Archive for June 8th, 2010
With millions of units sold, thousands of apps, and e-book sales numbers that might be making Amazon nervous, the iPad appears to be a continued success. Mashable checks in with the infographic below for the full skinny on the state of the iPad. Photo by Mashable.
In a world of music-playing phones, Internet-enabled refrigerators and satellite-based car navigation, some companies still find success with such low-tech products as urine, dirt and even air. WalletPop has the story. A clever duo from Ireland was inspired by the ground under their feet. Business partners Pat Burke and Alan Jenkins founded the Auld Sod [...]
Business Insider: While there are always cases where stories hyped by the media and entrepreneur folklore do come to life (I suppose entrepreneurs do occasionally share elevators with VCs), this generally isn’t how business gets done. While entrepreneurs can meet investors at networking events, at pitch events and, yes, in elevators, they don’t need to [...]
Every Entrepreneur Needs Some Backup
Entrepreneur Richard Branson writes in Business Day, people tend to think of entrepreneurs as lone heroes, but this isn’t how it works in real life. Many live up to their reputation as risk-takers and some remain outsiders, but despite this outlier status, entrepreneurs need support to be successful. In fact, we’re a lot like Formula [...]
While at first it might seem that penguins, salty waffles and precious gems might have nothing in common, when you look a little deeper you can find a connection and her name is Nicole Donnelly. Nicole was the founder of Babylegs Inc, which she later sold to a hosiery manufacturer, but that isn’t all she [...]
Safety First For American Wurst
According to The Kansas City Star, we’ll consume an estimated 7 billion dogs between Memorial Day and Labor Day. Call them weenies, call them franks or call them red hots. But should we call them dangerous? The American Academy of Pediatrics says so, because children can choke on them. Now an inventor says that he [...]
Americans Prefer Funny Videos To Online News
According to VentureBeat, the latest report from Pew Internet Research, The State of Online Video, confirms the suspicion that grown-up Americans see the Internet primarily as a source of unlimited cat videos, rather than a hard news medium. And when they do watch current events clips, they go for politics rather than reporting. Seven in [...]
SpaceX hit an important milestone by sending its Falcon 9 rocket into space, reports VentureBeat.SpaceX’s promise of commercialized space travel seems to be inching closer to reality. Back in 2008, it successfully launched the Falcon 1 after three unsuccessful tries, but that was more of a “proof of concept” vehicle, while SpaceX plans to use [...]
photo credit: Robert S. Donovan It’s not easy to know what is worth reading in social media these days. As technology makes it simpler and simpler to create content, the predictable problem this causes is that people who have no business creating content are doing it with abandon. Do any Google search that returns more [...]
Husband And Wife Herbalife Team
Direct sales may not be for everyone but for Donald & Claudette Beckwith, Herbalife is where it is at. Like many people who become sales representatives, Donald and Claudette were simply looking for a way to make a little extra money each month. After learning for some time they came upon Herbalife and they were [...]
Connecting The Dots In Your Business
photo credit: Josean Prado I’ll describe what needs to happen if you want to connect disparate pieces of information about the same person, organization, or entity. I hope you’ll be further persuaded of both the difficulty and the value of such an effort. The need is widely felt, whether you’re trying to connect the dots [...]
What Were You Thinking Marketing Moments
photo credit: Mr.Thomas We have all been there, those times when you temporarily loose your mind for a few seconds and do something very stupid and often funny. However, I read an article posted recently on Small Biz Trends that takes the cake on “what were you thinking moments”. Wearing a sweat pant suit to some [...]
