Start-Up
Trips to barbershop inspired entrepreneur
Brian Egeston of Stone Mountain grew up with a truck driver dad who was happy with what he had. Egeston grew into a man who was always looking for something better. An entrepreneur, a dreamer.
Someone crazy enough, in a bad economy and with a newborn son, to start a free local magazine about barbershops. Someone [...]
Entrepreneur Training Program For Displaced Workers Ramps Up
GRAND RAPIDS, MI (Michigan Radio) – A program to help displaced workers start their own business is expanding.
The program, called FastTrac has been used in recent years to teach people how to start their own business.
Now, the Michigan Small Business & Technology Development Center says FastTrac will expand dramatically, and train close to 800 people [...]
It’s Never Too Late to Start
At 73, René Burton is living her passion and helping those over 55 get physically fit so they can live life to the fullest.
René Burton personifies the name of her business–It’s Never Too Late. Like so many of us, Burton knew what her passion was, but life had other ideas.
At age 57 Burton earned [...]
Teen’s invention puts YouTube music on tap
A schoolboy and his father have unleashed software that lets people listen to YouTube’s vast collection of music videos as if it were a private collection.
Muziic software created by 15-year-old David Nelson enables computers to mine YouTube’s rich database of songs and play customised lists of tunes free of charge.
“The Muziic player is a pretty [...]
Largest Solar Thermal Storage Plant to Start Up
A few weeks from now, the Andasol 1 solar thermal power plant in Andalucía, Spain, will begin charging the largest installation built expressly for storing renewable energy (other than the tried-and-true hydroelectric dam, of course). Heat from the solar thermal power station’s 510 000-square-meter field of solar collectors will be stored in 28 500 tons [...]
Inventors Hope “Bataround” Is A Big Hit
After numerous prototypes and years of tinkering, Rick Chambers and Larry Kost believe they’ve invented the perfect apparatus to accomplish just that: The Bataround.
It doesn’t sound like much: an elongated stainless steel frame, connected to an aviation cable with a batting practice ball bolted to the end. But with one person swinging the device in [...]
Help for handing over a family business
CNN Money
Whether a child is groomed to take over the family business or mistakenly pushed into it, problems often arise when family and authority mix.
“Being in an emotional relationship and a business relationship puts a different, more difficult kind of strain on relationships,” said Getzler, who inherited his consulting firm from his father.
Difficult-to-solve personality issues [...]
