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Posted in Business Ideas, Entrepreneurs, Retire Rich on Aug 17th, 2007 No Comments »
Our search for modern design furniture has begun. For decades people have engaged in a love (and money) affair with 18th- and 19th-century furnishings, but today, even lava lamps are bubbling with value. From the iconic Art Deco designs of the 1920s and ’30s to the cool blond lines of Heywood-Wakefield’s “Modern” line, the [...]
Posted in Business Ideas, Entrepreneurs, Money Related on Aug 16th, 2007 No Comments »
In every bloggers life comes a special day - the day they first launch a new blog. Now unless you went out and purchased someone else’s blog chances are your blog launched with only one very loyal reader - you. Maybe a few days later you received a few hits when you told your [...]
Posted in Business Ideas, Entrepreneurs, Retire Rich on Aug 9th, 2007 No Comments »
Flip-flops have matured from their surfer roots to become acceptable footwear not just on the beach, but also in everyday life. With sandals showing up everywhere from the office to weddings, footwear companies have had to find ways to differentiate their thongs from the rest. Think about brands like Birkenstock. Just hearing that name makes people [...]
Posted in Business Ideas, Entrepreneurs, Retire Rich on Aug 9th, 2007 No Comments »
Several months ago Silvia Cuevas took stock of her life, and it was a profoundly unsettling experience. At 40 she had a solid job with a modest salary at the public library in Santa Ana, Calif. She’d carefully squirreled away some savings and bought herself a little house. She was financially secure - and utterly [...]
Posted in Business Ideas, Entrepreneurs, Retire Rich on Aug 8th, 2007 No Comments »
Tom Pirelli’s life changed on a hot, black-shingled roof in Ensenada, Mexico, where he and others were building a plywood house for a poor family as volunteers for a nonprofit. He relished the experience but fought a sense of dismay. “I was disappointed in the quality of houses being built: small and cheap as we [...]
