Archive for May 3rd, 2010
Decades of thoughtful tweaking, finessing, and updating have gone into the big name logos you’ve come to recognize, know, and love. Bored Panda has put together a collection of logos as they have changed over the years. Twenty more logos here. Photo by Bored Panda.
Business is Booming for Backyard Farmers
LA Times: “Companies are sprouting up across the country, offering help building and maintaining backyard vegetable gardens for those who lack the time — or green thumb — needed to keep the crops coming.”
According to ReadWriteWeb it’s known as the marshmallow challenge. Small teams are given 18 minutes to build a free-standing structure made of dry spaghetti, one yard of string, one yard of tape and a marshmallow, which must be placed on top. The team wins by creating the tallest structure of all the groups participating. What [...]
Each stroke of the brush that Shari Ford makes has its purpose in the picture. The process alone can take around 3 to 4 months just to complete one portrait. Considering the amount of time it takes, you can imagine her dismay when she walked into her studio to find one of her pieces defaced [...]
Dreaming Of Easy Money? Don’t Be Fooled
The Arizona Republic warns that those who are without a job and who are behind on bills are particularly vulnerable to the scams that offer big money for little work. Sometimes they stumble into one scam, then another as they try to recover from the first. Eric Grayson of Louisville, Ky., paid Phoenix-based Bankcard Empire [...]
What do you get when you combine bubble wrap and orange trees? You get young Eric Baker’s invention, the “Orange DeBruiser.” One of 15 semi-finalists in the fourth annual Bubble Wrap Competition for Young Inventors, Eric is hoping that his invention will bring home the $10,000 prize reports the OrlandoSentinel.com. Eric likes to create things [...]
Awesome Companies Built By Teens: Fred De Luca
The entrepreneurial spirit starts early for many teenagers, but for most things like high school, college and social lives overpower the urge to start a business. But not every teenager. Wisebread takes a look at some incredibly successful young entrepreneurs, who all started their empires in their teens. In 1965 Fred De Luca borrowed just [...]
Jan Hurn has spent the past 8 years growing her stationery design business, one that was built out of desperation, in hopes of providing encouragement to moms everywhere. Jan Hurn’s world was devastated in March 2002, when her husband left the expectant mom with no means of income to support her two young daughters Hannah [...]
Banking Laws Leave Bizs Vulnerable
Many tax advisors tell their self-employed clients — including those who are “consulting” while looking for work — to open separate business bank accounts to make it easier to separate business and personal expenses for tax purposes. Don’t do it, says The Los Angeles Times. This common tax advice could turn into a banking nightmare [...]
According to this year’s Edison Research/Arbitron Internet & Multimedia Study, Twitter has now reached the same ubiquitous brand awareness in the U.S. as Facebook. In 2008, only 5% of the U.S. population was aware of Twitter. Today, this number is 87%. According to the study, what percentage of Americans actually use Twitter? 7% 12% 25% [...]
