Archive for October 7th, 2010
Nearly nine years ago, I made the first post on this weblog about a company called YourCityguide.net. Whenever John Stewart, the owner of that company sends me an email I almost always post it just because. Here’s his most recent one: As you may remember you featured my first business opportunity at www.yourcityguide.net in your [...]
This press release from Doctors Express is interesting because of which aspects of the medical experience they’re highlighting their different approach to. Doctors Express, the first ever national urgent care franchise, has awarded a territory to a local businessman who plans to revolutionize medical care in the Sacramento area with a new concept in healthcare. [...]
Zoom in On Sounds in Loud Place
Scientists in Norway at Squarehead have developed a technology called AudioScope that apparently enables you to zoom in on sounds in huge, loud places like sports arenas or lecture halls. AudioScope is based on the same principle as sonar. A dish with an array of microphones can locate and record sound anywhere in a large [...]
Invention: Life Saving Bazooka
An Australian inventor has created a bazooka that shoots life preservers rather than rockets. News.com.au has more: Sam Adeloju last night won the £20,000 ($32,000) James Dyson Award, named after and patronised by the inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner which carries the Dyson name. His entry, the Longreach, is a modified bazooka which fires [...]
How to Make Money from Used Books
Slate has a great autobiographical profile of a man who makes a living buying and selling used books. If you’ve ever been a “friends of the library” book sale, you’ve seen him, or his type. They’re the ones who carry electronic bar-code scanners and PDAs. My scanner lies at the end of a cartridge that [...]
Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition
With more than $1 million in cash winnings, plus in-kind awards, the Accelerate Michigan Innovation Competition is the world’s largest business competition. The competition targets mid-to-late-stage business start-ups and entrepreneurs world-wide are eligible to participate. Grand prize is $500,000 plus in-kind amenities. Applications for business and students competitors are available here. Deadline for businesses is [...]
According to a story in Businessweek, Ray Land, 23, is known as the “young guy” in the charter bus industry, where most operators have decades of experience. “It’s not like the tech business, where a lot of young people start businesses [based on] new ideas,” says Land, who founded the company in high school after [...]
In the ’80s Tom Lennett was looking for a fun way to help his daughter learn math. He looked at different games but couldn’t find exactly what he was looking for. Instead of giving up his search, Tom created a game of his own. The Scrabble-like math game is starting to catch on in Finland [...]
Three Things To Be Successful With Social Media
Attempting social media marketing without a well-planned strategy is like jumping into the deep end of the pool when you can’t swim — not a recipe for success. At Entrepreneur’s Winning Strategies for Business conference, Starr Hall revealed three things you must do to be successful with social networking. 1. Build social proof: Social proof [...]
Top 10 Female Entrepreneur Receives Recognition From The President
Inspired by Theresa Alfaro Daytner’s success story, Obama praised her for what she’s done as an entrepreneur reports The Baltimore Sun. “I love Theresa’s story,” the president said before an audience that included billionaire investor Warren Buffett, hundreds of women entrepreneurs and 75 girls who aspire to become engineers, U.S. senators or professional race car [...]
Entrepreneur Pins Hopes On Nostalgia
Omaha entrepreneur Larry Richling, who struggled to remain solvent during the recession and credit crisis, now is outfitting a historic building in the Old Market as a simulated 1940s department store, reports The Omaha World-Herald. The sprawling former Fairmont Creamery at 12th and Jackson Streets will house a candy store, a burger-pizza-hot dog joint, an [...]
Some moms have an a-ha moment and decide to build their own business. Then there are some moms that have an a-ha moment but it never really goes beyond that idea. Sometimes there’s a mom that’ll have an a-ha moment and use it to help fellow mompreneurs sell their product. That mom would be Kim [...]
The Wall Street Journal says hiring momentum among small businesses reversed course last month following eight months of modest growth, a national report released Wednesday shows. Businesses that employ fewer than 50 workers cut 14,000 jobs, as did businesses with between 50 and 499 workers, according to payroll company Automatic Data Processing Inc. and consultancy [...]
That’s My Business!: Deskelf.com
In this edition of That’s My Business! we’re talking to Avi Zuber, co-founder of Deskelf.com. Listen Now: Popout Or download: That’s My Business!: Deskelf.com Deskelf.com website
