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Posted in Business Ideas, Entrepreneurs, Rich Couples on Oct 14th, 2007 No Comments »
Chuck Taylor, a young Arkansas native who teamed up with some fellow IBM Corp. alumni to form a word processor company, found himself at an interesting crossroads in 1992.
The owners of the 4-year-old company wanted to separate the business of selling the hardware from the secondary business of selling supplies for the equipment.
Taylor chose [...]
Posted in Business Ideas, Entrepreneurs, Money Related, Rich Couples on Oct 13th, 2007 No Comments »
She was simply a deli girl who wanted to feed her entrepreneurial hunger and make enough money to support her children.
And Nancy Madewell knew that it was going to take a break from her 12-year career behind Kroger’s deli counter. She had the seed money — a small inheritance and family loans — [...]
Posted in Business Ideas, Entrepreneurs, Rich Couples on Jul 24th, 2007 No Comments »
A Bag Is Born: At age 18, Shawn Nelson was watching TV on the couch when he decided “a huge beanbag thing” might be more comfortable. He bought 14 yards of vinyl, cut it into a baseball shape, and spent three weeks filling it with anything soft he could find. The finished LoveSac was 7 feet [...]
Posted in Business Ideas, Entrepreneurs, Rich Couples on Jul 24th, 2007 No Comments »
Are you craving vegetable pot pie? Or a can of soup with organically grown ingredients? Perhaps some nonprocessed pasta sauce? Amy’s Kitchen will deliver. Figuratively speaking. This is not Domino’s; rather, it’s a brand of frozen food product you can find in plenty of grocery stores nationwide.
Named after their baby daughter, it’s the brainchild of [...]
Posted in Business Ideas, Entrepreneurs, Rich Couples on Jul 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
In 2005, Larry Andreini approached two entertainment producers about a possible television show, but their meeting didn’t lead to a TV hit. Instead, the pair gave Andreini, an entrepreneur with a track record that includes founding a customer loyalty program and a telecommunications exchange, the concept that would become his next business: Ridemakerz, a [...]
