In this episode, Rich Whittle talks with four entrepreneurs about what it takes to start a business. Listen Now: Or download: THAT’S MY BUSINESS!: Start Up Advice IAmAstuffedAnimal.com MyHusbandsNuts.com RunPee.com Skoy Cloth
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It was just last summer when Jake Sendar and Timothy Patch decided to turn an old van into an ice cream truck. This year Sendar has gone solo as a fries and shake entrepreneur reports The Washington Post. Sendar put together a 50-page business plan over the school year, got some money from Grandma and
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WJRT-TV reports that a Mid-Michigan mother and son decided unemployment was not for them. That’s why they started their own business a year ago. In May 2008, Sue Leja was laid off from her job as vice president of sales for a clock company. Her son Nick graduated from Kettering University a few months later.
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Meet the “tempreneur.” Lynn Taylor at Womenentrepreneur.com has coined the term “tempreneur” for what she describes as an entrepreneur who also does temporary stints or project stints. I believe that the year 2010 is a paradigm shift to this entrepreneur/temporary worker, where the person is an entrepreneur in that she seeks her own business, but
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Google’s idea man. Craig Walker, the crafty upstart behind Google Voice, will be named Google Venture’s first “entrepreneur-in-residence,” The New York Times reports. Google bought Walker’s call routing service, GrandCentral, for a reported $45 million in 2007 and turned it into what is now Google Voice. Essentially, as the Times writes, Walker will now be
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To many people J.W. Breeden is known as ‘that kid’ reports statesman.com. As in, that kid who was fascinated by technology in preschool, who earned his first $50 hooking up a family friend’s computer when he was 7 and who had his first business customer in the seventh grade. As in, that kid who wrote
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Katherine Lewis over at Current Mom writes as a new entrepreneur, I was shocked by how many valuable services and products were available for free. We all know the failure rate for new businesses is depressingly high, largely because of cash flow problems. It pays to be cheap when you’re starting out — at least
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Everybody has a great idea that could change the way we work, the way we live or the way we play. Everyday Edisons documents the development process of 12 inventions and the parallel stories of the people who invented them. Selected from thousands at casting calls held across the country, the “Everyday Edisons” learn how
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According to Inc.com, the U.S. is no longer tops in the world for entrepreneurship — and large companies are partly to blame, concludes a new Small Business Administration study. The report — titled “Global Entrepreneurship and the United States” — compares U.S. entrepreneurship and performance against 70 other countries. It found that large companies account
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The National Franchise & Business Opportunites Show – Chicago When: 9/11/2010- 9/12/2010 Where: Schaumburg Convention Center – Illinois 1551 N Thoreau Dr. Schaumburg, IL 60173 The National Franchise & Business Opportunities Show focuses on self employment opportunities for individuals wanting to start up a full or part time business of their own, or wishing to
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