From the monthly archives: August 2009
When I was 19 I went to Westhaven Marina to answer an ad for a crewmember to go to Bermuda. Their yacht was full, but the one next door was heading to Australia the next day. That yacht was only 50 feet and it was skanky. The old Australian guy was a real bastard. [...]
Over the next few weeks I am going to be blogging about 10 FREE but essential business tools that can help your business and save you a fortune in these programs – the first one is CRM software. Every start-up founder uses free or inexpensive online resources to get his or her company launched. Chadd Bennett [...]
Some of cyberspace’s biggest websites and the computer industry’s most powerful companies were once nothing more than a few big dreams in a small garage. Now one Johnson City man is following the same garage-to-greatness approach made legendary by Hewlett-Packerd, Apple, and Google with his new dot com start up. News Channel 11 introduced [...]
Chris Kraft is bridging the gap between television and the Internet. “We’re pioneering a new part of the industry,” said Kraft, founder and president of Splash Media. “We have the best product on the market. We have a neat, broad vision. It’s never dull here. Every day is an adventure.” Kraft, a married, father of [...]
Brett Blundy – founder of the retail chains Sanity, Macro Wholefoods, Bras N Things and Diva – has defied the downturn in retail spending to pick up a bulky goods shopping centre in Newcastle for $61.5 million. The 5.3 hectare Kotara Homeworks site includes 29,000 square metres of retail space and is anchored by [...]
“After a year studying medical engineering at the University of Bath, I felt quite unfulfilled, and decided to take a gap year to see what life was about. I travelled in South America, Turkey, Italy and Spain until I ran out of money, and then worked in bars, teaching English and driving quarrying machinery [...]
Not long after Catherine Cook arrived at her new high school aged 15, she was flipping through an old yearbook with Dave, her 16-year-old brother, when they spotted the name of a girl they both knew. Yet the yearbook picture looked nothing like her. In that moment an internet empire was born. You have [...]
Ryan Gindlesperger has spent years chasing high expectations he’s been at least partly responsible for setting. As a freshman at Bishop McCort High School in 1999, the Crushers hockey team won a state championship. Gindlesperger and his teammates spent the next three years chasing lofty expectations. He said he actually felt some disappointment in [...]
The little souvenir bottle filled with seashells and sand that you brought back to Milwaukee from Sanibel Island may have made a round trip. That’s because your keepsake, which evokes memories of golden days on the beach, could have been made by Visionary Products, a Glendale company that does a million-dollar business in beach [...]
Israeli-born Nadav Wilf was only 22 when he launched Matrix Media Technologies Inc. in 2004 with partner Jeff Smith. It was the first of their two businesses. The second company, DiscoverSD.com, was launched in 2006. The entrepreneurs grew the companies to $700,000 in revenues by the second year and expect to break the $2.1 million [...]
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