Archive for August 3rd, 2010
Join Rich Whittle as he talks with Mike Collins, Founder and CEO of The BIG Idea Group and how they help inventors bring their ideas to market, Wednesday on Dane Carlson’s Business Opportunities Weblog.
Inventor Legends: Edwin Binney and Harold Smith
Edwin Binney and Harold Smith founded Binney & Smith, Inc. in New York City in the late 1800s. At first, they specialized in industrial colorings—including the pigments that made country barns red and automobile tires black. Later, they began to make slate pencils for students. At the St. Louis World Exhibition in 1902, they won [...]
Lisa Bailey Montgomery tried for years to find a way to juggle a career while battling her desire to be at home with her children reports the DesMoinesRegister.com. After eight years, she’s found that balance with Distinctive Decorating by Lisa, LLC. After several years as a corporate buyer at Younkers, Montgomery was pregnant and decided [...]
Niche Biz: Upscale PortaPottys
If you were a guest at Chelsea Clinton’s wedding, you didn’t poop in just any porta-potty. Oh no, you pooped in one of these: A porcelain toilet that flushes, with a stereo and hot water, reports Gizmodo. Founded in 2006, Pretty Pottys provide elegant restrooms for any occasion, from the corporate awards ceremony that lasts [...]
VCs Seek The “Ninja Assassin” Entrepreneur
ABC News wonders, what does it take to make it as a tech-preneur? If you asked a venture capitalist, they would tell you that it takes a “ninja assassin”. So what exactly does that mean? The passion and focus associated with the Japanese discipline goes a long way in impressing would-be investors. “What I’m looking [...]
Cheez Doodle Creator 1920 – 2010
According to Inc.com, Morrie Yohai developed Cheez Doodles in the 1950s. The company already was selling Dipsy Doodles rippled corn chips, which were made with a machine that spit them out under pressure. His son Robbie Yohai says his father applied a similar concept for Cheez Doodles, adapting the machine to extrude liquefied cornmeal into [...]
Andrew Kitzenberg was a student at Babson College when he started developing his idea for a wristband that conceals a 2 gigabyte USB storage drive for easy, anytime access to electronic files, reports The Daily Grommet. His Memory On Hand bands have a casual look that’s geared for kids and young adults — and functionality [...]
A College Student T-Shirt Entrepreneur
If going to college isn’t hard enough, have you tried running a business at the same time? Raymond Lei is one such young entrepreneur that is doing just that. For Raymond it all started with a t-shirt order. As he shopped around at different printers it soon became obvious that all of his options were [...]
According to Bloomberg Businessweek, we are living in the golden age of coffee lid design. The breakthrough lid, Solo Cup’s Traveler model, made its debut in 1986 and is now part of the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent design collection. “Initially the Traveler lids were a tough sell, on account of its higher price,” says [...]
Teens Sew Up Duct-Tape Contest
Who says couture has to be expensive? Two teenagers walked away with $3000 each for creating their prom outfits entirely out of duct tape. The Arizona Republic says it took Ray Banna and Yancy Esquivel 300 hours to create their designs. They used scissors, permanent markers, a sewing machine and 30 rolls of duct tape. [...]
