KJCT8.com: A Whitewater mom is beating the odds in this tough economy. She turned a hobby into a successful business by making unusual products that are now sold world-wide. Kelly Devries makes special soaps that look like pickels, bacon and eggs, doughtnuts, hot dogs, and even dentures. The gentle hand and body soaps come in […]
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examiner.com: Why did you decide to open the Kangaroo Club? The idea for Kangaroo Club was born during the last months of my pregnancy. I had been doing the “office job”, and I realized I was unable to unwind and enjoy my family at the end of a stressful day. The minute my son smiled
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Harvard Business: Great entrepreneurs share and need SGL: Smarts, Guts, and Luck: Smarts The best self-made entrepreneurs possess outstanding street smarts, intuition, emotional and conceptual intelligence as much as–and often more so than–book smarts, analytics, and managerial intelligence. It is why founders are usually very good getting companies to a certain level, but usually less
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BusinessWeek: David Jones and Ed Basconi had worked together at an electronics production plant in Johnson City, Tenn., since the early 1980s, weathering three different owners: Texas Instruments, Siemens, and EPIC Technologies. But with production moving to Mexico, Jones took a buyout in 2007, and Basconi is one of a handful of employees staying on
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MSNBC: HealthSport, Inc. announced today that the Company, and its subsidiaries, had total product sales of approximately $430,000. The Company’s sales for February 2009 were $425,000 more or 8600% greater than the revenues for February 2008. “Our relationship with Enlyten, LLC continues to produce strong revenues for the Company and adds substantial credibility to our
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PRNewswire: Following a successful two-year campaign of support for the American Heart Association’s Go Red For Women movement, CUTCO Cutlery has announced that it is extending its support for another year. From March 2007 to March 2009, CUTCO donated more than $274,000 to Go Red For Women through a corporate donation of $200,000, and more
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NBC29: As employers shed jobs across the U.S., one web-savvy woman is helping others find success from the comfort of their own homes. Leslie Truex, the self-named “Pajama Mom” has spent the past 10 years living and working online operating her own website. “I would search the internet for work-at-home jobs and I would share
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CNN: It is at least 1,000 pages long. It costs $787 billion. And it’s as thick as two telephone books. The size and scope of President Obama’s stimulus package is staggering. But for many Americans who work at home, their concerns about the package can be reduced to one question: What’s in it for me?
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Franchising.com: Leading greeting card publisher and franchisor, Card Connection, has today announced that its franchisee for the Chesterfield area is set on growing his business despite the widely publicised economic downturn. Paul Du Toit has recently purchased the neighbouring franchise territory of Lincolnshire to more than double the size of his region which now incorporates
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The Age: Breathing life into that money-making venture lurking in the back of your mind is a matter of following some basic steps, writes Helena Keers. History tells us that Australians are an entrepreneurial lot. War correspondent and historian C. E. W. Bean said so. And it’s no less true today than it was 60
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