Entrepreneurial companies continue to be the engine driving the nation’s economy, generating an astounding $4.6 billion in 2007 revenue. The fastest-growing of those businesses are spotlighted in the 14th annual 2008 Hot 100 listing from Entrepreneur magazine.
Of the 100 companies that made the cut for 2008, 76% had turned a profit — and 75% had […]

BookMooch, Buckman’s 20-month-old service that lets people trade their used books for the cost of postage, is making a small impression on a giant online retailer, Amazon.com. Even though BookMooch is free to members, the site generates an estimated half-million dollars in annual book sales for Amazon because of a browser plug-in called the Moochbar, […]

 
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A program at UNC Greensboro is giving students hands-on and bike-on experience, and seniors too.
Twice a week, students in the Health and Human Performance program visit residents at the WhiteStone: A Masonic and Eastern Star Community. They team up with the home’s activity department to implement a Duet biking program.
Students and activity […]

 
Nicola Byrne, the mother of three who runs Ireland’s only native directory enquiry company, now has plans for European domination.
Yet growing up in Portmarnock in north county Dublin, Nicola didn’t have a clue what she wanted to do. After repeating her leaving certificate, she got a job in freight forwarding at Dublin airport.
Even at this […]

 
After 15 years as a flight attendant for United Airlines, Denise Bein was offered a five-year leave of absence following 9/11. In that time, Bein raised her children and began to toy with a new kind of handy bag for the kitchen.
 In fact, QuickSeals started out of Bein’s own experience as a mother. On a […]

 
The latest product from a Lexington-based industry has company owner Francisco Guerra walking around with his head in the clouds.
The product is called Flogos, which combines the words flying and “logos,” and that’s a good description of the product.
A combination of a little helium and a lot of air produces a substance that looks and […]

 
An inventor in northeastern Connecticut is selling an item he claims can help a car get 100 miles per gallon.
Michael Dabrowski has an E-Wheel under his car and an electro-converter in the front seat. Dabrowski said that when the wheel turns once, the motor turns four times, giving him 150 miles per gallon of gas.
He […]

 
On a recent Wednesday afternoon, photographer Izaz Rony waited across the street from an office building on Chambers Street in Manhattan. As he sat on a bench eating a late breakfast, a visibly pregnant young woman wearing a black-and-white striped dress walked out the door, exactly on schedule.
Rony jumped up and ran down the block, […]

 
Back in 1998 or so I read a book that really shifted my thinking about small business and the Internet. Called Striking it Rich.com (now out of print), the book profiled 23 “incredibly successful websites you probably never heard of.”
One of those sites was AsktheBuilder.com.
The book profiled the site and its owner, the builder, Tim […]

 
Alex Tew’s Million Dollar Homepage, then UKpreneur featured a young entrepreneur Pat Hankinson with his Social Millionaire website which is underway and today stands at $3362.15 and now I have noticed The Big Word Project.
Meet Paddy Donnelly and Lee Munroe. They’re selling words at a buck per letter. Donnelly, 22, and Munroe, 23 — graduate […]