Archive for the 'Start Up' Category

If you have a daughter, then you’re probably aware of how many young women tend to be very fashion forward. Either they know what they want, or they keep tabs on the latest trends. Tanya Murphy noticed how passionate her own daughter was about fashion when inspiration hit her.
Having just launched Design-Girls.com around [...]

Carroll County Times:
About a year ago, Finksburg mom Beth Merz asked her 14-year-old baby sitter what she was doing for the weekend.

When the teenager said she was hanging out with her friends at a local gas station, Merz was surprised.
“I was like, ‘What do you mean?’” Merz said.
Fed up with the county’s lack of activities [...]

Anyone with a child in school knows how much art they can bring home in just one school year. These silly little drawings and paintings are symbols of childhood, but they also tend to take up a lot of room. Even if you have plenty of space to store them, time ages all [...]

BCLocalNews.com:
With the recent loss of hundreds of jobs in the South Okanagan and Similkameen, there are now plenty of people on Employment Insurance.
For some, starting a business of their own is the answer to providing themselves with a decent income.

Community Futures Okanagan Similkameen offers a program named SEEB (Self-Employment Employment Benefits) that will get them [...]

The Mercury:
Back to school time has special meaning for Mandy Lobaugh this year.
This is the first school year for her newly-opened business, Creative Minds Montessori School.

The school, which occupies the extensively renovated top floor of a structure which had previous incarnations as an indoor mini-golf business and a furniture store, officially opened in July and [...]

TheWestonForum.com:
Liz Waltzman of Weston has launched Bibliotechies.com, a new online book recommendation site for children, young adults, and their parents.
Bibliotechies has partnered with Amazon, which will provide direct link and purchase options to age and interest-specific book suggestions throughout the site.

Bibliotechies, geared toward a broad range of young readers (Infants to 15), provides book suggestions [...]

Deseret News:
Rebecca Davidson didn’t set out to be an inventor or an entrepreneur. She just wanted to stop throwing away dried-out markers every two weeks.

So she designed the Cap Trapper — her answer for missing marker lids, children putting caps in their mouths and dried-out pens that are good for nothing else but the garbage. [...]

KHNL NBC 8:
It’s a tough time for the nation’s economy. Economists say the dollar is weak, costs are rising, and in general, people are buying less. With all that bad news, who would want to start a business?

It seems counterintuitive to want to open doors to a new business, at a time when customers are [...]

The Dallas Morning News:
For Jemetra Fisher of McKinney, it all started with mom’s iced tea.
“When I was a teenager, my friends used to come over and want my mom to make iced tea because it was so good,” said Ms. Fisher, who recently started up a beverage company with her husband, Bryan.

For years, everyone who [...]

The Herald News:
Owner: Trisha Smith
Web: www.poshandnaughty.com

What do you offer?
Lingerie and bedroom accessories.
Why did you decide to start this business?
I’m a single mother with entrepreneurial ambition who works full time and desires to be a success and inspiration to other single mothers who want to succeed. I also want to assist in the enhancement of intimacy [...]