Ideas & Opportunities
What it takes to make money, growing mushrooms
The shiitake mushroom wasn’t grown in the U.S. until the late 1970’s. Before that they were imported as dehydrated mushrooms from China. But we found out some people in the Chippewa Valley are now making money, by growing their own shiitake mushrooms.
Deidra Barrickman has been growing the full flavored mushroom for 12 years on a [...]
15 Top Office and Home-Based Jobs for Seniors
Anyone looking for work knows the job market is tough and likely to stay that way for a long time. To help retirement-age job seekers, RetirementJobs.com has put together what it says is a carefully developed list of attractive positions outside the home and for those seeking at-home jobs.
Here are the 15 best job opportunities [...]
Start Up Competition in Silicon Valley
You might call it the “American Idol” competition of the entrepreneur set, as young inventors from all over the world are competing at Cisco in Santa Clara.
It’s called the Global Business Plan Competition, and it’s co-sponsored by Draper Fisher Jurvetson. Sixteen teams of university students from throughout the world are competing for $250,000 in [...]
I Just Made $250K From App Store In Two Months
Steve Demeter developed the iPhone puzzle game Trism as a side project, but now he’s quitting his day job. Why? Because he says he’s generated $250,000 in profits since he started selling the $4.99 game on iTunes this summer. That’s after Apple (AAPL) has taken its 30% cut of total sales, and after subtracting his [...]
Inventors seek pot of gold through TeleBrands
You’ve probably never heard of Rachel Taylor. But it won’t be long before you can turn on the TV and hear hard-sell pitches — again and again — to buy the one-size-fits-all hair clip she invented.
Taylor is a rare winner in a world of inventors bedeviled by losers. She recently earned a much-sought-after chance to [...]
Property Room: Where Cops Sell Stolen Goods
Property Room is an online police auction site that sells “hot” or stolen goods. It turns out that replacing the classic police auction is good business.
PropertyRoom.com is set up as a kind of eBay for police auctions. Items are sold in categories including jewelry, fine art, tools, bicycles, watches and “everything else.” The site was [...]
A Look at the Membership Site Business
Running a membership site has exploded in popularity as an Internet business model. Online business owners are finally recognizing what the “early adopters” discovered years ago: membership sites can be extremely profitable, have a low start-up cost, and can actually be fun to run.
The concept is easy enough. You have some information, knowledge, or passion [...]
