Archive for August 24th, 2010
Making Money from Students Writing Software
Maverick Software Consulting provides software consulting from mankato, Minnesota at prices that meet or beat Chinese and Indian software companies. How do they do it? Robert Cringley explains: This isn’t rocket science. The students are testing software, recording bugs, and doing middleware development mainly for a single client — Thomson Reuters. Reuters, in turn, has [...]
Surprisingly, it’s not just monetary rewards that motivate entrepreneurs. This video via Jeff Cornwall illustrates that it’s something else.
The Inventor Who Saved Christmas
Choosing not to pursue a medical career, Alfred C. Gilbert co-founded a company manufacturing magic sets in 1909. This company would later become the A. C. Gilbert Company, according to Wikipedia. Gilbert invented the Erector Set, a popular construction toy, in 1913. His inspiration was steel construction girders being used on the New York, New [...]
If you find yourself in the Hattiesburg area and you’re interested in learning a little bit about entrepreneurship and how business works then head on down to Pearl River Community College. Working together with MyBizAM project, they are offering a 33 hour Southern Entrepreneur Program (SEP) reports hattiesburgamerican.com. The program will teach individuals the basics [...]
Marketing Lessons From The Grateful Dead
I’ve never been a fan of the band, but have always marveled at the culture surrounding them – truly a unique following, turning each concert into an event beyond just music, reports Jon at 800CEORead.com. David Meerman Scott’s and Brian Halligan’s Marketing Lessons From the Grateful Dead: What Every Business Can Learn From The Most [...]
Business Owner Lives For Finding Rare Furniture
PatriotLedger.com: A Luigi Brusotti 1938 consul mirror, a set of 1950s Italian dining chairs and a vintage pen holder vaguely reminiscent of ET’s spaceship fill some of the nooks and crannies of Peter Levis’s BG Galleries, an antiques and vintage furniture store in Hingham. Levis specializes in Italian, French and American designer furniture from the [...]
Celebrity Inventor: Francis Ford Coppola
Some celebrities aren’t just pretty faces. A few of them are also touched with that Yankee prowess for tinkering and invention, according to the Atlantic magazine. Critically acclaimed producer, director, and screenwriter, Francis Ford Coppola had dominated that whole film industry scene by his mid-thirties. After winning a bunch of Oscars for his Godfather films, [...]
Hair Accessories For Your Little Diva
At any age, the right hair clip or headband can really made a statement. My Little Diva Accessories is helping our daughters stand out from the crowd with their line of flowery bows. With a variety of styles and colors they have a little something for every girl. Little Diva is the brain child of [...]
Entrepreneur Sells Board Games For $24M
According to a story in The Advertiser, entrepreneur Shane Yeend has sold two of the first board games he developed for $24 million. “Fact or Crap” and “Battle of the Sexes” – which was Australia’s biggest board game and the sixth-largest board game in the US at one point – have been sold to Canadian [...]
According to ThinkEquity, how much will consumers spend on virtual goods in the United States this year? $20.4 million $200.7 million $500 million $1.6 billion $2.8 billion View Results Answer tomorrow. Photo by jvangalen/funphotobox.
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