Work at Home Business Ideas

Whether you’re an entrepreneur that also homeschools (like my family), or you would just like to teach your child the basics of starting their own business, the website Homeschool-Entrepreneur.com is a new and growing resource to help. Compiled by veteran homeschool/entrepreneurs, it offers resources for starting a home business, and teaching your children […]

The New York Times:
In 2000, Bobbi Reed moved from Denver to Sydney, Australia, for a month and ran a V.I.P. hospitality suite at the Summer Olympic Games.
Two years later, at the Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, she and her team hosted 1,100 telecommunication workers, handling their food, housing and transportation.
As head of her own […]

zenhabits:
One of the keys to happiness — as well as productivity and effectiveness at work — is finding work you love, that you’re passionate about. Work you want to do, instead of just have to do.
1. It won’t find you — you have to seek it. Doing the same ol’ thing everyday […]

MarketWatch:
When asked whether they would work for someone else if that job promised more money than they currently make, 59% of small-business owners said they’d turn that job down and continue with their own business, according to the monthly survey in June of 1,000 businesses with five or fewer employees. Still, 30% said they’d take […]

Wall Street Journal:
The May 12 Sichuan earthquake left 19-year-old Yin Dan homeless. It also awakened the entrepreneur in her.
When workmen started building temporary housing nearby last month, one wandered up the hill looking for a shave and a haircut.
The chance encounter spurred Ms. Yin, who had been employed in a beauty shop, to go into […]

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Ten years ago, I don’t think that anyone would have classified “entrepreneur” as a career choice!
Original post by Dane and software by Elliott Back

Here’s one from last Sunday’s Close to Home.
There’s a long line in front of the women’s restroom, and no waiting at all for the men’s room. An enterprising business person has set up a stand near the women’s line selling “Men’s Disguises.”
Click the comic for a larger version.
Original post by Dane and software by […]

Kevin Kelly explains how anyone, doing anything, can be successful via the Internet. It only takes 1,000 “True Fans”:
A True Fan is defined as someone who will purchase anything and everything you produce. They will drive 200 miles to see you sing. They will buy the super deluxe re-issued hi-res box set of your […]

lifehack.org:
What would an ideal workday look like? While there might not be a single answer across the board, all of us can relate to the fact that many of our workdays are not designed for optimal productivity.
What would an ideal workday look like? While there might not be a single answer across the board, all […]

The following is a guest post by Kyle James.
Online companies that have high fixed costs, especially when those fixed costs are associated with office equipment, inventory, warehousing, and high distribution costs have the hardest time making money. A company that fit into this category was WebVan, an online grocery delivery service that went bankrupt in […]