Entrepreneur:
5 Easy Part-Time Online Businesses
“1.  Information marketing: We’re in the information age, and the internet provides you with the ideal medium to exchange know-how for money. Do you know the best fishing holes?  How to play guitar? The secrets to a successful marriage? A recipe for moist and delicious brownies? A trick for saving […]

Entrepreneur:
Best Facebook Apps For Business Entrepreneurs
“There are more than 35 million active members on the hot social networking site Facebook–and that’s a marketing and networking opportunity too large to ignore. A lot of entrepreneurs maintain profiles on Facebook, whether it’s to keep up with colleagues, hunt for business partners and employees, or just get their faces and […]

Seattle Post Intelligence:
“Q: I am an account manager for a large telecommunications company, but I dread going to work every day. On weekends, I wake up full of energy and work on my eBay business. I make good money at my job, but I feel as though I am in a cage and have no […]

CrainsNewYork: 
A new Web site business start-up hopes to tap into the $63 billion luxury retail market by offering steep discounts on designer labels.
The site, Gilt, sells items from one designer at a time for about 24 to 36 hours or until items are sold out. Merchandise on the site is marked down by 50% to 70%. The site […]

TechCrunch: 
New startup Mixx, which went in to private beta just two months ago, may be finding itself with the right product at the right time. Digg users, including top contributors, are showing an increasing amount of frustration with the Digg community, and many are leaving.
Chris McGill, formerly the General Manager of Yahoo News and more […]

SFGate: 
Meebo, the Web startup in Mountain View that aggregates instant messaging services onto one site, is on a drive to revolutionize the medium using outside applications.
Last month, it introduced an open platform with new voice and video services. Today, it’s introducing about 20 video games that can be shared among Meebo members.
All of that has […]

ThisIsMoney.co.uk:
Alex Tew came up with the idea for the ‘Million Dollar Homepage’, a website that sold advertising space on the internet, in 2005 while brainstorming ideas on how to make money to pay for his university career. […]
[Alex:] “I launched the Million Dollar Homepage in August 2005 and six months before I was working at […]

NWAsianWeekly:
Choosing not to follow the typical professional career path of working for a big company right out of college, Calvin admits he felt behind where he and others closest to him felt he should have been at the age of 27.
“I always came back to the same idea of putting together a venture and taking […]

WashingtonPost.com:
Rupert Murdoch’s announcement this week that he expects to stop charging for access to the Wall Street Journal’s Web site is the latest example of a publisher giving up on the subscription-based business model — a significant shift in the evolution of online content.
In recent months, the Economist, the New York Times and the Financial Times […]

SMH.com.au:
I don’t get golf. But obviously a lot of people do. And that’s great for small business entrepreneur Brad Lindenberg who has harnessed people’s love with the sport into a thriving business. Three years ago, Lindenberg had the foresight to purchase www.golfclubs.com.au for $4000. It was then owned by a photocopier repairman.
He has now parlayed […]

WiltonVillager.com:
Laurel Touby never set out to become an entrepreneur, yet she recently sold her company for $23 million.
Building a Web site was never in her mind as she pursued a creative writing career, yet her Web site has more than 700,000 registered users and gets more than a million unique visitors each month.
“I never dreamed […]

Associated Press: 
Landy Ung and her boyfriend, Wan Hsi Yuan, 27, run their online coupon business, 8coupons.com, from their 500-square-foot New York studio apartment, meaning headquarters is, effectively, their couch. The business, which text messages discounts to users’ mobile phones, keeps Yuan and Ung, who is 28, up until 3 a.m. most nights….
Ung and Yuan have put $30,000 into […]

NYSun.com:
David Karp, the 21-year-old brains behind Tumblr, a site that allows users to create Web logs in just 10 seconds, is a fresh face of the rising wave of New York dotcom entrepreneurs. […]Mr. Karp began his career as a technology guru at age 14, when he spent a summer working for Fred Seibert, a […]

EMS.gmnews.com:
With his new Web site ProHaloLeague.com and organized LAN (local area network) tournaments, Ryan Gellis, 17, hopes to move gaming from leisure to outright competition.
“The kids can play in teams with each other and can play against each other from all over the country in the comfort of their own home,” said Gellis, a freshman […]

News.Enquirer.com:
The Internet marketplace is feasting its eyes on 78 million baby boomers who, according to surveys, have embraced this virtual world to do more than e-mail family and friends.
In April, entrepreneur Herschel “Buzz” Peddicord launched Boomertowne.com. Within months he had an estimated 9,000 baby boomers signed up for free membership. And Jeff Taylor, founder of […]

Entrepreneur.com:
EBay means business, and PowerSeller status is the mark of a successful seller. Power-Sellers must meet certain requirements, such as averaging at least $1,000 in sales per month for three consecutive months and maintaining a positive feedback rating of at least 98 percent. There are five tiers of PowerSellers ranging from Bronze ($1,000 in monthly sales) to […]

Seattletimes.nwsource.com:
Let’s consider the problem of Alex Hillman, 23, Web entrepreneur, quasi-college student, and architect of the Philadelphia version of an international trend known as co-working.
“Three months working at my house, I was talking to the cat, and I don’t even have a cat,” Hillman said, describing what had happened after he quit his job as […]

NHBR.com:
Mark Galvin, 47, can best be described as a serial entrepreneur who has helped launch such New Hampshire companies as RAScom, and most notably, Cedar Point Communications.
Now president and CEO of Whaleback Systems since its incorporation in 2005, he has led the company — named after Portsmouth’s Whaleback Ledge lighthouse — to develop one of […]

WebWorkerDaily.com:
My husband and I are entrepreneurs, and together, we co-founded EBSQ Self-Representing Artists. Our business is a bit of an anomaly in the social web realm. A lot of businesses are built specifically to attract a community as its business model. Our community, founded by California artist John Seed in 2000, came built-in, so to […]

VenturaCountyStar.com:
Like a scene out of a reality show or a Disney movie, Southgate, Mich., teenager Ashley Qualls’ moment has arrived.
The 17-year-old entrepreneur, designer and self-professed computer geek was in New York City recently, pitching her wildly successful Web site, Whateverlife.com, to ad-buying agencies for the country’s biggest companies. And she made an appearance on “The […]

Seattle PI: 
“Armchair quarterbacks will be able to put their play calling skills to the test this football season thanks to a new online fantasy game from a Bellevue startup called YOUbeQB.
Unlike other fantasy leagues in which points are accumulated by the performance of individual players or the outcomes of games, YOUbeQB allows laptop-wielding fans to […]

WCCO:
“Minnesota is a land filled with lots of places to get information but, by the end of the year, there will be one more. It’s called MinnPost.com, an Internet daily run by the former publisher of the Star Tribune.
“We are not focused on quantity. We won’t be focused on updating every story every five minutes,” […]

Xconomy:
“Hubspot, a Web startup in Cambridge, MA, is all about saving businesses from their own ignorance.
It’s nobody’s fault that the rise of the Web has changed the way people find products and services in urban America and left so many entrepreneurs stuck in the era of direct-mail marketing or the Yellow Pages. But for a […]

SeattlePI:
“On Monday, Car Toys will announce a partnership with Waltham, Mass., startup Second Rotation Inc., which buys and sells old electronic items.
Under the partnership, Car Toys clerks will assess the condition of a customer’s old cell phone, GPS unit, digital camera, camcorder or MP3 player. They can then tell the customer what Second Rotation will […]

TheRegister:
“A Google-funded startup is announcing an alternate plan to bathe the 49-square-mile city in Wi-Fi. It comes at a fraction of the cost, doesn’t require the city to commit to anything, and employs hardware that’s likely to outperform anything Earthlink can provide. It may prove to be a fatal blow to Mayor Gavin Newsom’s already struggling […]