Archive for June 30th, 2010
Selling Fake Oil Spill Souvenirs
Jeffrey and David Shiffman are consummate entrepreneurs, attempting to make money off of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. They’ve turned their bathtub into a chemistry lab and are making and bottling “Oil Spill Water” to sell on their website oilspillwater.com. Originally, they were using the actual polluted water from the [...]
Why Are Weddings So Expensive?
The modern American couple starts life with a heavy financial burden: In a big city like Chicago, the average wedding costs between $22,500 and $37,500. Yet in the 1930s, it was cheap, costing around $400. There’s no question that wedding prices are out of control. What went wrong?
Facebook Friends Connect In Business
No story starts out sounding much stranger than it does for this group. Having connected on Facebook they left all of their friends and family behind to live in a house together, many miles from home. Together they hope to launch the next go-to brand in social media marketing reports The Orange County Register. It [...]
Marilyn Monroe’s Chest X-Ray Sells For $45,000
Someone must’ve really liked Marilyn Monroe – either that or chest X-ray – because they’ve shelled out $45,000 for it, reports Neatorama. A 1954 x-ray of the stunning starlet’s chest sold at auction in Las Vegas on Sunday for a sizable $45,000. This was well above the estimated $800 to $1,200 it was expected to [...]
Fans Of “Facebook With Training Wheels”
The San Jose Mercury News checks in with the creator of Togetherville, a website often called “Facebook with training wheels.” Although he declined to discuss figures, the website’s creator says parents are embracing the idea of a social networking site where they have the control. The company, which just secured venture capital funding, says it [...]
Getting Their Home Out Of The Mud Using T-Shirts
Two mom wanted to help the people around them get unstuck so they started up a small side business to help raise money for flood victims in Tennessee, according to jacksonsun.com. “We wanted to do something for West Tennessee,” Beth Murley said. “There are a lot of fundraisers for Nashville and Middle Tennessee … And [...]
Flying Car Goes into Production
The Terrafugia Transition, a light aircraft that looks like a Volkswagen Beetle and can convert into a road-legal automobile, is to go into production after being given a special weight exemption by the US Federal Aviation Administration. The car/plane will be available for $194,000. The press release is available after the jump.
Recurve, a six-year-old construction company in the Bay Area, focuses on energy audits and “home performance retrofits”—that is, making houses use less energy, reports Bloomberg Businessweek. The company is also developing software to help other contractors record, track, and report data on energy savings for clients. Founder Matt Golden says Recurve’s employees help about 30 [...]
TechCrunch: The iPhone 4 hasn’t even been out a week and already awrapforthat.com has popped up to make vinyl skins that wrap around the perimeter of the device. Why would anyone want that? Because of the iPhone 4 antenna issues — the so-called “Death Grip” problem.
Can A Ball Help Kids Learn Braille?
Imagine if you could pick up Braille just by playing with a ball. Fast Company reports that a new conceptual toy by recent Pratt grad Danielle Pecora is designed precisely for that. Be-B is a ball that helps kids, blind or not, learn Braille through touch and sound. Looking a bit like a stiff Koosh [...]
KansasCity.com: It was December 2008, and Jason Day had something to show his barbecue contest teammate Aaron Chronister. Day, having thrown back some holiday cheer at one Christmas party, showed up late in the evening for his second party, at Chronister’s place in Brookside. Day walked into the kitchen, tossed on the table a Styrofoam [...]
States Ease Food Safety Rules For Homemade Goods
The Associated Press reports that federal and state laws require that most food sold to the public be made in licensed facilities open to government inspectors. But as more people become interested in buying local food, a few states have created exemptions for amateur chefs who sell homemade goods at farmers markets and on small [...]
Many of us still don’t want to look the recession directly in the eye. We would rather acknowledge it in a back corner of our mind, and remain positive in the front of our mind as if there is nothing wrong. If you are one of these business owners who would rather remain positive up [...]
Many business owners often times reach a point in their business career where they realize that their business is in desperate need of enhancement, but yet they don’t usually know how to go about doing this. Well below are a few ideas for those of you who may find yourself at this point with your [...]
