Archive for January 25th, 2010
Service Turns Kids Into Globe-Trotters
Remember the excitement you felt receiving mail as a child? That’s the inspiration behind San Francisco-based Little Passports, a new educational subscription service that aims to turn 5-to-10-year-olds into world travelers, one country at a time, according to trendspotter Springwise. Little Passports delivers monthly travel packages designed to provide a fun, hands-on way for kids [...]
A young boy is sitting behind a lemonade stand. A man is a tie is standing in front of the stand with his hands in his pockets. Kid: “Hey mister, can I he-” Man: “REALLY. I’m just looking.” The man continues to just stand there. Man: “Dammit, though, ya know? You salesmen… just back off [...]
Meet The Lipstick Entrepreneurs
Budge over, boys. The next decade will be women’s, if a recent forecast is correct. According to The Sun Times “a tenfold increase in the number of female CEOs in FTSE 100 companies!”, “Double the number of female MPs!”, “100% growth in women-owned start-ups!” — these predictions come from the trendspotter Jeremy Baker, of ECSP [...]
Is ‘Golden Age For Inventors’ At Hand?
Some people follow rock stars. Steve Greenberg follows inventors. Greenberg calls himself an “invention groupie.” The author of “Gadget Nation,” he’s written about quirky inventors who have dreamed up everything from a talking toilet paper dispenser to a “Vidstone” grave marker that displays a video tribute of the dearly departed. Now is a great time [...]
Where Are They Now? eBay Stores
Entrepreneur magazine decided to look back at some wacky ideas that went boom and bust in an instant. Are there lessons to be learned? Certainly. Do they help predict if, in the long run, the new ideas will be brilliant or harebrained? Sorry, only time will tell. Remember the eBay store? The place where you’d [...]
This Valentine’s Day will see a romance blossom between two passionate lovers of brevity: the Sweetheart candy maker and Twitter, according to a story in The Tampa Tribune. A select few candy hearts will proclaim, “Tweet Me.” The Twitter-Sweetheart project seemed almost predestined, executives with the candy company say, with Twitter transmitting billions of ever-so-brief [...]
The Web Of Tomorrow: 4 Big Trends To Watch
As we approach the imminent launch of the Apple Tablet and analyze new trends coming out of out of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, now is good time to reflect on what the web will look like in the next decade — and beyond, so says Ben Parr over at Mashable.com. 1. The Web Will [...]
Daily Dispatch Online: Momtrepreneurs are a new breed of stay-at-home moms who bring income into the household coffers while still having the time to cheer kids on at school sports. As children returned to school this week, three mothers who work from home shared with the Saturday Dispatch why they chose to opt out of [...]
