Archive for June 14th, 2010
Brewing 9,000 Year Old Beer for Profit
Scientific American: This summer, how would you like to lean back in your lawn chair and toss back a brew made from what may be the world’s oldest recipe for beer? Called Chateau Jiahu, this blend of rice, honey and fruit was intoxicating Chinese villagers 9,000 years ago—long before grape wine had its start in [...]
Buy the Coffee, Get the Internet at Starbucks
Today, Starbucks announced via tweet that starting July 1st, internet access will be available via Wifi for free at all of their US locations. When you first login, you’ll be served with targeted content and news to go along with your latte.
Where to Market Your Invention Online
The following is a guest post by Deb Maubach of Homeschool-Entrepreneur.com. I recently read on Momma’s Choice about a family-owned website that consists exclusively of useful items invented by parents. If you have an invention that you have developed, then you will want to contact Inventive Parent.com and see if they will offer your product [...]
When a toy fad goes cold, make sure you’ve already explored the next big trend, says Wham-O CEO Kyle Aguilar. Bloomberg BusinessWeek recently sat down with Aguilar and asked him about toy fads. What is the life span of a hot toy? It can last decades or just a season. Sometimes a product has its [...]
TechCrunch Disrupt Award Winner
CNNMoney takes a look at the Winner of the $50,000 TechCrunch Disrupt Award, Soluto. In a field filled with Web-based and mobile apps, Soluto stood out starkly. It’s old-fashioned, runs-on-a-computer software. But the startup trounced all others by tackling a universal problem: PC troubleshooting. Soluto’s software monitors the PC it’s installed on for common annoyances [...]
Serial Entrepreneur & Under 25
Cincinnati.com: Energy seeps from this young guy in the bright-colored sneakers and a backward ball cap. So much that he can’t decide what to tell me about first. Maybe it’s My All Card, a savings card he co-created with a partner to offer discounts at more than 800 local businesses. Or the fact that Jeff [...]
University of California, Berkeley business students Nikhil Arora and Alex Velez perked up when a business ethics professor mentioned a sustainable business opportunity: using nutrient-rich discarded coffee grounds to grow mushrooms, reports Bloomberg BusinessWeek. Hooked on the idea of “creating a business out of waste streams,” Arora says, the pair tested the idea in a [...]
Mom Makes Millions With Healthy Snacks
HoumaToday.com: Nadja Piatka has the kind of mom-to-millionaire story Oprah would love. Piatka began her business in the early 1990s as a single mother baking low-fat goodies in her home. Ultimately she turned her enterprise into a company with international distribution. Piatka has authored two cookbooks, sold one of her recipes to Quaker and had [...]
When the NFL and MLB began using bobblehead dolls as promotional tools in the early ’60s, they sparked an obsession with the trinkets. After a two-decade slump in popularity beginning in the ’70s, the bobblehead stormed back after the San Francisco Giants distributed a Willie Mays figure at a 1999 game. Today, according to Fast [...]
Ridiculed Entrepreneur Is Success
The investors on BBC’s Dragons’ Den might have thought his creation was junk but this is one entrepreneur that has proven them wrong reports the Mail Online. James Nash refused to give up on his dream and he is having the last laugh as Marks & Spencer struggle to keep up with demand for his [...]
Is Your Great Idea A Real Biz?
Entrepreneurs constantly comb their brains and the world around them for new ideas. The trick often lies in figuring out whether a great idea actually has the potential to be a great business. According to Forbes, to sift out true business opportunities from the sand of merely bright ideas, would-be entrepreneurs can ask a series [...]
Turn News Events Into Publicity
The best PR programs often leverage a company’s best assets, its subject matter experts, by seizing and capitalizing on the news of the day. Aaron Kwittken at Entrepreneur calls this Carpe Diem PR. Absent new company developments, the key for any company is to secure frequent, meaningful media mentions and buzz, by finding natural ways [...]
