Archive for October, 2006
Nurse Next Door
It took a troubling personal experience with a home health-care provider five years ago to prompt Nurse Next Door co-founder Ken Sim to conclude that homecare for seniors was a great sector in which to start up a business.
“My wife needed emergency bed rest with our first child,†Sim said in an interview.
“We had someone [...]
The Best Place to Advertise in Your Town
Better resources for locating newspapers, magazines, radio, television stations, and other potential offline advertising opportunities in most major cities? Here is a list of places in your town that you might consider testing for ROI.
Church bulletins
Public Library bulletin boards
Coffee shop bulletin boards
Grocery store bulletin boards
School sports programs
Delivery service ride along flyers
Hotel rack brochure boxes
Pizza boxes
Feel [...]
Google Docs and Spreadsheets
From Google’s acquisition of Writely coupled with Google Spreadsheet comes Google Docs and Spreadsheets. A hosted, Gmail-like service which provides (you guessed it) a hosted document and spreadsheet editor.
Just login with your Google/Gmail account to get started.
All your documents are in a nice, clean, hosted centralized location allowing you, or colleagues to access them from [...]
Bike Furniture
Andy Gregg may not have reinvented the wheel, but he has reinterpreted it.
Gregg owns Bike Furniture Designs, which transforms recycled bicycle parts into sleek, eco-friendly furniture.
Combining skills developed in art school — he is fascinated by early-20th-century furniture design — with mechanical chops he began polishing at age 10, Gregg sells his pieces on bikefurniture.com [...]
50 Most Powerful Women In Business
Call it the year of the Most Powerful Woman CEO. As a matter of fact the top seven positions on the 2006 list are held by chief executives. And the winners are…
See also Ten Highest Paid Women in Business
Rank
Name
Company
1
Indra Nooyi
PepsiCo
2
Anne Mulcahy
Xerox
3
Meg Whitman
eBay
4
Pat Woertz
Archer Daniels Midland
5
Irene Rosenfeld
Kraft Foods
6
Brenda Barnes
Sara Lee
7
Andrea Jung
Avon
8
Oprah Winfrey
Harpo Inc.
9
Sallie Krawcheck
Citigroup
10
Susan Arnold
Procter & [...]
Call-In-Sick
We’ve all been there before. In need of a mental-health day. In need of a couple more hours to sleep off that horrible hangover. Or just plain in need of a day away from thinking.
But who wants to wake up at the crack of dawn to avoid talking to the boss and pretend to sound [...]
Hot Home Business Opportunities
Homestead Technologies commissioned a study on home-based businesses and found the following as their list of “hot” opportunities that can be run from home:
E-Learning: With advances in new web application tools such as podcasts and video blogs, development costs will decrease.
E-Bay Aftermarket: Helping companies conduct market research, pricing strategies, shipping, and competitive analysis is a [...]
