Now I Know: David Johnson is an allegedly homeless man living in San Francisco. He is also a street performer who makes, in a good year, north of $60,000 per some reports. His instrument? Two branches from eucalyptus trees, with greenery intact, each about five feet high, which he hides behind while sitting on a […]
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Even the homeless can use marketing to make their panhandling standout from the competition. Below you’ll find nine signs from the entrepreneurial homeless.
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Dennis Anderson never expected to be homeless. After all, he had a college degree. (Sarcasm) Unfortunately, that plus the money he earned at his retail jobs in Massachusetts, barely paid the bills. So, on a whim, he packed up his car and drove across the country to the Oregon. Where he found himself, without his
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AOL: Forget the mint on the pillow. At this hotel, there is no pillow, blanket or bed. If you’re lucky, you stay just once at the $10-a-night Faktum Hotel, where guests experience life in Gothenburg, Sweden, as a homeless person. If you’re unlucky, you’re actually homeless, and sleeping every night under a bridge — one
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PhillyTrib: For Jason Mercado, being laid off in the current recession couldn’t have come at a better time. In less than a year, he has gone from laid off and homeless to a budding entrepreneur. “I look at it as a blessing,” said Mercado, speaking of his erstwhile hard times and joblessness, as the big
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Now I Know: David Johnson, pictured, is an allegedly homeless man living in San Francisco. He is also a street performer who makes, in a good year, north of $60,000 per some reports. His instrument? Two branches from eucalyptus trees, with greenery intact, each about five feet high, which he hides behind while sitting on
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NY Times: “With a project called Homeless Hotspots, a marketing company is helping out with this, while helping the homeless and promoting itself. Homeless people have been enlisted to roam the streets wearing T-shirts that say “I am a 4G hotspot.†Passersby can pay what they wish to get online via the 4G-to-Wi-Fi device that
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Sometimes, when you’re starting a business, you have to do almost anything to make it succeed. CNET has the story of one entrepreneur who was so desperate to start that he secretly lived and worked inside of AOL’s office for two months before security discovered his “apartment”: Having spent several months legitimately working in the
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Peter Samuelson believes everyone deserves a roof. He felt so strongly about his argument that he made it the name of his nonprofit: Everyone Deserves A Roof. The organization provides a unique mobile shelter for the homeless, reports Entrepreneur. Housing L.A.’s homeless population, which numbered nearly 60,000 at the height of 2008’s economic downturn, would
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According to San Diego.com, just a few years ago, Abraham, Laura and Ruth Sanchez were homeless. They lived at the Rescue Mission downtown with their mother and other brothers and sisters. Abraham, Laura and Ruth wound up at The Monarch School, the largest school for homeless children in the country. While they were there, they
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