KXAN.com:
In the mid-20th century, the electric guitar caught on in a big way. A quarter century later, it was the synthesizer. After another quarter century, Austin resident Jim Plamondon says thinks he has his thumb on the next big musical invention.
“First of all, my wife and daughter were taking piano lessons and complaining bitterly that […]
NFIB:
411SmallBusinessFacts.com is a searchable data base of approximately 2,000 facts about American small businesses and their owners (or managers) produced by the NFIB Research Foundation.
The Foundation developed this information from telephone surveys of small employers – those employing from one person in addition to the owner(s) to 250. Data collection began in 2001 and […]
Forbes:
A chocolate chip cookie changed Heidi Roizen’s life.
Roizen, 49, is one of Silicon Valley’s best-known venture capitalists. She has been a pivotal player in the valley for years, and counts both Bill Gates and Warren Buffett among her friends. In the 1980s, Roizen co-founded a software company with her brother, and then came up with […]
Posted by on 14 Dec 2007 at 11:06 am under Ideas, Food
Business Week has an interesting interview with Rick Field, owner of Rick’s Picks about how he makes money with pickles:
Some of the things that were fun about pickling as a hobby proved to be inefficient and costly in the business world. We discovered that those quaint etched-glass squared-off Mason jars didn’t roll right in a […]
The New York Times:
It has long been known that dyslexics are drawn to running their own businesses, where they can get around their weaknesses in reading and writing and play on their strengths. But a new study of entrepreneurs in the United States suggests that dyslexia is much more common among small-business owners than even […]
Original post by Rich and software by Elliott Back
Earlier this week, I asked what structure most of the readers were using. Turns out that an incredibly high percentage of you are sole proprietors.
Original post by Dane and software by Elliott Back
Sweet Greetings is a personalized lawn stork and all occasion yard card rental business opportunity. They offer 4 to 7 foot personalized birth, birthday and other occasion plastic lawn announcements.
How Does The Business Work?
For the birth announcement storks, when a baby is born customers call and order a lawn stork. The business labels the […]
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