Billboard:
With CD sales dropping fast, the music business is exploring nontraditional ways to expose consumers to recording artists. Among the new sales and marketing vehicles are Tara Leigh Music Party and musicShop.
Both launched in November...
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The founder of Crate and Barrel said that it was ignorance and
inexperience that got his first store started.
"We didn’t know anything about retail," Segal recalled. "I had grown up in the restaurant...
San Francisco Chronicle:
Can President-elect Barack Obama save the economy? Well, it's true that he has assembled a crackerjack team of economic advisers, but that's only one way Obama can help America get back on track.
American...
Fortune Small Business:
After falling in love with the Nintendo Wii's physically demanding sports games, serial entrepreneur James Park, 32, started to ponder other ways to combine video games and fitness. The result: a $99 lipstick-size...
Slashgear:
Treasure hunter Nathan Smith testifies that he used Google maps to find buried treasure in South Texas. Smith also monitored the treasures location with updated satellite images to ensure that no one was poking around...
USA TODAY:
Where everyone else sees economic gloom and doom, Reid Hoffman sees opportunity.
As the freshly minted CEO of LinkedIn (and its founder), he is shepherding a moneymaking tech company in battered Silicon Valley. And he...
Open Forum:
Five things that every small business owner should do in 2009. Don’t consider it a New Year’s resolution because there’s a whole psychology behind such things. Just do it.
1. Act like a prospective customer...
The New York Times:
Peter Zummo, a senior double-majoring in design and mechanical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is used to explaining the products he thinks up for his studio-class assignments. But last spring, he found...
Fortune Small Business:
Building and maintaining fences for cattle is a time-consuming and costly endeavor. That's why a GPS bovine headset may come in handy.
This past year, Dean Anderson and Daniela Rus have designed and tested...
Star Tribune:
Managing sports fan festivals is proving to be an entrepreneurial slam dunk for Joe Gallagher and his St. Paul-based FILO Productions.
In February, FILO Productions (FILO is an acronym for first in, last out) will...
David Wallace At Search Engine Guide:
If you have yet to hear about Twitter, I might ask you if you have been living in a cave and for how long.
The micro-blogging platform that few knew about...
InformationWeek:
Spending too much business time on the computer when you're not at work? You're not alone.
Small-business owners and managers, already tethered to their computers for long periods, are turning into "mouse potatoes," increasingly eating and...
In a world that's trying to save money and reduce their carbon footprint, many imaginative ideas have popped up to aid those information seekers. My recent find falls within that category.
How do you feel...
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Business Opportunities Weblog readers are a smart and entrepreneurial bunch. Everyday I get emails telling me all about their new projects. Once a week, I'm going to feature some...
The Tampa Tribune:
Faye Dowdell looks for any edge she can find in today's gloomy economy.
Dowdell spent the morning at the Tampa Port Authority office for the first installment of the NFL's Super Bowl XLIII Playbook...
USA TODAY:
Almost nobody would question Earvin Johnson's skill on the basketball court. But in his second career as an entrepreneur, there were doubters from the start.
Johnson, best known by his nickname "Magic," remains one of...
NBCPhiladelphia.com:
Stacey Pace runs a small florist in New Castle, Delaware. So small that her office is her kitchen and she works from a laptop.
"I got this e-mail directly to my business e-mail address from a...
Metro.co.uk:
You'd be forgiven for never hearing of designer Alfred Shaheen.
Yet he inspired one of the most colourful, amusing and unforgettable styles of fashion ever known - the Hawaiian shirt.
Sadly the pioneering textile manufacturer has died...
Matt Cutts' Blog:
Matt Cutts (who works for the Search Quality group in Google) has a great idea for starting the New Year.
Start with a fresh and empty inbox in your Gmail.
There’s nothing like an...
Montana's News Station:
A Missoula-based Internet company recently launched "Pet Living Wills" as a way to protect your favorite dog, cat or goldfish when you are not there.
If you could speak on behalf of your pets,...
