Work at Home Business Ideas

The following guest post is by Colin Mooney.
My school motto was - “Mól an óige agus tiocfaidh sí” - This is Irish for “Encourage the young, and they will succeed”.
This is no more evident than in the case of the IBM interns at the “Extreme Blue Lab” in Dublin, Ireland. A group of 2006 interns […]

Entrepreneur:
Take note of recent strides in understanding how our brains control sleep, learning, memory and other functions, and–even more important–how we can improve these faculties.
Improved brain imaging has opened windows into how we learn, remember, recover and rest.
Coupled with new insights into the genetic underpinnings of brain development as well as new products in neuropharmacology–brain […]

The Associated Press:
Saws clatter on the workshop floor, where craftsmen stamp out the rounded sides of what will become a red toy pushcar and slice dozens of dragon figures out of a 2-foot-long dowel.
One building over, large drums rumble, shaking hundreds of wooden grasping rings beneath a steady drip of water-based lacquer. The process, which […]

Fortune Small Business Magazine:
Here is how Marla Cilley, better known as FlyLady, runs her business. Every morning she rolls out of bed and starts nagging. She sends a first e-mail to her 400,000 subscribers at about 7 A.M., reminding them to get up and get dressed.
Throughout the day she’ll send about ten more e-mails from […]

The Cape Breton Post:
Matt Swan was looking for a way to build a local business that would enable him to stay home in Cape Breton, earn a living and spend more time with his young family.
One day, he was looking at a common local image made up of lines and squares, and it hit him: […]

Cupcake entrepreneur Johnny Cupcakes doesn’t offer up actual cupcakes, alas, but items to wear while you consume them. Check out this shop for all sorts of cool t-shirt and other designs (constantly changing, all limited edition). He was recently on MTV News and was profiled on Experience.com.
Original post by Rachel and software by Elliott Back

BizReport:
A recent study from McKinsey indicates that marketers may get a nice boost by targeting different news websites.
According to the study news readers get their news fix from as many as sixteen different online and offline news hubs each week.
Researchers polled users about their habits of consuming news across radio, television, newspapers, magazines and the […]

Our reader Laurel in Chicago just sent us this note, and in Gawker Stalker style, we’re going to post it in full. We tend to link to and hype bakeries that exclusively sell cupcakes or focus on them, but there are also plenty of full-service bakeries offering up extremely yummy cupcakes. If you have tips […]

Kylie Lambert consistently posts some of the most absolutely gorgeous cupcakes we’ve ever seen on Flickr. Do check her out there and at her for-hire site Le Cupcake (in Australia, alas for us in other parts of the world).
Original post by Rachel and software by Elliott Back