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Posted in Business Ideas, Entrepreneurs, Retire Rich, Rich Couples on Jul 13th, 2007 No Comments »
A lot has changed for Felicia Palmer and Steven Samuel since they started SOHH.com in 1993. Back then, the site was known as Support Online Hip-Hop and was simply a place where the two could post newsletters and run an online bulletin board about hip-hop music and the community. Using Samuel’s home computer, they built the site [...]
Posted in Business Ideas, Entrepreneurs, Money Related, Rich Couples on Jun 27th, 2007 No Comments »
Like every MBA student, Dwight Schultheis was waiting for a business idea to inspire him. Then he noticed something: He and his male friends had shaving-related skin problems, and the products they used didn’t help.
Months of market research and a few focus groups later, his upscale men’s grooming products company, Amenity, was born. [...]
Posted in Entrepreneurs, Rich Couples on Jun 27th, 2007 No Comments »
What started as just a dream for husband-and-wife team Andy Stenzler and Shari Misher Stenzler has since become a dream come true for Manhattan parents of children age 5 and under. Kidville, NY, their $3 million, 20,000-square-foot, four-story-high family facility, opened in January 2005 and is home to developmental classes such as “Run, Wiggle, [...]
Posted in Business Ideas, Entrepreneurs, Rich Couples on Jun 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
Suzy da Silva and Nicole Licata met in 1998 while working at a direct-response advertising agency, and the lack of ethics they sometimes witnessed inspired the pair to branch out on their own in 2001. “We wanted to do something that would treat the clients better,” says Licata, “because direct response in general is a [...]
Posted in Business Ideas, Entrepreneurs, Rich Couples on Jun 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
Athenahealth brings both qualities to its internet-based billing and revenue-cycle software solutions for medical providers. Wisdom is a quality the founders have picked up over the varied life cycles of the company. According to Jonathan S. Bush, “The prudent warfare is using technology to get large, impersonal insurance companies to pay their claims properly.”In 1997, [...]
Posted in Rich Couples on Jun 14th, 2007 No Comments »
A New Playing Field: “Four and a half years ago, I was broke” and needed to make some money, says Lanny Morton, owner of Sportscloseouts.com. When his then-girlfriend, now wife, Deena, spotted some baseball bats on sale for $40 each, she encouraged Lanny to buy them to resell on eBay. Despite the fact that he [...]
