Archive for October 15th, 2006
Vancouver Sun: It took a troubling personal experience with a home health-care provider five years ago to prompt Nurse Next Door co-founder Ken Sim to conclude that homecare for seniors was a great sector in which to start up a business. “My wife needed emergency bed rest with our first child,” Sim said in an [...]
Inventor Cracks Boiled Egg Riddle
Reuters: A British inventor says he has cracked the age-old riddle of how to boil the perfect egg — get rid of the water. Simon Rhymes uses powerful light bulbs instead of boiling water to cook the egg. The gadget does the job in six minutes, and then chops off the top of the egg [...]
7 Steps To A Healthy Medical Startup
Business 2.0 Magazine: Seven steps to a healthy medical startup: 1. Diagnose the Challenge If you don’t already have a “real, visceral understanding” of the health-care market, partner with someone who does, advises Forrester Research executive Eric Brown. 2. Avoid the Regulators Stay clear of services that require you to spend a lot of quality [...]
Internet Changing Face Of Irish Tourism
electricnews.net: More than half of visitors to Ireland this year used the internet to plan their holiday, according to new figures from Tourism Ireland. Delegates at a major eMarketing conference held in Dublin were told that by 2010, over 75 percent of holidaymakers to the island of Ireland would be using the internet to plan [...]
Banker to Poor Gets Nobel Prize
Arab News: The Bangladeshi founder of a bank that specializes in helping the poor access microbusiness loans without collateral won the Nobel Peace Prize. Muhammad Yunus, the 65-year-old economist who has been dubbed the “banker to the poor�, and his Grameen Bank that he founded in 1983 will share the $1.4 million prize. In his [...]
