Start-Up
6 Steps To Creating A Super Startup
If you want to be an entrepreneur, you’re in good company. An average of 464,000 adults a month create new businesses, according to the most recent statistics available from the Kauffman Foundation, which tracks and promotes entrepreneurship. Technorati Profile But starting a business is a complicated, risky, all-consuming effort. Indeed, just two-thirds of new small [...]
A mother’s race for a cure
It took a few years before Martine Rothblatt got used to describing her daughter’s chronic lung disease as a lucrative market opportunity. “I choked every time I said it – it sounded so immoral,” says Rothblatt, 52. But when she realized that the fastest track to a cure was to launch a biotech firm and [...]
Beer Belly
Books Lambert, who runs TheBeerbelly.com as president of Under Development Inc., is also someone who might have been viewed by some as having a less-than-perfect business model for his venture. But — after the press picked up on his contraption and he got 1 million hits to his fledgling site, as well as about 80 [...]
One Number That Will Ring All Your Phones
Millions of people have more than one phone number these days — home, work, cellular, hotel room, vacation home, yacht — and with great complexity comes great hassle. You have to check multiple answering machines. You miss calls when people try to reach you on your cell when you’re at home (or the other way [...]
Hair Care For Men Without
In the late 1980s, Michael Jordan shaved it all off. Soon, the world was examining the scalps of Bruce Willis, Andre Agassi, Moby and just about one token character on every TV show — not to mention a swarm of Oscar nominees and presenters this year, including Jack Nicholson (who had shaved his head for [...]
Web Site Aims To Help Women Seal Deal
Women decide or in some way influence most of the car and truck purchases in the United States — more than 80 percent, according to some estimates. But talk to women about their auto-buying experience in showrooms, and you’ll find that many aren’t thrilled. Salespeople who ignore the woman when a man and woman are [...]
America’s Next Business Tycoons
17-year-old Jake Fisher and Weina Scott, who met via an online message board, started their business in June 2005. Switchpod is a podcasting hosting service that provides both free and premium accounts. You can create a podcast with their technology, upload it to Switchpod and be podcasting to the world in a matter of minutes. [...]
