Archive for September 30th, 2009
Jenga: The Remarkable Business of Creating a Game
New Jersey Business: Leslie Scott was fiddling with her kid brother’s wooden toy blocks one day when she began stacking one on top of another. With no purpose in mind, the 17-year-old, who was living in Ghana at the time, continued stacking. And stacking. Nearly four decades later, the game she invented that day — [...]
Journal Sentinel: As the last group of fans walked out of Lambeau Field on a Sunday afternoon, the iconic seating bowl looked more like a landfill than the home of the Green Bay Packers. It was quite a collection the 70,000 or more football fans left behind. Paper cups, plastic beer bottles, straws, plastic drink [...]
Start Your Own Company Using Iphone
Fast Company: Now would-be entrepreneurs have a new tool to make launching a business easier: the Start Your Own Company app for the iPhone. This .99 application offers a streamlined, step-by-step approach to becoming your own boss — and is the first iPhone app to actually walk users through that process. The Start Your Own [...]
The Boston Globe: The leaves may have barely begun to fall, and the still-strong sun banishes thoughts of December. But like it or not, the holiday shopping season, in all its gift-giving cheer and consumerist frenzy, is already underway. It began even earlier than usual this year, with a few stores displaying Christmas items in [...]
Tech For Disabled Going Mainstream
BusinessWeek: Apple is widely celebrated for making devices as easy to use as they are elegantly designed. What customers probably don’t know is that some of these features aren’t exactly new—they evolved from software Apple created to help disabled people use PCs. Among them: the new iPhone’s voice control option, which allows users to speak [...]
Product Placements Aren’t Just For Big Companies
The Wall Street Journal: Product appearances in TV shows and movies are no longer exclusively for big companies with marketing budgets to match. Publicists and other promoters are actively going after small businesses for product-placement opportunities. And from Facebook to Twitter to bloggers, more ways exist to chat up and spread the word about a [...]
Washington Post: What a profile they cut, slicing through the city: gorgeous, exotic, dangerous. You see them parked like emaciated steeds outside the coolest clubs. We are talking about a bicycle. A very special kind of road bicycle, called a fixed-gear bike, or fixie for short. A fixie has one speed, which makes it difficult [...]
Website Magazine: Finding users who will not only interact with your brand but actually help you promote it is one of the hardest jobs of any Internet marketer. Who are these users and where do you find them? According to a new study from media research firm Interpret, LLC, the answer just might lie with [...]
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Mom's Business Grew From Desire To Teach
Lansing State Journal: Cheryl Miller and Heather Lewis are moms who want their kids to learn something in every situation – even in the car on the way to after-school activities. But when they bought educational CDs to play on the way to skating and drum lessons, the women found them lacking. “They all sounded [...]
Efusjon Brings All-Natural Ingredients To Energy Drinks
The term “all-natural” is not one we commonly see in reference to an energy drink but a new network marketing company is here to change that, Efusjon. Although they are still a relatively young company, the growth they have seen has been promising. Currently offering 4 all-natural products, the company looks to take on the [...]
