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smSmallBusiness.com:
Launching or maintaining a small business in this environment isn’t easy.
Access to start-up or growth capital is more limited these days. And many business owners expect increased economic hardships to come. According to the Buffalo Grove, Ill., management consulting firm International Profit Associate’s Small Business Research Board, the Small Business Confidence Index conducted in July […]
AP Business:
What pushed Priscilla Maddox was the relentless smell of vanilla.
Maddox was toying with launching a cookie line after retiring from her 36-year hospital care job, but was overwhelmed by the vanilla smell in her apartment. When she couldn’t find a kitchen to rent, she started a rent-a-kitchen that has become a small-business incubator for […]
Burlington Free Press:
She’s never done a triple salchow but that doesn’t mean Laurie Hammond hasn’t been part of several gold medal figure skating performances.
Hammond owns Triple Loop, a skating and dance supply store in Colchester which has been around for almost 11 years.
Hammond is a seamstress and long had aspirations to be a clothing designer. […]
BusinessWeek:
Richard Ludlow turned down a job offer from McKinsey and deferred admission to Harvard Business School to start Academic Earth, an online hub for videos of university lectures and other educational content.
Backed by angel funding, the goal of Academic Earth, which Ludlow plans to launch in September, is to make university lectures and course material […]
BusinessWeek:
In 2001, Johnny Earle dropped out of music college after just two weeks. On a lark, he made a T-shirt with an image of a cupcake atop a pair of cross bones. The trenchantly iconic design got noticed and people started asking to buy his tees.
Earle began selling them out of the trunk of his […]
YoungEntrepreneur:
Starting a business is fun. Planning a business is not as fun. So how do you take your fresh idea and turn it into a viable business without sacrificing your enthusiasm in the process? Here are some ways to get started now.
Plan well, but plan quickly.
You know you need a business plan. (You do know […]
HartfordBusiness.com:
Putting their best face forward, an increasing number of job candidates are applying for jobs by e-mailing prospective employers a video resume.
It’s a trend that is gaining in popularity. A year ago, YouTube counted about 1,700 resumes; it now counts nearly 29,000.
A Rocky Hill startup wants to jump on the video resume bandwagon and help […]
If you were to look in your wallet, how many unused gift cards would you find? It doesn’t matter if you don’t know what to do with them or if you like to use them at your favorite stores, Gift Card Rescue.com is determined to help. For those that are interested in […]
No matter where you go or what channel you watch on TV, there are endless commercials for women’s products. Where as most people wouldn’t blink an eye, some men would have to wonder, “What about me?”
Joe Rowett is the Managing Director for Man Junk, a business dedicated to men’s products. Their organic body […]
BusinessWeek:
The 30% interest rate on their small business credit card shocked James and Heather Hills enough to stop using it entirely in April.
The couple had turned to credit cards in early 2006 to get their Elgin (Ill.) startup, mhn Internet Marketing and PR, off the ground, after three loan officers told them that they wouldn’t […]
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