July 21, 2010

Chutney Joe’s Open For Franchising

QSR magazine: Chutney Joe’s, an Indian concept, announced the official launch of its franchise program. The announcement reflects the restaurant’s local consumer appeal and global market potential. According to founder Vijay Puniani, Chutney Joe’s offers customers a whole new way to enjoy fresh, home-style Indian cuisine in a casual, contemporary, and inviting setting. Customers of […]

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What is Patent Trolling?

Erich Spangenberg makes a fortune by buying patents and then suing large corporations that are infringing on them. Good.is takes a look at his unusual and vilified profession: Trolling works something like this: First a shell company, which is incorporated but has no significant assets or operations, is created. Orion IP is one of Spangenberg’s

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How To Compete With Groupon Clones

This article makes a good point. It’s titled How To Compete With A Million Other Groupon Clones: Find A Niche. Groupon is a “daily coupon” website. It’s basically an email list that charges advertisers to send out their “coupons” called Groupons. Many small businesses I’d likely never hear about otherwise send me their coupons this

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Super Car Wash

According to BBC News, Gurcharn Sahota works on some of the world’s fastest cars at his workshop just outside Derby. But if you’re used to spending £5 on getting the car cleaned at the local garage, forget it. Gurcharn says he uses painstaking cleaning methods to make £1 million supercars look almost better than new.

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Mompreneur Starts Tech Company To Help Kids With Disabilities

The Roanoke Times: Margaret Ellis talks expressively and laughs often about her work and family, two parts of her life intertwined. “Running a business is nothing compared to raising Mary,” the Blacksburg mother said. Margaret, 35, started DevelopEase LLC, an education consulting and application-development company, last year. She focuses on helping children with disabilities learn

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Show Me The Money

They call America the land of opportunity, but few would question the notion that it is also the land of contrasts. Mint.com reports that all you need to do is look at the statistics compiled on a regular basis by the Department of Labor, Census Bureau and other government institutions to see the stark differences

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