Some small businesses depend on contracts to stay in business. When it comes to keeping the business afloat, the quality of a contract is more important than the number of contracts help. Unfortunately, Laura Glynn has recently learned what can happen if you depend solely on too few customers, reports The Washington Post. Glynn, president […]
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Somebody at sometime thought these items were a good idea. Combo Light Switch/Hook. Now lazy people can hang up their clothes and turn off the light in one step. Sandal/with bottle opener. Never know when you’re gonna need to crack open a cold one. Cat Pencil Sharpener. I didn’t even know cats could write. Portable
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Recently imeem founder, Dalton Caldwell, came home to his alma mater so he could speak to a room full of budding entrepreneurs reports Peninsula Press. “I know half of you probably saw me on the program and asked ‘Who’s this guy? Didn’t his company just blow up about nine months ago?’ Yes, that is me.”
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As the vice president of business at Premier Logistics, Robin Sauve could tell that the time would be coming when her employer would go under. Although the end was nearing, she saw an opportunity reports the Hartford Business Journal Online. The bank swooped in and seized the company’s assets in May, leaving Sauve and 30
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12 years ago you might have recognized the name Bill Bartmann. He was on the richest lists with thanks to his debt collection company, Commercial Financial Services. After a serious scandal hit him and his business that is when everything began to go under reports Inc.. We started CFS in 1985. It was phenomenally successful
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As Mario Jurcic gives business a second try, no one has to tell him to remain humble reports The News-Herald. The 25-year-old entrepreneur loves to talk about his year-and-a-half-old business, SECURE IT Asset Disposition Services, but he doesn’t mind talking about the operation he shut down before that, ESCRAPOHIO. The newer Mentor company isn’t that
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With unemployment at stubbornly high levels, Washington’s attention is focused on job creation. Recent research has shown that the formation of businesses is the source of much net job creation, according to a story at BusinessWeek. But when discussing job creation by entrepreneurs, most observers focus on successful new businesses, assuming that most jobs are
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Some companies find their niche and stick to it. Others, though, have to adapt to changing markets in order to thrive. Mental Floss takes a look at some companies that switched industries at some point in their histories, usually for the better. 1. Avon David H. McConnell started Avon in 1886 without really meaning to.
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photo credit: h.koppdelaney Today while the dream of so many people is to become their own boss, create a great product, or simply open up their very own business of some sort and run their own company, so many of those dreamers are tied down by fear today, especially because of the economic situation we’re
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photo credit: spettacolopuro At one time or another we have or will have an experience of failure, no one is exempt from this part of life. But how we deal with our failure and what we do following our failure is what makes us who we are, it is what defines our character as well
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