Archive for April 20th, 2007
The Miami County News: Julie Perez, a Miami County Master Gardener, began cultivating her green thumb shortly after she moved to her rural Paola home in 1993. Since then, her home-based business of selling iris hybrids and perennials has blossomed into acres of gardens featuring more than 250,000 plants. From the early morning’s dew until [...]
This Kid Turned Down $1 Billion!
Fast Company: Mark Zuckerberg’s life so far is like a movie script. A supersmart kid invents a tech phenomenon while attending an Ivy League school and launches it to rave reviews. Big shots circle his dorm to make his acquaintance; he drops out of college to grow his baby and Change The World As We [...]
Entrepreneur Takes Bite Out Of Dallas
dBusinessNews: More than 20,000 homes in the Houston area are a lot more peaceful than they used to be, thanks to local dog-training guru Jim Burwell and his patented canine calming methods. Now, he’s launched a mission to spread that peace to Dallas and tap into the $25 billion pet services industry with his new [...]
Kiplinger’s Personal Finance Magazine: To become a success in high-tech Silicon Valley, Alan Aerts used low-tech skills and hard work. He slung crates of produce for a grocery store and sold bread to restaurants while launching a vending-machine business that sells soft drinks and snack foods to workaholic computer engineers. In 1980, on his route [...]
Entrepreneur Hooked On Lure Of Tackle
The Patriot Ledger: Larry Wentworth has yet to hook his trophy fish, a 40-pound striped bass. But he vows that when he does, it will be with one of his hand-made wooden lures. In the meantime, the 42-year-old owner of BigFish Bait Co. is catching anglers. From his workshop at his Hanover home, Wentworth crafts [...]
New Bill Would Streamline Patent Appeal Process
Arstechnica: Congress is once again preparing to try and fix the US patent system. The Patent Reform Act of 2007 was introduced in the Senate and House today. The new bill is very similar to bills introduced in 2005 and 2006 that failed to pass. It would change the US patent system from its current [...]
