Work at Home Business Ideas

ReadWriteWeb:
Sir Tim Berners-Lee’s vision for a Semantic Web has been The Next Big Thing for a long time now. Indeed it’s become almost mythical, like Moby Dick.
In a nutshell, the Semantic Web is about machines talking to machines.
It’s about making the Web more ‘intelligent’, or as Berners-Lee himself described it: computers “analyzing all the data […]

Associated Press:
Anita Roddick, founder of the international Body Shop cosmetics chain, died Monday night after suffering a major brain hemorrhage, her family said. She was 64.
Roddick, who died at a hospital in Chichester, had revealed in February that she contracted hepatitis C through a blood transfusion while giving birth to a daughter in 1971. She […]

Both from Flickr user Anne Jujuba
Original post by Rachel and software by Elliott Back

Fast Company:
What kind of job did you have at 17?
I posed that question to the grown-ups I encountered recently while exploring Whateverlife.com. The teen-girl site and company was started by Ashley Qualls, an entrepreneur from a working-class neighborhood outside Detroit, who happens to be 17 herself.
One of the many fascinating things about Whateverlife is that […]

Terri Lonier at Working Solo eNews:
The Inc. 500 list has just been published, and every year I find it intriguing to chart how many firms are SOHO (small office/home office) companies — generally defined as having 20 or fewer employees.
This year, nearly one in four (23%, or 115 companies)are members of the SOHO ranks. Remarkably, […]

BloggingStocks.com:
Most young companies dream of getting their first heavyweight customer — a huge player, central to their industry, like Google Inc., or better yet, a General Electric.
Snaring such a customer can change an entrepreneur’s fortunes overnight. Of course. But how do you gain the attention and trust of a large and important company? It’s certainly […]

PendleToday:
Ray Britner transformed himself from tree feller to inventor after an accident which left him with sight in just one eye.
The local council now uses his most famous creation, a special blast cleaner named Doris, to clean graffiti from public places.
John David, Executive member for the environment, said: “Before Doris came along, removing graffiti was […]

Tennesseean.com:
Operating costs include expenses necessary to produce a product or provide a service. That includes salaries and wages, raw material costs, and the cost of any facilities that go directly toward producing the product or providing the service.
Bootstrapping operating costs through outsourcing can help owners get to break-even sooner and improve profit margins as the […]

Cupcake Fetish continues to astound us with their huge amount of information. They’ve recently returned from a cross-country cupcake crawl:It’s been two weeks since we’ve returned from our cross-country cupcake extravaganza and we’ve recovered enough to write up a little roundup. The trip was not at all what we were expecting; there was excitement […]

A chocolate-covered strawberry on top of a cupcake! Oh my. From Cupcakes on Pitt via Flickr user fruitcakey
Original post by Rachel and software by Elliott Back