Archive for March 14th, 2011
Brother has launched the “See the Bigger Picture” contest and is awarding one lucky small business owner a $10,000 business grant (and a chance to win other prizes like iPads and other Brother products). Small business owners can enter the contest at www.shareyourbigpicture.com now through March 29. Participants will be asked to explain in at [...]
Web Startups Have The Upper Hand
If you’re a web startup, venture capital has not been easier to find. Just ask Aaron Levie. According to The Wall Street Journal, his web business, Box.net, not only succeeded at finding funding, but he had to turn some investors away. Isn’t that a problem we all wish we had? Mr. Levie’s experience underlines one [...]
AllegiantAir wants it’s customers to be able to gamble on fuel prices. They’ve written a letter to the Department of Transportation asking for permission to allow their customers to be able to choose between a traditional fixed-price ticket and a discounted, variable-price one. If the price of jet fuel falls by the departure date, customers [...]
Put Yourself To The Entrepreneur Test
PsychTest has created the Entrepreneur Personality Test. It is a unique test that can assess whether you’re entrepreneur material. The test covered seven key business traits, namely Self-sufficiency, Conscientiousness, Drive, Social Skills, Optimism, Risk-taking, and Networking Ability. With over 12,000 test-takers to date, PsychTests data revealed that entrepreneurs who took the test outscored those without [...]
Woman Sells First Spot in iPad 2 Line For $900
When demand is greater than supply, and you have some of the supply, you can always make money. Mashable has a story about one woman who sold her spot in line for the Apple iPad 2: College student Amanda Foote has turned the die-hard techie tradition of waiting hours, sometimes days, to be the first [...]
BMOC $0.99: The Book With My Favorite Bizop
One of my favorite books of 2007, BMOC by Warren Meyer, is now on sale in a Kindle version at Amazon for $0.99. While the book is fictional, it does contain a number of interesting business ideas, including my favorite outlandish business opporunity of all time: fountain coin harvesting. Warren Meyer runs an exceptional blog [...]
Mom Biz Academy Helps Moms Hit The Books
If you’re a mom interested in starting a business, Lara Galloway has the tools to help you get started. She has recently launched a new resource for mompreneurs called the Mom Biz Academy. For $47 per month, women will have access to resources, informative monthly calls, and more. Galloway says there are six steps for [...]
Inventors Vying For “As Seen On TV” Fame
Timothy Dahlin thought he had the next “As Seen” product, but left the room quite disappointed when his idea was rejected. His creation, the Ice Chest Cooler Label, sticks to coolers and people write on them what can be found within. His goal was to make it easy for people picnicking to figure out which [...]
