Money.Cnn.com:
Monday marks start of National Small Business Week (NSBW), a five-day event intended to spotlight the accomplishments of America’s entrepreneurs and draw policymakers’ attention to the challenges confronting them. But after more than 50 years, the annual Small Business Administration-run event still remains off the radar of many small business owners.
Started in 1963 to spotlight […]
Entrepreneur:
After 15 years as a flight attendant for United Airlines, Denise Bein was offered a five-year leave of absence following 9/11. In that time, Bein raised her children and began to toy with a new kind of handy bag for the kitchen.
In fact, QuickSeals started out of Bein’s own experience as a mother. On a […]
NFIB:
Aspiring filmmakers can win $5,000 in cash and an all-expenses-paid trip to Washington, D.C., in a new “Small Business Works for America” video contest sponsored by America’s leading small business association, the National Federation of Independent Business.
Video artists simply need to create a 30-second clip that answers the question “Why does small business work for […]
The Duxbury Reporter:
Most youths want to spend their summer vacation lounging at the beach, hanging out with their friends or playing outside, but not 13-year-old Jake Genereux. This summer, he is beginning his first business venture — selling hot dogs at the town pier.
Jake’s mother Wendy said he has been an entrepreneur since he was […]
digtriad:
A program at UNC Greensboro is giving students hands-on and bike-on experience, and seniors too.
Twice a week, students in the Health and Human Performance program visit residents at the WhiteStone: A Masonic and Eastern Star Community. They team up with the home’s activity department to implement a Duet biking program.
Students and activity leaders ride a […]
Entrepreneur:
Last year, we told you about the microlending site, Kiva.org.
Now, the site–which helps developing-world entrepreneurs achieve their business dreams–has partnered up with Advanta to up the ante. It’s called KivaB4B, and through it, customers can make small loans to Kiva entrepreneurs using Advanta business credit cards. Once a grant has been issued by an Advanta […]
WikiHow:
The celebration of Earth Day on April 22nd began in the United States in 1970 and was the brainchild of Senator Gaylord Nelson, who had long pondered about finding a way to “put the environment into the political ‘limelight’ once and for all” (his words).
There are actually two Earth Day celebrations (the other one is […]
Independent.ie:
Nicola Byrne, the mother of three who runs Ireland’s only native directory enquiry company, now has plans for European domination.
“I was having a baby and I was so sick that I had to quit work,” she explains. Typically, she used the lay-up as an opportunity to set up her own business selling advertising on tickets. […]
When a parent has a new child, they want to hold that child close as much as possible. The problem is we need our hands to do other things as well. That is what makes baby carriers so great. As parents we also want to make sure we’re comfortable with the carrier, […]
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