When I was about seven, and heavily influenced by Encyclopedia Brown, I opened my first business. I’ve never been one for short business names, and “Dane’s Detective Agency” was no different. I put a cardboard sign on my bike and rode around the neighborhood looking for cases. My marketing program was unsuccessful, […]
PR WEB:
You’ve completed the weekly wash and as you’re pairing up socks for the drawer, you discover one or more have mysteriously disappeared. Sound familiar?
Well, worry no more because a clever entrepreneur from San Francisco has devised a creative solution to this irritating phenomenon.
Edwin Heaven is the inventor of THROX, the first socks to come […]
I was running some errands today when I passed a public storage business.
On their sign out front they offered “Santa Clausets” for customers to hide/store gifts until Christmas for just $10. I thought to myself, what a fantastic idea!
My guess is that the storage business is a little slow in the month of December and […]
Posted by on 04 Dec 2007 at 9:19 am under Humor, Video
Sung to the tune of Billy Joel’s “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” this music video by the San Francisco-based Richter Scales is pure genius.
Original post by Dane and software by Elliott Back
Fortune Small Business:
Isaac Daniel will never forget the call alerting him that his 8-year-old son had disappeared from his school bus queue. Daniel was in New York City on a business trip and immediately jumped on a plane home to Atlanta - only to learn that his boy had sneaked back into school. “He didn’t […]
Press Banner:
Jerry Toste is only 21 and seems to have a perpetual smile on his face. He should — his low-tech startup, Cheap Hauling, is on everyone’s lips: Those trucks are everywhere.
Toste is grossing $800,000 per year after 1½ years in business, not bad for a guy who decided that “college and I just don’t […]
Valerie Khoo at MySmallBusiness:
When I first started out as an entrepreneur, I worked out of home.
One of the best pieces of advice I received was: “Get out of your pyjamas as soon as possible.”
In other words, even though you are working from home, you need to change your mind-set and start the day by “going […]
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