I met a woman recently who owns a travel company. For years, her business had been plateaued at a respectable, but small size. Then 9/11 took the bottom out of her industry and her largest contracts dried up overnight. At that perilous time, ...

http://www.barcoderevolution.comJapanese Design Barcode turns standard barcodes into appealing and engaging brand elements.Following laundry services, supermarkets and coffins in our recurring 'everything can be reinvented' theme, come the humble str ...

A new report highlights the importance of making new businesses appear credible to employees and customers. The success of an emerging business depends largely on the owner's ability to convince potential employees or customers ...

For M. Evan Parker and Frank Campos, business is pretty lousy these days — and that's just fine.The Pasadena pair started their in-home lice removal service, Lousey Nitpickers, in July, budgeting $8,000 to launch a website and buy a supply of hair ca ...

A Kissimmee inventor who has created what he says will be the first energy-efficient clothes dryer announced this week that he has reached a joint-development agreement with appliance manufacturer Haier America. Michael Brown, a former appliance rep ...

In most areas of higher education, entrepreneurship has long lost its stigma as a career path for those without one. But at the nation's top music conservatories that stigma is still very much alive, despite the fact that the "traditional" career pa ...

Overall, 2006 was a good year for small business, with 671,800 new firms jumping into the small-biz scene. And recent studies show that about two-thirds of those new companies can expect to last at least two years. So how can you ensure that your com ...

If you've ever spent a frustratingly long time looking for a parking space, a new service is sure to perk up your ears. You'll soon be able to find a spot without even having to drive around. Since you can search online to check the weather before go ...

Holly Nill-McKayhttp://www.fetalgreetings.comWhen Holly was pregnant a few years back in 1999, she looked for a unique way to tell her friends and family of her pregnancy. Making phone call after phone call to every cousin, aunt and uncle was a daunt ...

PITTSBURGH - Carnegie Mellon University researchers are using an old adage to develop anti-fraud software for Internet auction sites like eBay: It's not what you know, it's who you know. Sites like eBay rely on users to warn others if they have a bad ...