle, reuse, and re-engineer everyday materials into new inventions. Three young innovators will
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According to a story at Entrepreneur.com, putzing around during a sustainable supply chain management course at Michigan State University’s Broad College of Business in 2008, then-MBA student Sam Hogg opened his wallet and stared at one of several plastic gift cards he had received for Christmas. I thought: ‘This is so stupid and wasteful,’” he
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Barbara Findlay Schenck over at Entrepreneur.com gives your business a boost with these no-cost marketing resources. Market research: MapStats. Don’t rely on guesswork to determine whether the region you serve can support your growth goals or whether new markets are good choices for business expansion. Instead, tap into government-assembled facts about any U.S. state, county,
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According to Inc.com, College Hunks Hauling Junk uses sales contests to encourage rivalries and boost employee motivation. Nick Friedman had an idea. Suppose you could take the natural high spirits that compel college students to kidnap one another’s team mascots and toilet-paper rival frat houses and harness it for good? Friedman is president of College
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Their shoe is not on the market yet, but if students at A.R. Johnson Health Science and Engineering Magnet School have their way, it will be in the near future, reports The Augusta Chronicle. Step It Up is a flat women’s shoe that comes with a short heel, a high heel and a wedge heel.
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Franchising.net.au: Peer support is what makes franchising great, writes Lou Pannunzio, 2009 Franchisee of the Year – two or more staff and Kwik Kopy Ringwood franchisee. “Franchising is all about a team effort. When you surround yourself with people running comparable types of business, you can act on all that information, the sales tools and
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The Birmingham News – al.com: A franchise operator could open not one but two Copeland’s of New Orleans restaurants in the Birmingham-Hoover metro area, according to the chain’s head of franchising. Andy Gunkler, chief franchise development officer for Copeland’s, said in a Monday interview that the owner of the Copeland’s in Little Rock has rights
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PR.com: Play N Trade Franchise, INC, the fastest growing video game franchise worldwide, is excited to announce that not only will it be attending the 2010 Multi-Unit Franchising Conference but will also be a sponsor for the event. From March 24th-26th, one of the only conferences in the nation focused exclusively on multi-unit franchising will
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