Archive for July 9th, 2010
The TV Hat looks like some thing out of a “SNL” sketch, but it’s no joke. The cheesy As Seen on TV ad for the $30 hat — essentially a black curtain hanging from a baseball cap with a ludicrously long bill — has quickly become the hot new viral video, reports The New York [...]
Intuit Scouting For Startup Partners
VentureBeat reports that startups with business and financial tools should check their calendar for Aug. 16. That’s when Intuit, the maker of popular financial software like QuickBooks and Quicken, will be holding its second annual Entrepreneur Day, where it invites startups to its Mountain View, Calif., campus to meet with executives and discuss business partnerships. [...]
Chicago Tribune: At 22, Scott Skelly already has a national reputation in his field – corn. The recent college graduate has been creating corn mazes since he was an enterprising 9-year-old who persuaded his dad to let him cut a few paths with dead ends in a cornfield on the family’s 200-acre farm. His first [...]
Erasing Yourself From Internet Is Impossible
It’s been almost two decades since mainstream users began trekking into the library-slash-playground known as the World Wide Web. Now, several years into that excursion, many are taking a long hard look at the trail they’ve left behind. The San Francisco Chronicle asked is it even possible to exit the Internet? The short answer is [...]
While many start-up companies start locally and grow into international markets, a small start-up company called ZIPZ Shoes did just the opposite. Facing a tough U.S. economy, ZIPZ immediately focused their energy abroad to widen the sales area for product launch. This two-prong approach has really proved to be successful as their unique interchangeable shoe [...]
Mail Online: Many mothers struggle to produce enough breast milk to feed a growing baby. But when Toni Ebdon gave birth she found herself with so much she decided to bottle it up and sell it on the internet. Miss Ebdon got the idea when a friend laughed that she had enough breast milk to [...]
New Advertiser: Typing Bug Virtual Assistant Services
We’re happy to welcome Typing Bug Virtual Assistant Services onboard as new advertiser. They are promoting their mentoring program designed for new virtual assistants. Typing Bug Virtual Assistant Services offers a mentoring program designed for new virtual assistants. This 30-day unlimited program is offered via email and is completely self-paced. This doesn’t mean that you [...]
Student ingenuity at finding jobs has created some interesting enterprises tapping into the Hamilton market. The Hamilton Spectator reports that the 15 successful local candidates of the 2010 Ontario Summer Company program have businesses ranging from organic garlic growing to autism intervention for parents. Robin Hallett, a McMaster University PhD biochemistry student, had a vegetable [...]
Economic Slump Stirs Up Home Grown Opportunity
Los Angeles Times: For Marlene Baroli-Turati, life has become an obsession with sugar and fruit. After working two decades as a project manager for Boeing Co., she was laid off during a round of recession-fueled cutbacks in 2008. “I had always made jams and jellies as gifts,” said Baroli-Turati, 44, who lives in Lake Forest [...]
Shoppers Picky As They Head Back To Stores
CNNMoney says sales at major retailers rose for a 10th straight month in June, but mixed results reported Thursday signaled that consumers are still cautious. According to sales tracker Thomson Reuters, which looks at monthly sales for 28 leading chains such as Macy’s, Target, Costco and J.C. Penney, June same-store sales rose 3.1%. That was [...]
Is putting a sandwich in a can and calling it a “Candwich” the next can’t-miss billion-dollar idea? According to The New York Times, even if it is, investors in Utah who put $145 million in the hands of a money manager named Travis L. Wright will still have thinner wallets. A lawsuit by the federal [...]
