The idea for a quick, portable shoe started with Rachelle Kuramoto’s mother-in-law. Seeing potential in the product and brand, the two women began working on the concept in 2007, at a time when Rachelle and husband Kenji had an infant (Stella, now 6) and a toddler (Sam, now 9) at home. They spent the following […]
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TrendHunter: Shoe Dating is a singular service that helps people find love—as well as the right pair of shoes. Malaysian retailer Shoes Shoes Shoes has teamed up with dating site Lunch Actually to offer this Cinderella-like service. Men who seek love help from Shoe Dating are asked to choose a pair of shoes they would
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PR.com: Small business crowd funding pioneer 40Billion.com, the leading professional social funding platform, announced today that they are planning to launch Startup Superstar, a novel business plan competition that will help create jobs by supporting budding U.S.entrepreneurs. “Startup Superstar is all about keeping the American Dream alive by helping small-business entrepreneurs access funding and resources,
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‎ TheStreet.com: 1. Bill Gross ‎ 2. Daniel Pink 3. David Allen 4. Bob Sutton 5. Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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The Dominion Post: Driven young entrepreneur Katie Hammond might only be 25 but she has single-handedly turned a university assignment into a viable business. Her company, KTea, sells organic fair trade tea she imports from Sri Lanka and blends by hand at a commercial kitchen near her Upper Hutt home. It is sold at specialist
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There’s a fashionable mantra being preached by ecommerce gurus that one can live and operate an online store from anywhere and that the online store can operate in any country, especially if you employ the drop ship model. This is a falsehood that needs to be challenged, at least according to Robert Mangan, who owns
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If you don’t work for a fortune 500 company, or a government agency, do you still have a business card? I don’t. Well, actually I do, but I last printed them in 2007 and so much has changed since that I don’t think that any of the contact information is valid anymore. According to Fox
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As a restaurant manager, you have a difficult job. Often, your employees will demonstrate many of the same behaviors you do. A “do what I say, not what I do†approach to management is almost always a recipe for disaster. Effective restaurant management requires you set the right example, and you to hold yourself to
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What is that rule? Is is the theory that there needs to be a three second following distance between vehicles. You are putting yourself and your passengers at risk for an accident if you follow any closer. At least, that is the theory used with Don Jurgich’s new invention: GoodDrivR. According to KitsapSun, his device
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MIT Advertising Lab: Advertisers are slowly discovering the potential of Google Maps, and some, like the Target store above (more at Google Sightseeing), are even enjoying some unexpected windfall. Poynter Online talks about realtors tapping into satellite imaging tools. Google Maps Mania is running a log on map hacks, some of them by businesses. Scavengeroogle
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