Now that we’ve entered December, parents are starting to break out their children’s coats for another winter– if they haven’t already. With the coats comes the extra essentials, hats and gloves. For some lucky kids, this means they get to wear their favorite animal on their head. BuddyTops, founded by Luis Kain and Nacer Hamai, […]
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The Orangeville Banner: If you want to find Chris Llewellyn, your best bet – most days – is to knock on her garage door. That’s where the Orangeville resident spends much of her time creating rustic home décor items for a national distributor. “As anyone who has a small business knows, there’s no such thing
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Harmony Kaiser has a salon, but has been spending her days off driving to a lab in Beaver County and making deliveries to retailers, reports The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Kaiser is ignoring the economic downturn and pouring her extra funds and time into launching new businesses on the side, even as she keeps her day job.
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Like many great mom entrepreneurs before her, Michelle Brandriss’ business began out of frustration. She was looking for a customizable kids label that would fit her specific needs and found herself unsatisfied with the options available. Instead of settling for something that didn’t quite fit what she wanted, Michelle leaped into action and created Name
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If you have a child in daycare or in school then you know what it is like to label everything, from cups to clothing, that leaves the house. Traditionally that would mean the use of a permanent marker but now that is no longer necessary. Innovative parents, like Laura Porreca of Lovable Labels, have found
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Toronto-based Sprouter is an online community that allows small business owners and entrepreneurs to share links, ask questions and share expertise with their peers, reports trendspotter Springwise. Whereas most social networks focus on connecting users with people they already know, the premise behind Sprouter is that it’s often the people one hasn’t yet connected with–but
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Entrepreneurship programs at UW—Madison are supporting innovative thinking and actions, so says UW News. A new course, Art as Business as Art, is showing students in the arts the range of creative possibilities available to them and giving them the tools they need to advance their career goals. Art as Business as Art grew out
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Susan Baida at the Current Mom blog discusses her becoming an accidental entrepreneur. I wasn’t someone who always dreamed of being an entrepreneur. I was content in corporate America, building upon a 17-year career in brand marketing. I had an impressive resume including world-renowned companies such as Avon, Estee Lauder and Starwood Hotels. I enjoyed
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Proving that microloans can help to change the world one little bit at a time, Kiva.org hit a major milestone, TechCrunch reports. Since it’s founding four years ago, it has now made possible $100 million in microloans between individual lenders and entrepreneurs all around the world. The company has brought together 573,000 lenders (people like
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In business, as in poker, sometimes you have to know when to fold ’em. So says serial entrepreneur and blogger Eric Ries on GigaOM. Ries takes the lessons he’s learned from watching the World Series of Poker and explains how entrepreneurs and poker players share many of the same qualities. Namely, “Both rely on acting
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