Archive for September, 2007

MSNBC:
When it comes to family-owned businesses, fathers and sons have long been considered the classic entrepreneurial team. But the explosive growth of women-owned businesses has paved the way for a new breed of entrepreneurial pairing: mother-daughter businesses. Although no concrete statistics have been compiled for the number of mother-daughter businesses nationwide, family-business experts say […]

Hudson Star-Observer:
Felicity Plansky thinks she knows what stay-at-home mothers like her want.
“We want good coffee. Good food. Comfortable seating. We want to know that our children are safe and secure. And it needs to be clean.”
They want a place where they can meet with their friends for a cup of espresso coffee without having their […]

Daily Herald:
Tammy Hockett knows a little bit about craft projects.
When you’re looking for ways to stay close to your 10-year-old twin daughters and keep them and their friends entertained, you get used to working with paint and paste, stencils and stamps.
Tammy Hockett knows a little about adversity, too.
When you’re a divorced mom who’s endured 16 […]

Deseret Morning News:
For Kristy Lee, scrapbooking isn’t just for her kids. That is, keeping her photos of her babies and tracking her family’s life.
It’s a career and a showcase opportunity for her creativity.
Lee is a scrapbook designer with five children, two Internet jobs and a bunch of magazines that feature her ideas.
She designs for the […]

Business.MaineToday.com:
Q: How did you get started?
A: My friend Kelly L’Heureux was the former owner. She’s another soccer mom who lives in Falmouth, and had the business in her home and was selling it, so I bought it from her. She had bought it several years before, when it was the Poplar Ridge Cookie Company, […]

The Huffington Post:
Motherhood didn’t hit me right away. It was exhilarating yet not quite real when I felt the first kicks in my belly…exciting yet hazy during our monthly sonograms and birthing classes. Not even after delivery, as I stared at two tiny bassinets wondering how the heck I was supposed to feed two wailing […]

Ebay:
Mommy’s Company.com has been mentioned by ABC News, seen in Simply Home Magazine, CleverParents.com, ConnectingMoms.com, and is a staple in the online mom world. The site is also linked on WomenEntrepreneur.com, a premier business website!
Mommy’s Company has worked with everyone from Darla Shine of the Happy Housewives Club to Victoria Pericon, the owner of SavvyMommy.com […]

News Blaze:
Ever popular alligator embossed spike-heels, slick patent-leather Mary Janes, almond-shaped toe metalics, chunky-heeled ankle boots, we-want-them-all, and a pair of those new wedges too, all carefully arranged on the livingroom dining table this weekend.
“Build a better mousetrap and they will come,” or in this case build a better show outlet, and hard pressed for […]

Lower Hudson Online:
The parents and children of Chappaqua know Penny Auntie 5&10 as a place where they can find fun and quirky toys and gifts.
For the women who have owned the store during its nearly 30-year history, it’s a place where they could find a life that balances family and work.
Cross River resident Karen Lustig, […]

The Murfreesboro Post:
Danny and Rebecca Westergard have never been ones to take things slowly.
When it is right, they know.
“We don’t like to sit back and say, “What if?” she said.
It doesn’t matter if the decision is about their relationship or the business they opened Aug. 1
The Westergards opened Barfield Paint & Supply at 220 Barfield […]