Gail Summerskill writes on how the new entrepreneurial mindset is taking over the conventional “work for someone else” mentality.
Charlotte Observer:
“I grew up in a family whose members worked for people other than for themselves.
Jobs, careers and monthly salaries came from corporations or institutions. No one in my family tree started a business — small or […]
Entrepreneur:
“C I Host commands some impressive figures: 210,000 customers, as many as 5,000 new customers every month, 8,000 resellers around the world, a 37,000-square-foot data center and 9,000 servers. Another interesting number: 15. That’s the age at which Christopher Faulkner started his first business selling baseball cards and sports memorabilia out of a small storefront in […]
Post Chronicle:
“Irish upstart and entrepreneur Aodhan Cullen built his web analytic tool, StatCounter, at the tender age of 16 in his hometown of Dublin, Ireland. Cullen was looking for a way to help his web page clients as way to see the number of “hits” they would get on their websites, along with other measurements, […]
Kansas City Star:
“Stratman, a pilot for a major airline, started his business (transfering photographs to canvas) after the company filed for bankruptcy.
“I decided to take more control of my financial life,” he said.
He chose an Internet-based business because startup costs are low and the potential customer base is worldwide.
Strengths: Perfectionism and honesty serve him well.
“I won’t […]
Business2.com:
“Social networks are a dime a dozen these days, but last week a new one launched called Geni that is actually quite different than anything else out there. David Sacks, Founder, thinks of Geni as more of a family network site than a MySpace-style social network. As he puts it:
You have social networks and professional networks. The […]
Entrepreneur:
“Former book editor Bilik was a chronic procrastinator. The idea for her business actually came while putting off the creation of her illustrated memoir. After designing and sending belated holiday cards in January, her friends encouraged her to sell the cards. “Humor is a great way to acknowledge and excuse your own shortcomings,” Bilik says. “January” […]
TopTechNews:
“A new startup wants you to think of phone-calling fees as a one-time device purchase, not as an ongoing, monthly rate. The company, fashionably avoiding a capitalized first letter, is called ooma. It announced Thursday that, once you buy its $399 phone, you can make unlimited free calls for the life of the device.
With […]
Boston Herald:
“Launching the first part of its service next week, AuctionPal works by letting users send in photos of items they want to sell on the Internet. The company then asks customers a series of questions about their items and creates auction profiles for them on sites like eBay and Craigslist. Once the item is […]
Success Magazine:
“As president and chief dog lover of Three Dog Bakery, Scott Ragan stays ahead of the pack by offering all natural snacks and food in the booming pet food industry. Last year Three Dog Bakery, America’s leading bakery for dogs, achieved $10 million dollars in revenue, with expectations to increase by 25% each year. Alongside their […]
NJBiz:
“Instead of going to banks, which may view small-business loans as less desirable than other types of lending, many entrepreneurs are turning to local economic development organizations.
Economic development organizations, which focus on promoting economic growth in their areas by helping attract new companies and retain existing ones, are more willing than banks to take a […]
Biz Journals:
“Austin has been named a “Startup Hub” by Fast Company magazine’s annual 30 Fast Cities list.
Cities were selected based on three basic criteria: a culture that nurtures creative action and game-changing enterprise, innovation and energy. Indicators include the obscure, such as the number of ethnic restaurants or the ratio of live-music lovers to cable-TV […]
ShropShire Star:
“Joe Graham is an entrepreneur, inventor, salesman and shopkeeper. He’s launched two companies and helped to design and market a brand new product. He’s been a museum technician and teacher. He’s given talks and networked at Shropshire Chamber of Commerce.
And he’s still only 18.
The term ‘whizz kid’ could have been coined for Joe, except […]
Startups.co.uk :
“Husband and wife Melissa and Alistair Rogerson were keen to set up a business together, so when they finally came up with the right idea – an online anniversary present service – it was all go from there.
What the business does:
We offer a carefully chosen range of gifts, cards, hampers and fresh flowers so that […]
DurhamRegion:
“Driven by the desire to provide nutritious food for babies, Whitby-based entrepreneur Tanya Moore is taking her business to a new level.
Healthy Sprouts, a line of organic baby food launched by Ms. Moore in late 2004, will now be available in mainstream grocery stores — such as A and P and Dominion — throughout Ontario […]
InsideBayArea:
“Having recently celebrated her 60th birthday, Nemeth is a master at building a company from the ground up. Not just because she has built her latest company (Petlane) to more than $1 million in revenues in just three years, but because she has done it twice. Nemeth also founded Discovery Toys, which made more than $100 million […]
