Archive for November 1st, 2010
WSJ: A small but growing number of chains—such as Cousins Submarines Inc., Tasti D-Lite LLC and Toppers Pizza Inc.—are following in the tire tracks of those local food-truck businesses popping up on city streets around the U.S. Many brick-and-mortar eateries have added mobile units in recent years, and more are expected to do the same, [...]
Every business knows that they need to track how many people are buying their products and services, but what specifically should you analyze when you’re marketing? Here are five questions to ask about your marketing: Who? Who is responding to your marketing? Do certain types of customers respond to certain ads? Who doesn’t respond to [...]
Combining Fantasy Sports And Fitness
According to The San Francisco Chronicle Jim Schutz tried everything to get lifelong friend Jeff Hagen to lose weight after Hagen hit 290 pounds and was diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. He tried encouragement, shame, humor and anger. Nothing worked until he appealed to Hagen’s love of fantasy football. I realized that if I could [...]
Have you ever wondered what inspired that frozen treat that we all know as Dippin’ Dots? The Chicago Sun-Times recently interviewed Curt Jones, the inventor of Dippin’ Dots, about his futuristic ice cream dots. Q. How did family, friends and colleagues respond when you pursued your business idea? A. “I took the frozen pellets to [...]
Should High Schools Sell Ad Space On Lockers?
According to The Star Tribune, school lockers are becoming the latest venue for bombarding kids with advertising. Just what that will look like is on display at the north suburban Centennial school administration building: four lockers wrapped in a bubblegum pink ad for the Mall of America’s “Underwater Adventures” aquarium. On Nov. 1, the school [...]
States Pour Government Money Into Wine
Dick Seibert has lost money every year since he opened Knob Hall Winery in rural Maryland in 2006. Now he’s looking for the financing needed to double his vines to 60 acres by yearend. “We’re not making money yet, although we’re not that far away,” says Seibert, 58. Businessweek reports that Seibert’s optimism is buoyed [...]
Daughters Follow In Mom’s Footsteps
Maggie Teed was a rebel when she was young so her parents sent her off to boarding school. After that she got married and had seven children. However, the marriage ended in divorce and left Maggie to be a single mother. Struggling to get by, she had a moment of inspiration. Deciding to try out [...]
Year-End Survival Tips For Entrepreneurs
Rosalind Resnick over at The Wall Street Journal has these year-end survival strategies to get you through January 2011. 1. Retool your business plan. The economy has changed, and your company has to change with it. Take whatever isn’t working and scrap it. If you haven’t looked at your business plan since you first wrote [...]
Some graduate students from Stanford University have used Autodesk Inventor software to create a prototype for a recyclable laptop reports Electronics News The students from Stanford and Finland’s Aalto University used Autodesk Inventor and Autodesk Inventor Publisher software to help develop and refine the innovative laptop during the school year. The software was used create [...]
We mentioned back in October that Dean Kamen was hosting a science TV show on Green Planet. If you don’t have Green Planet on your cable system you can still watch the first show on the internet here.I don’t know if Green Planet plans to stream every show. Photo by Green Planet.
On November 13, 2001, I started this humble website with a simple purpose, to find and highlight business opportunities that weren’t junk. Today marks the 18,000 post and begins to countdown to our 9th anniversary on November 13th. To say that I couldn’t have done this without the support of my readers is a cliche, [...]
