entrepreneurship

There's a saying that "an idea by itself is worth nothing," but with persistence and a business-savvy work ethic, great ideas can pay off big time, even for students. Or in this case, hunks. Having discovered the trick to creating a profitable business, high school friends Omar Soliman and Nick...

Changing the direction of your career can be scary. Obstacles litter the path, from a mortgage to uncertainty about what that new profession should even be. But 13 people over 60 took the leap in Bruce Frankel's inspiring book, What Should I Do with the Rest of My Life. At an age when many of us...

WalletPop is is joining with CostRefuge.and looking back each week at the top personal finance stories from mainstream publications and the blogosphere. Trying to determine which home repairs are actually worth it seems to be a common theme among homeowners, especially those who can not invest the...

Money College presents part two of a series on college entrepreneurs -- those brave students who balance backpacks with boardrooms (even if the boardroom is in a dorm room) while planning their first business ventures, all before flipping that graduation day tassel. Read on to learn about two...

Who might be the Mark Zuckerberg of tomorrow? Money College blogger LeeAnn Maton looks at five entrepreneurs in this two-part series on college students and their start-ups. For college-aged entrepreneurs -- those brave students who balance boardrooms with backpacks and venture-planning with exam...

If your kid looks at lemonade stands and card trading as opportunities to rake in the dough instead of an afternoon diversion, then you need to check out Biz in a Boxx. This is one game you can give your budding entrepreneur that could potentially have excellent ROI (return on investment, for you...

At first glance, The InVenture Prize at Georgia Tech appears as a glorified science fair, complete with errant explosions and contraptions worthy of a Rube Goldberg cartoon. The scene at the second annual contest, held in March at Georgia Tech's Ferst Center for the Arts, played out as an...

No matter what some critics assert about "an America that's changed forever" or "an America on the verge of Armageddon," the U.S. remains one of the freest, fairest nations in the world -- and this has led to wave after wave of innovation. That should happen yet again.

Turn the snowfall into a windfall by starting your own snow-shoveling business. With help from our experts, Mike Stevens, owner of the industry newsletter Snowplow News, and Kevin Arroyo, the owner of R and A Cleaning Services in Staten Island, N.Y., WalletPop offers the following advice to get...

Joseph Gliottone has a quick comeback to his former advertising colleagues when they ask him about his new job picking up dog poop. "It's the same product category, but a different clientele," said Gliottone, 53, who was a senior vice president of print production at an ad agency in Boston, and...