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The New York Times:
Michelle Goodman writes:
No one ever filled a gas tank or bought groceries with exposure. The 20.9 million Americans working as consultants, freelancers, small-business owners and independent contractors are not keeping a roof overhead by getting paid in exposure, or “PIE,” as I’ve taken to calling it.
But writers, illustrators and other creative types […]
MarketWatch:
Grameen America, a microfinance organization based on the Grameen lending model, announced it has successfully disbursed more than $1 million in micro-loans to low-income women, many of whom are immigrants, in Queens, New York.
Grameen America is a microfinance organization with a mission to alleviate poverty through entrepreneurship. In January 2008, Grameen America launched its first […]
The New York Times:
Joel Moss Levinson always knew he had a calling in life. But it took cheap video cameras, YouTube and some desperate corporations to show him what it was.
Levinson’s skill is turning out homemade corporate commercials — what advertisers call a form of “user-generated content.” Companies, frantic to connect with younger consumers, sponsor […]
The Dallas Morning News:
Alex Counts considers Dallas his Promised Land.
More individuals here support his crusade to give small loans to really poor women than any other place on earth.
“Here, the story of self-help, entrepreneurship, people working their way out of poverty and taking charge of their lives as economic actors is a best-seller,” the 41-year-old […]
The Boston Globe:
Jeannine Conway pulls up the garage door at her shingled home near Weymouth Landing, and a visitor comes face-to-face with the Joker of “The Dark Knight” movie fame.
Conway has been meticulous in replicating the character on her lifesize mannequin - right down to the harlequin pattern on his shirt - that it might […]
Post-Crescent:
In a time when more corporations are searching for ways to automate customer service, entrepreneurs who cater to people constantly on the go are filling a niche.
The days of house calls are not over.
Business owners are earning livings by offering their services either at their clients’ homes or on their clients’ schedules.
For some owners, offering […]
Etsy:
Alissa Sampogna had signed up to sell on Etsy just over a year ago in February of 2007. Within the span of a year, Alissa not only set up shop, MewPaperArts, but she was able to quit her cubicle day job. She is now her own boss and living her dream of running her […]
The Register-Guard:
Life is sweet when you can turn a hobby into a successful business, and perhaps doubly so when your product tastes good with peanut butter.
That’s how it is for several home-based Lane County businesses that make, among other things, jams and jellies from local fruit or who harvest honey from their own hives. These […]
The Washington Post:
A former high school football player, Billy Mays dropped out of West Virginia University and worked for his father’s hazardous-waste trucking company.
In 1983, he ran into a high school friend who was heading to Atlantic City to sell Ginsu knives on the boardwalk, then the pitchman capital of the United States. “He said, […]
MarcandAngel.com:
What most people don’t realize is that you never really work for anyone but yourself.
The only question is: What are you selling, and to whom?
Even when you have a full time, salaried, “Corporate America” position, you are still running your own business. You are selling one unit of your existence (an hour of your […]
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