Work at Home Business Ideas

Forbes:
We’ve all been there: drinking our morning coffee, reading the business section, washing our dogs, when–Bam!–an idea for a new gizmo or service that’s going to change the world comes crashing home. But before you liquidate your 401(k) for startup capital, step back and figure out whether your “great idea” truly translates into a money-making […]

Why wait until after college to start a business? Gocollege outlined a few great reasons why it’s never to early to start:
Minimal responsibilities: You’re calling mom and dad every so often, hanging with your friends, and doing your schoolwork. You may have a significant other. But you don’t have kids. At least, not […]

BusinessWeek:
The Internet has become a podium for rants, but Andrew Mason hopes his Web site will spur actions, not just more hot air.
ThePoint.com invites people to create or join a campaign on anything, from winterproofing Chicago with a dome to pressuring Pfizer to cut drug prices in developing countries.
Signing up is free, and site users […]

Wired:
Reed Hastings
Founder and CEO of Netflix
Canyon Video
La Honda, California
“I had a big late fee for Apollo 13. It was six weeks late, and I owed the video store $40. I had misplaced the cassette. It was all my fault. I didn’t want to tell my wife about it. And I said to myself, ‘I’m going […]

The Wall Street Journal:
As the softening economy begins to push more people into part-time jobs in place of full-time work, the part-time world is getting tougher.
Take Linda Barry of Pittsburgh, a 57-year-old gas-station cashier who typically works 40 hours a week. Her employer classifies her as part-time and gives her no health benefits because she […]

Associated Press:
Amazon.com Inc.’s brick-and-mortar competitors have yet another reason to fear the Web: a new service that lets shoppers compare prices and buy things with a few quick taps on their cell phones.
Amazon TextBuyIt lets people text the name of a product, its description or its UPC or ISBN to 262966 (that’s “Amazon” on the […]

The Age:
Pacific Hydro and the Snowy Mountains Engineering Corporation have formed a carbon services joint venture called Perenia seeking to capture the market before Australia’s emissions trading scheme starts.
The business will on-sell credits created through the Clean Development Mechanism, an instrument under the Kyoto Protocol.
The credits will be available to trade in the Australian carbon […]