Archive for the 'Shoestring Startup' Category

How $3,000 Grew Into An International Supplement Company

Tuesday, May 15th, 2012

My name’s Jonathan, and I’m a first time entrepreneur.  I’m a 27 year old one-man company who’s started a health supplement company called Health Kismet.  It makes a condensed vegetable powder called Incredible Greens that combines 35 different greens, herbs, and probiotics into a sweet powder. Small Beginnings The specific idea wasn’t started by grand [...]

Make the Business Fund Itself

Friday, May 11th, 2012

I went to law school in 2008 just as the U.S. economy, and the legal job market, tanked. By the time I graduated in 2011, legal jobs were hard to come by if you weren’t at the top of the class. It seemed a lot of my classmates were taking any job they could get. [...]

With Each Adversity Comes the Seed to Prosperity

Thursday, May 10th, 2012

I believe it was W. Clement Stone (he founded Combined Insurance of America during the Great Depression) who said, “with each adversity comes the seed to prosperity.” My shoestring venture was started out of necessity and adversity after business investments I had made just prior to the U.S. banking meltdown of 2008 quickly went down [...]

Step Aside Boring Dinnerware : Introducing Glitzee Glee

Wednesday, May 9th, 2012

Name of your company and URL?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              My company name is Glitzee Glee. You can visit my website at www.glitzeeglee.com What is your product or service? My store specializes in unique dinnerware, holiday dinnerware, tableware, barware, glassware, table linens, coasters, candles, candle holders, napkin rings, wine bottle charms, wine bottle stoppers, salt and pepper shakers, [...]