Work at Home Business Ideas

The Sunday Times:
Time to buff up your brain, to send your synapses to the spa. How about a couple of hours of sudoku? No? Well, fire up your Nintendo DS and pump up your neurons with Dr Kawashima’s Brain Training games — “Keep your brain sharp and in shape.”
“These games definitely work because you get […]

CourierPostOnline.com:
In the era of Nintendo’s, Playstations and thousands of computer games, kids are continuing to get lost in a world of fantasy and violence, and experiencing disconnect from their families. One Pennsylvania father decided to do the unthinkable, design and develop an educational board game to make mathematics fun.
Flashcar, the brainchild of Matthew Chalal, provides […]

The Wall Street Journal:
Someone’s college major may be a good predictor of whether he or she eventually becomes an entrepreneur.
A new working paper by the Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy follows the career choices of 1993 college graduates with bachelor’s degrees using data gathered by the U.S. Department of Education, and looks at four […]

BusinessWeek:
Forget social networking.
The next big Web-based thing is going to be “knowledge sharing.”
So says Benjamin Wald, who dropped out of Babson College his sophomore year to start a business that capitalizes on this concept, with his fraternity brother, Dean “Tyler” Jenks, who also dropped out (he was in his senior year).
Knetwit, which launched about a […]

LifeHack:
Lately, I’ve been simultaneously using less and less of what I learned in school while discovering more and more skills that are vital to success which were never even offered in school!
So what are the top skills that should be taught to every man, woman, and child who enters our education system?
• How to […]

Small Business Idea:
Entrepreneurs have an insatiable thirst for novelty and information.
Quench this thirst with a library card instead of your wallet. You can still buy items for your personal library later on (items you’ve checked out of the library 3 times), but 90% of the stuff you buy or think you want you’ll never end […]

Northern Life.ca:
Sudbury Catholic District School Board, one of a handful of school boards outside of Toronto to embrace programs run by The Learning Partnership, will offer a third program to its students starting in January 2009.
The Learning Partnership is a non-profit group that champions public education and creates a culture in which students love learning […]

Seth Prezant and his wife were discussing what to do for their son’s fifth birthday party.
The thought of paying money for birthday clowns, bounce-houses, and cartoon characters were not appealing and there seemed to be few available educational venues that also offered entertainment for children’s parties. Prezant’s son loved animals, especially bugs.
So Prezant decided to […]

The New York Times:
The college campus, it turns out, can be an ideal incubator for hatching small businesses.
Nanina’s Gourmet Sauce, a pasta sauce company based in Belleville, N.J., was started, for instance, in 2005 by students taking an entrepreneurship course at Monmouth University in West Long Branch, N.J.
Nanina’s products are now sold in nearly 400 […]

telegram.com:
Abraham Lincoln applied for a patent this week (March 10) in 1849 for a device he invented that would lift boats over shoals and sandbars, and help them navigate shallow waters. He is the only president ever to have applied for, and received, a U.S. patent — Patent No. 6469.
Which actually explains a lot about […]