Archive for the 'Business Start Up' Category

The Blog at Etsy.com has a great article on  How One Married Couple Created Their Screen Printing Business. They got their start getting local screen printers to make 25 T-Shirts at a time so they could sell them at local punk rock gatherings. From there, they found a used four color press they could afford to [...]

Here’s a list of the 10 Best Industries For Being Your Own Boss from Business Insider 1. Manufacturing 2. Mining, Oil and Gas Extraction 3. Transportation and Utilities 4. Leisure and Hospitality 5. Information 6. Wholesale and Retail Trade 7. Financial Services 8. Agriculture and Aquaculture 9. Professional and Business Services 10.  Construction As derived from [...]

This is a pretty cool idea – setting up a small furniture building business or Furniture Microenterprise. It’s amazing what you can do with a small CNC machine. Have you ever considered a small manufacturing business as a possible work at home business? For about $1500 you can get started and order the wood as [...]

Let’s say your home business starts to take off. You need capital to expand… BUT becuase you’re a “small fry”, that money is hard to come by. If you have a “real business” though, it’s possible this trend may help you secure the expansion funds you need. The trend? Local Stock Exchanges! These allow people [...]

I’ve blogged about KIVA.org and their ability to raise funds for international micro business and work at home business operations. Now I see that Kiva is raising funds for US based entrepreneurs. Would you be eligible to receive funding for your business plans? Here are the Kiva partners funding such programs: ACCION USA ACCION Texas [...]

It may be that the work at home business opportunity you seek is to be part of a “Digital Factory”. A rural county in TN suffered the loss of most of its factory jobs. As the recession hit hard, it’s unemployment was up to 25%! No factory is on the horizon, so they took matters [...]

Randy Elrod did what many of us would like to do… at 47 he told his boss “Goodbye”. Here are 5 steps (I’ve abbreviated my summary) he took for himself along with a link to the full article. 1. Whenever he caught himself saying “Something ought to be done about…” , he asked if that [...]

It’s true. The guy who made his first fortune selling PayPal to Ebay has set up a program to fund Entrepreneurs under 20. Here’s a short intro and the link: Peter Thiel this week launched the Thiel Fellowship to foster the next generation of tech visionaries. “Our world needs more breakthrough technologies,” said Thiel. “From [...]

One new blog that can help you track possible work from home business options with a medical flair is a new blog I found called the Medical News Blog. For example, there’s a recent article on running a “healthy” catering business. The thing that can make it a “healthy” catering business is that software exists [...]

Many people visit this website to learn about the Field Inspection Business and investigate a product that tells “how to get started in the field inspection business”, i.e. Easy Photo Biz Review After learning about this business and following the steps outlined there I started getting calls for work. I don’t do this work at [...]