Archive for June 29th, 2010
Business Card Redesign Contest
MOO.com, a custom business card printer, is offering free business card redesigns for 500 small businesses. To apply for MOO’s Business Card Project, submit a existing business card online and fill out a short application, including a 100-word essay about why your card needs a redesign. Entries will be accepted until August 31, 2010.
The X Prize Foundation, which fueled private space travel with their ten million dollar prize for the first rocket capable of making reliable flights into space announced a new prize this weekend. They will award $3 million for a cleanup of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. CNN has the details.
Discovery News: Dentists could soon hang up their drills. A new peptide, embedded in a soft gel or a thin, flexible film and placed next to a cavity, encourages cells inside teeth to regenerate in about a month, according to a new study in the journal ACS Nano. This technology is the first of its [...]
According to The Morning Sentinel, it’s easy to learn, fun, and extremely popular, say those who play pickleball. Say what? Yes, pickleball. You might call it a cross between badminton, pingpong and tennis. It’s played with a net, paddles and a ball with holes in it, similar to a Wiffle ball. The game, while developed [...]
Inventor and futurist Ray Kurzweil sat in his office late last week, confidently spinning scenarios with timelines that stretched to 2020, 2030, and beyond, according to The Boston Globe. But the near-future was also on his mind: WorldFuture 2010, the annual conference organized by the World Future Society, scheduled for July 8-10 at the Westin [...]
Microfinance Goes Where Banks Fear To Tread
Gentle Parking has grown quickly since William Ortiz-Cartagena started the San Francisco company two years ago. He now employs 25 people and says he turns a decent profit running six parking lots, including two he manages for the city. When he decided to bid on a contract to run another city-owned lot, though, two banks [...]
Painting The Mountains… Literally
Telegraph.co.uk: By painting the mountains, Eduardo Gold hopes to replicate the effect of Andean glaciers, which reflect back sunlight and hence heat back through the atmosphere. The technique is scientifically plausible and, according to some scientists, may be the only method of lowering global temperatures in a crisis. “A white surface reflects the sun’s rays [...]
The Early Bird Really Does Get The Worm
People whose performance peaks in the morning are better positioned for career success, because they’re more proactive than people who are at their best in the evening. According to Harvard Business Review, biologist Christoph Randler surveyed 367 university students, asking what time of day they were most energetic and how willing and able they were [...]
The Entrepreneurial Rollercoaster
It takes a little bit of insanity, according to Tina Paparone writing for Reuters, to start a business but sometimes it just might send you over the edge too. How do you stay sane? After two years of being on the rollercoaster ride of entrepreneurship, these are the things I’ve found help me manage the [...]
Founder and president Sarah Beatty bills Green Depot as the country’s largest green building supplier, with 10 showrooms and 20 warehouses across the Northeast. She says the fast-growing business isn’t expanding merely for the sake of growth, but to make sustainable building products accessible and affordable so they can be easily adopted in standard construction. [...]
Work At Home Scams Popping Up On Twitter
With thousands of people out of a job right now work at home schemes are popping up all over the internet, Vegas’ 13 Action News reports. The latest one involves Twitter. Scammers are using the pitch that you can make money by sending emails or posting links on Twitter or by placing ads on Google [...]
Add A Little Spice To Your Life
I think it is pretty safe to say that people enjoy their food with a little spice. While some prefer it be slightly mild, there are some people that truly enjoy their food full of spice and heat. Bob de Gouveia is one of those individuals. He loved to spice up his foods, especially curry. [...]
Should You Pay To Trademark Your Product Or Service?
According to a story at VentureBeat, filing for a federal trademark can be an expensive endeavor, costing thousands of dollars. So unless you have the resources, it might be best to try more cost effective ways of protecting your brand. The good news is you don’t necessarily have to do anything to have a protectable [...]
Online banking is a double-edged sword for small businesses: It’s easy and convenient, and yet it makes them vulnerable targets for cybercriminals. There are a lot of small businesses out there, and they don’t all have the big budgets for IT resources or a large staff. Another potential downside is that as a small business, [...]
Many professional bloggers tend to have a hard time updating or improving their blog in order to receive the very best out of their blog. I have put together a small list of some tips that you can follow in order to improve your blog instantly and be sure to get the most out of [...]
Open Forum: There are 130 million blogs on the Internet (according to Technorati), and 350 million people reading blogs daily (according to Comscore). Clearly, engaging with influential bloggers can be a real boon to your business, if you can win them over towards your brand and persuade them to evangelize your product. Rather than offering [...]
