Archive for April 5th, 2010
Kristina Giedra always thought she’d become a music teacher, says the Glendale Heights Press. But things just didn’t work out that way. After receiving a green card to come to America a decade ago, Giedra landed a nanny job with a Naperville family and began taking college management and marketing courses. With her degree, she [...]
According to a story at USA TODAY, coaches aren’t the only ones making money off the rising tide of their salaries. Winthrop Intelligence is a year-old company that uses open-records requests to create a database of what every Division I head coach and assistant in every men’s and women’s sport at every public college is [...]
Marshmallow Entrepreneur And Preschooler
Believe it or not the real boss of Madyson’s Marshmallows is 4 year old Madyson Wetzel. While her parents do a majority of the business work it is Madyson who puts in the elbow grease, says KOMO News. What began as something Mom and Dad did for family and friends has bloomed into a home [...]
Board Games On iPad Are Going To Be Big
Mashable reports that if you’re a classic board game geek, you probably love the feeling of cards, dice or a chess board under your hand. But in all those situations when you don’t have the actual board — let’s say you’re going on a vacation, and you don’t want to carry the extra weight and [...]
Why Do People Become Social Entrepreneurs?
Defined as “individuals with innovative solutions to society’s most pressing social problems” by Ashoka.org, social entrepreneurship is on the rise. Small Business Trends takes a look at this trend and wonders, what makes it so popular? This rise in the popularity begs the question: why do people become social entrepreneurs? There are, no doubt, numerous [...]
Inc.com writes sure, it’s been mocked as a super-sized iPod or a laptop sans keyboard, but Apple’s iPad is also a brand new tablet platform with a diverse audience and few rivals. That means that programmers, merchants, designers, and just about anybody with an existing business is probably asking themselves, Is there a way my [...]
Freemium: Everyone’s Doing It, But How?
The Freemium Summit, an event focused on discussing the ever popular business model and how new companies can best take advantage of it, was held in San Francisco, and since then, interesting stats and bits of information have been popping up on blogs and news sites, reports ReadWriteWeb. New business models have been a hot [...]
Startups Are Using Social Media For Real Results
According to a story at Mashable, for startups, the amount of money you have to burn before you either need to break even or raise more capital is your runway. Extending the length of that runway is an art form that requires startup founders to learn how to squeeze maximum value out of every dollar [...]
ResearchBuzz has a story about a huge archive of Radio Shack catalogs online. Radio Shack has been in business since 1921, over 90 years. And for 65 of those years has produced an outstanding electronics and technology catalog, surpassing the catalog of all rival companies. Through the decades, this catalog expanded to contain a mix [...]
