May 2010

NOVUS® Glass Promotes Andersen To Vice President, Franchise Sales And Development

glassBYTEs: NOVUS Franchising Inc. has promoted Ted Andersen to vice president, franchise sales and development. Andersen will continue his role of managing the Eastern region while overseeing new franchise sales efforts and the franchise development staff, according to the company. “Growing the NOVUS franchisee network is a key component to our future plans,” says senior […]

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My Biz: MagnoGrip

According to a story in BusinessWeek, Andre Woolery had already done a lot–starting an IT company, opening a Caribbean restaurant, and enrolling at Stanford University’s business school–before he started MagnoGrip in Menlo Park, Calif. Woolery, 32, who was born and raised in Jamaica, got the idea for his latest venture in 2005 after he helped

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How to Get On The Oprah Show

Inventor’s Digest has posted a step by step guide for getting your product onto The Oprah Show. The bad news: Ninety-five percent of Oprah’s guests are invited, and are rarely booked because a publicist made a phone call and pitched a client. It’s rare that any of her staff even make themselves available to hear

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Gold Vending Machine

AFP: There’s no mistaking what’s in this vending machine. The well-heeled in the Gulf can now grab “gold to go” from a hotel lobby in the United Arab Emirates, when the need for a quick ingot strikes. On Thursday, a day after its inauguration, the shiny machine attracted spectators of many different nationalities who gathered

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My Biz: The Comfort Company

Renee Wood says she’s used to weeping at work. She runs an online bereavement-gift outfit, Comfort Co., from suburban Geneva and gets calls all day from people who want to buy something special for someone who has just lost a loved one, reports BusinessWeek. Compassion comes naturally to Wood–she was a social worker in a

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What’s Holding Women Back?

The Wall Street Journal: The phenomenal growth of women-owned businesses has made headlines for three decades–women consistently have been launching new enterprises at twice the rate of men, and their growth rates of employment and revenue have outpaced the economy. So, it is dismaying to see that, despite all this progress, on average, women-owned business

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My Biz: Little Pim

Her father, renowned linguist Dr. Paul Pimsleur, was the brains behind a language learning system that bears his last name. So when Julia Pimsleur Levine, then a documentary filmmaker, wanted to teach her first son how to speak French, she was understandably picky. According to BusinessWeek, audio learning materials for myriad languages based on her

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