Archive for July 16th, 2010
How Some Sugary Treats Got Their Names
We reach for them when we need a sugar fix, but how well do we know the stories behind our favorite ice creams, cookies, and snack cakes? Mental Floss takes a look at the names behind some of our guilty pleasures. 1. Häagen-Dazs What does the upscale ice cream company’s name mean? Nothing! Polish American [...]
Webpreneur Aims To Boost Local Economy With Search Engine
While watching his father struggle to find affordable and effective advertising Clifton Cooper was inspired. He went to work and created a localized search engine called Coachella Valley Webpages. Now locals have a place to search when they want to find a new business to visit reports The Desert Sun. The new local search platform [...]
Comic: That’s Not How You Start A Business
That’s Not How You Start a Business #1
Bloomberg Businessweek reports that fear of financial collapse has enhanced gold’s glitter, with prices soaring more than 300 percent the past decade, including 30 percent just in the last 12 months. And just as strong U.S. real estate prices a few years ago created a burgeoning ecosystem of entrepreneurs exploiting that bubble, gold’s surge has [...]
Mom And Daughter Team Launch Golf Fashion Line For Women
According to WNDU.com, Cindy and Laura Ormson started their business in 2007. It has been 3 years since they launched their clothing line and their basement-based business is still booming. Laura Ormson, co-founder of Wear to Win, has been golfing since she was kid and didn’t like the options available when it came to outfits [...]
Cavemen Could Charge This Battery
Cavemen don’t have electrical outlets to plug in their rechargeable batteries, but they do know how to shake things. Soon, based on a new product from the Japanese company Brother Industries you’ll be able to buy AA and AAA batteries that incorporate vibration-powered induction generators that’ll charge up when you shake them.
A reader asked: Why is the pizza the only food you can get delivered? What’s the history of pizza delivery? According to PizzaDelivery.com, in 1889, King Umberto and Queen Margherita had the privilege of getting the first known pizza delivered by Raffaele Esposito, the most famous Pizzaaiolo (pizza chef) in Naples, Italy. In honor of [...]
Waiting on hold stinks. Free service LucyPhone can listen to the hold music for you, then call you back when a real human picks up. Lifehacker says head to Lucyphone’s site, look up the number of the company you’re calling (or add it to their database), then hand over your own number. Lucyphone calls you [...]
The Salt Lake Tribune: Davinci Suites has started an entrepreneur-support program in which it offers office space and services for as low as about $50 a month to startup businesses. The Salt Lake City company that provides flexible office space and business services in four locations in the Salt Lake Valley is offering about half [...]
According to the Gazette-Times, Kaichang Li, a professor of wood science at Oregon State University, receives a dozen calls each day from businesses interested in his laboratory’s latest invention: an inexpensive adhesive made of natural materials. He said they’re interested in the adhesive’s use of simple, reusable ingredients, including vegetable oil, which keeps costs down. [...]
Mile Meter likes to think of itself as the “anti-insurance insurance company.” It sells auto insurance by the mile — which means that the less you drive, the less you pay for insurance. See how Chris Gay, founder and chief executive, managed to keep the company alive. Video via New York Times ‘You’re the Boss’ [...]
