Archive for July 30th, 2010
When The Folks Give You The Biz
Watching fellow college students working for $7.50 an hour after graduation, Tana Walther, a fashion-design major at Kent State University in Ohio, snapped up an alternative offered by her father—to run a Pita Pit restaurant franchise he would buy. “I guess I bought her a job,” says her father, Jan Walther, of North Canton, Ohio. [...]
Soft Granola Leads Entrepreneur On The Trail To Success
Now that Justin Avery Anderson’s soft granola has made it to the shelves of Whole Foods and Central Market, he hopes to take it all the way to the White House reports The Dallas Morning News. “I have not contacted the White House, but that’s the plan for the next few weeks,” the 23-year-old says. [...]
The Playground Has Gone Indoors
Michelle Christerson would find herself faced with a challenge whenever it would rain. Where would she take her 4 and 12 year old children to play? Between a play structure located at the mall and an arcade, there just weren’t many options. According to the Kitsap Sun, that was when she decided to make life [...]
Ever wonder how even mediocre-tasting pizza can look delectably mouth-watering in commercials? From the perfect cheese pull to tweezing the mozzarella, Domino’s gives us a backstage look at the creation of a pizza commercial. That explains why a large pizza costs $15!
According to The Morning Journal, DesAnn Collins started Design by DesAnn in 2006. The opportunity came after the sale of a family-owned convenience store. Collins is an interior decorator specializing in home staging, making subtle changes inside homes for sale to make them more appealing to buyers. “Most of the time the homes are still [...]
Red boxes, red envelopes and the blue and yellow Blockbuster stores may dominate the movie rental landscape, but according to a recent survey, when Americans want to watch a DVD, they are most likely to turn to their local library. The Hartford Courant reports the survey, released this year by OCLC, a nonprofit library co-operative [...]
4th Annual Houston Inventors Tradeshow
The Houston Inventors Association and the University of Houston Small Business Development Center are having the Fourth Annual Inventors Tradeshow on Wednesday August 11, 2010 from 5 to 8:30 pm. In addition to members of the Houston Inventors Association, we have invited inventors from other surrounding areas. We have also invited representatives from local companies [...]
WomenEntrepreneur.com dishes out inspiration from current mompreneurs. • Royn Pellei of Vive Vita thought she was getting her big break when a big company became interested in one of her baby products. That company soon decided the product was unacceptable. Pellei went back to the drawing board, created an even better product and sealed the [...]
