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“Mompreneurs” Partner In Bow-Making Business

The Shreveport Times:
Stay-at-home moms Amber Raines and Tammy Mayeaux know just how expensive it can be to add a little pretty to the most darling of outfits.
Raines spent nearly $200 once buying hair bows for her three daughters. But that was until two summers ago, when the crafty mother of four and Mayeaux, the mother […]

Niche Biz: Seahorses

FSB Magazine:
The owners of Ocean Rider call this variety of seahorse “Sunburst,” but its proper name is hippocampus erectus - one of 20 species that Carol Cozzi-Schmarr, 45, and her husband, Craig Schmarr, 44, breed on their ranch in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.
Ocean Rider ships more than 5,000 seahorses a year. Seven varieties are marketed as pets […]

Online Franchises

The Wall Street Journal:
Fast-food restaurants. Retail stores. Fitness chains. For most people, those are the images that come to mind when they think of a franchise.
It’s an easy idea to grasp — a successful business expands by granting others the right, for a fee, to open carbon-copy stores in untapped markets.
Now, a small but growing […]

New Way to Reach Coeds

Entrepreneur:
Have you ever wondered how your company can target the on-the-go college demographic?
One entrepreneur thinks he has the answer: Market to them at lunchtime. Jim Snouffer, the 25-year-old CEO of AdTray Marketing & Media, launched his “AdTray” program last month, working with universities to help them sell advertising space on their cafeteria trays.
AdTray partnered with […]

Startup At Age 72

Entrepreneur:
We talk about baby boomers starting businesses, and generation Y (alias millennials) starting businesses, so how about 72-year-old Shirley Kuhnley and the Sweet Spot Bakery-Deli in Monroe, Oregon?
She was 69 years old three years ago when she graduated from a nine-month culinary arts class in Portland, Oregon’s largest city. Then she worked a year at […]

Right Places To Learn Entrepreneurship

The New York Times:
Nearly 3,000 colleges offer classes in entrepreneurship, up tenfold in the last 20 years, according to the Kauffman Foundation, which is devoted to promoting “a society of economically independent individuals.”
So which school is the right place for those interested in starting their own companies?
Fortune Small Business spent seven months interviewing hundreds of […]