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Nov
17
Help For Entrepreneurs From Springwise
In our last post we mentioned some unique ideas and food for thought from Springwise for your entrepreneurial urges, but forgot to mention several of the new businesses from Springwise that offer business or start up help. I’ve really noticed that business services and any sort of help you can offer to new or established businesses seems to be a sure success these days.
Could your Ebay business use some Kabbage?
Are you a struggling Ebay seller that has done well, but desperately need operating capital? Well, you don’t have to be desperate to ask Kabbage for help. Targeted specifically at well managed Ebay sellers, Kabbage is a new company that saw a need and met it. Many Ebay sellers have started from scratch and found Ebay to be an amazing venue to start a home business. However, you may have more business than you have capital to move forward. That’s why Kabbage was born.
When you apply, this company takes a look at your current Ebay business, and if they see potential in what you have done so far, they might help you out-almost immediately. Even if you have done a great job managing your money, capital is always one of those ‘minor details’ that can make or break a good business. Here is a company that saw the dilemma and provided a working solution:
Check it out: Kabbage
Visa has donated 1 Million to Kiva to help US Entrepreneurs
We’ve mentioned Kiva before, but mostly as a goodwill effort to entrepreneurs overseas. Now, in an effort to help entrepreneurs in our own America, Visa poured a million dollars into Kiva exclusively for US business start-ups.
Business Opportunities initially told Springwise about this, but you can go here to find out more and see if you qualify for assistance: http://www.kiva.org/
Human IPO.com-An amazing platform for new businesses
This is so amazing of a resource that it probably deserves a post of its own. It’s somewhat of a business incubator on steroids.You can find connections for your business, mentors in your niche, and so much more.
Entrepreneurs can use HumanIPO to build a business by sharing their ideas in order to find partners, mentors, consultants, foreign sales agents and investors. The home page of their website tells it all, so you really have to go there. Check it out: http://www.humanipo.com/
Need a Presentation Done? How does $99 sound-and is 48 hours too long?
Who would think you could get a quality presentation done for your business for as little as $99 and in only 48 hours? Sound impossible?
See for yourself: PPT Salon (for “well-groomed presentations” )
These were all in last week’s Springwise newsletter. As you can see, Springwise is a wealth of ideas for any entrepreneur wanna-be. Even for those businesses that are already up and running, as evidenced by Kabbage and Kiva.
Had to share this great website with you . . . . again. -Springwise.com
Have you used any of these websites? Would love to hear your experience1
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Nov
16
Unusual New Ideas For Start Ups
Springwise has been one of our favorite stops for business ideas (along with our all time favorite, Dane Carlsen’s Business Opportunities, a blog you must sign up for updates from!) and we have cited ideas from Springwise here several times before as a great place to fuel your entrepreneurial dreams. Actually, it’s probably more like food for thought, because many of the ideas are often so ‘out there’ that the homeschooler in us would shudder to think of trying to launch them.
For instance, the business idea for marketing ‘Living Grass’ or live bacteria as (!) a marketing medium (see: http://www.curbmedia.com/). Interesting, maybe-natural, of course. Do-able? Questionable, at least for an average entrepreneur that wants to work at home as a family.
This week Springwise has presented a few ideas that I thought were ‘do-able’ that you might like…some with a little added twist:
Re-Jigged – Taking the old and making it new again
Re-jigged is a UK company that “reclaims unwanted clothing and upgrades them with some signature stitchery for sale to new owners, so UK-based Re-jigged turns unwearable castoffs into bespoke, one-of-a-kind children’s clothing.” I saw this business as one that is perfect for the homeschool family – that is, if you have at least one member that is talented in sewing, mending and creating.
Re-jigged is run from a farm in rural Herefordshire (UK), and in partnership with EnviroAbility, helps the firm source, wash, sort and arrange the clothing and process it as needed to accomplish their goals. EnviroAbility is a non-profit in the UK that appears to be somewhat similar to our Salvation Army or Goodwill here in the US.
In the US there are Goodwill Stores in almost every state and usually the central store in any area will sell you bags of clothing for pennies on the pound the clothes that aren’t sellable in their other stores within one month. Of course, there are many other sources of clothing discards that would be easy to find for practically nothing here in America, also. If you could efficiently re-purpose these discards into something worthwhile, you could do quite well selling what will be primarily your investment of time. Time is what it would take, along with a little ingenuity, but it was an idea I thought worth considering and IMHO, a business fitting for a homeschool family. Another Springwise discovered business that is similar is http://www.dothegreenthing.com/saved.
We Go Look – at things needing looked at!
WeGoLook is a concept that could catch on, while I’m still wondering how they find enough people to accomplish their goals. In case you’re wondering what they look at, it’s items on Ebay and Craigslist that are too far away for you to make a trip for-yet know it would be wise to SEE the item.
You could apply to be a ‘looker’, or consider a service of your own! See it in action at : http://www.wegolook.com/
Vision Walks - Giving tours for a living
Do you live somewhere interesting that you could offer a tour of? Maybe not one tour, but maybe group a series of interesting tours in your area? Be creative! Vision Walks utilize night vision goggles. What new technology could you use? An i-Phone maybe? Visit or take a look at Vision Walks for some possible ideas.
Ebay goes green – and maybe another GREEN opportunity?
Ebay’s Instant Sale, a new offering for used electronics, could be a way to recycle your old electronics…and maybe other electronics that you are able to round up. I haven’t read all the details, but thought it was worth looking into. Many people that I know have no idea what to do with their old electronic devices..maybe you can help others, the environment, and make some cash from home in the process.
go to: http://green.ebay.com/instantsale/
Are you a Foodie looking for an entrepreneurial outlet?
UpBox, “Gourmet Food in a Box”, is another UK company that is offering prepared food to go. A niche that may be a big UK hit. In the US, there are always opportunities to satisfy America’s take-out urges. UpBox is smart in targeting the upscale market, knowing that they have a little more pocket change to spare in this economy.
However, one niche in America that almost any non-poverty budget will spend a little extra on is healthy or organic food. I’ve often thought how valuable a delivery service would be for those that are too sick to go out to buy food, or to prepare their own. That’s when they need healthy food the most, but often resort to unhealthy alternatives out of the inability to manage anything else. We can’t forget that there is a big world out there that may not have family, friends or a church to help when sickness strikes. Many would pay a premium price for healthy food, prepared AND delivered. (a service that could also be a ministry!) This is also a needed service in our growing elderly community.
That’s not all!
You can read more about these new start-ups and more ideas that will boggle your entrepreneurial mind at Springwise.com. What are some unique business ideas that you have ‘spotted’ recently?
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