Customer Spotlight: Carol Graham, Bulldog Communications, LLC
At Palo Alto Software, we’re used to talking with entrepreneurs about their businesses. Most are enthusiastic about what they do, but you can hear it in their voices when they truly love it. Carol Graham, a relatively new user of Business Plan Pro, is one of those people. As founder of Bulldog Communications, LLC, in...
By Bplans
Entrepreneurial opportunity
It’s heartening to be able to pass on a success story. On Monday, 22 December KVAL TV in Eugene reported on the success of Sweet Skins, a minority women owned eco-clothing company which sews and sells women’s clothing made from organic fibers, and eco-fleece (made from recycled 2-liter soda bottles) wraps and hoodies. The KVAL...
Silver Linings
We all know times are tough. But that doesn’t mean you have to wait for a better economic climate to make the career move you’ve been thinking of. When a Springfield, Oregon woman lost her job at the corporate headquarters of a temp agency, she took advantage of the opportunity. Within hours of filing for unemployment, she was...
By Bplans
Startup from Both Sides Now
Always the paradox. The best of times, the worst of times. Take a look at this chart: For several days now I’ve been trying to figure out how to tell this story. It would be a great story if it had a happy ending, and it still can. But it hasn’t yet. I really like...
By Tim Berry
True Story: A Product Takes Off
Sometimes things go even better than planned. And that can be really exciting. This is a true story. I thought I would tell it here now because of a dinner meeting last Monday night with someone who could be in a similar situation. That’s a maybe, unfortunately. He’s a nice guy; it’d be nice if...
By Tim Berry
Here’s a Startup Idea–Sleeping in Airports
Today’s New York Times includes a story by Sharon McDonnell called “Snoozing at the Terminal”: “Sleeping overnight in [the] airport has become enough of a phenomenon that it has inspired one recent novel, Dear American Airlines. The author, Jonathan Miles, said he was spurred to write the book after an unscheduled overnight stay at O’Hare...
By Tim Berry
Up and Running in eBooks
Can you guess a startup that’s based on a product but doesn’t have to carry inventory and creates its own channels of distribution? One whose startup costs are not a lot more than a good computer, and the know-how? One whose time from conception to shipping is a matter of weeks? I’ve never met Scott...
By Tim Berry
BusinessWeek Profiling Startups
BusinessWeek just started a new feature profiling new entrepreneurial companies, in a slide show motif, called Fresh Entrepreneurs – Profiling Startups Around the U.S. It strikes me as a nice way to get quick views of what other people are doing. Stories like … She quit her consulting job at Bain, hired a designer from...
By Tim Berry
