Real small businesses from around the world: one person, little money. Each with costs, earnings and the first steps.
Idea of the dayEvery passenger gives you a few minutes of conversation. One author turned them into book sales.
A bag of pantry rice and food colouring bought one mother an hour of peace, then a paying online shop.
A kitchen blender, window screens and wildlife dung can become a notebook that tourists happily pay extra for.
A music student with no budget turned plastic drums and bottle skins into a business earning about R$ 20,000 a month.
Give a restaurant a free specials board, then sell the strip along the bottom to neighbouring businesses.
Soft hearts, lungs and stomachs let children learn anatomy by hugging the body part they are studying.
Two Halloween fans turned a seasonal hobby into paid work, with single pumpkins fetching as much as $700.
A mother and daughter turned hand-decorated sweets for temple celebrations into a full-time income from their own kitchen.
Supporter groups pay for huge banners that must unfurl the right way up in a packed stand.
