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Entrepreneur.com:
One of the reasons so many people don’t become entrepreneurs is because they’re afraid of failing. They’re afraid of making mistakes. They’re afraid of losing money. But if people can’t overcome these psychological fears, they’d be better off keeping their day jobs.
Robert Kiyosaki, author of the Rich Dad series of books, says there are three [...]
Robyn Crispe’s company, Nomad Needles, makes the Worm Inn, a composting system for people who live in urban areas.
Crispe was concerned about her own volume of food waste, which she couldn’t compost outdoors at her condo.
After searching online for indoor composting ideas, she came across vermicomposting, also known as worm composting.
The Worm Inn is designed [...]
Inc.:
By his own admission, Paul Mann used to be a corporate stiff. All that changed — almost by accident, Mann admits — one day back in 2002 when he was looking for someone to watch his dog in a pinch. “I got very few responses back to my query,” he recalls. “And the people [...]
York Daily Record:
You just never know what will be the breaking point; the moment you’re forced into action. Or, when things get so bad you just can’t take it anymore.
For Wanda Lamparter Stover, it happened the first time in 2001. After 24 years in the work force, she found herself unemployed.
“You feel totally lost,” she [...]
ABC News:
If you can’t find someone to hire you, consider hiring yourself. Not only can entrepreneurship bring great personal fulfillment, but launching a small business doesn’t have to break the bank.
Here’s how Tory Johnson started her own business with virtually no money.
“In 1999 I started Women for Hire to put on career fairs. I [...]
The Wall Street Journal:
Being unemployed gives me a large chunk of discretionary time, but only a finite amount of which I can dedicate to a job search. The law of diminishing returns kicks in and it’s better to focus efforts elsewhere for the sake of productivity, not to mention sanity.
I’ve always wanted to run my [...]
TechCrunch:
My name’s Scott. I’m 13 and have launched a web startup.†So began an email exchange over last weekend which culminated with me chatting to Scott’s mum today to verify, that, indeed, he was actually 13 and really had launched a blogging site for people in Scotland.
ScotBlog.net is essentially a social network for people in [...]
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The founder of Crate and Barrel said that it was ignorance and
inexperience that got his first store started.
“We didn’t know anything about retail,” Segal recalled. “I had grown up in the restaurant business, so I knew about
service but not about retail. We didn’t know a market from a markdown. We didn’t know [...]
The New York Times:
Peter Zummo, a senior double-majoring in design and mechanical engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is used to explaining the products he thinks up for his studio-class assignments. But last spring, he found himself answering questions of a different kind in a conference room at Rensselaer’s office of technology commercialization, which tracks and [...]
Montana’s News Station:
A Missoula-based Internet company recently launched “Pet Living Wills” as a way to protect your favorite dog, cat or goldfish when you are not there.
If you could speak on behalf of your pets, what would you say is a question MaryEllen Campbell asked when a horse she was watching for a friend came [...]
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