Archive for January 28th, 2011
Worried about the injuries that occur with the traditional v-shaped handle while water skiing, Shawn Simmon has teamed up with Mike Murphy, sports legend and inventor, to create a unique t-shaped handle that will do less harm. According to The Friday Flyer, kids and adults have suffered injuries ranging from broken bones to death because [...]
Unique Marketing: Eating Dog Food
What would you do to promote your business? Would you eat your product? Hanna Mandelbaum and Alison Wiener are the co-founders of Evermore Pet foods, and they have pledged to eat their own dog food for one month to help market the product reports Poughkeepsie Journal. Starting March 1, the two will subsist on “human-grade [...]
What if your business card could do more than simply tell your customer the name of your business and your contact information? The goal of Inspire Card is to help you to do that. Their card is a unique marketing tool. It not only works as a business card, telling your customer about you, but [...]
The Transition From Employee To Entrepreneur
So you’ve decided to leave the work force and go out on your own. This is a transition that can be difficult, especially if we’ve never tried to take the self-employed route before now. However, that does not mean it is impossible. FeedFront recently took a look at some of the difficulties that comes with [...]
According to Fox News in Chicago, this is a disappointing story about a man named Keith Taylor. After all, he had done everything right. Keith had invented a unique turning signal back in the 80s. He patented that device, sought out a supplier, got paid, and got out. When the supplier went defunct, Keith lost [...]
Meagan Kurtz wanted a job that would be more flexible. She had just given birth to her third child and she knew that she wanted to be there for them. The industry she was already working in, advertising and marketing, just was not flexible enough to meet her needs. According to the Annandale Patch, she [...]
What do you do on Saturday night if you’re away at college and under 21? Visiting a local club is probably not an option. Jack Donnelly was faced with that problem. He wasn’t yet 21, so he couldn’t visit the local hotspots when Friday or Saturday night rolled around. Unfortunately, there weren’t any alternatives near [...]
Dictionary.com defines success in five different ways, the most obvious probably being, “the attainment of wealth, position, honors, or the like.” However, the dictionary version of success might be very different from your own. Before you can be a success, you must decide what that word means to you. Tri-Parish Times recently took a look [...]
Today in Entrepreneurial History: January 28
1820 – A Russian expedition led by Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Petrovich Lazarev discovers the Antarctic continent approaching the Antarctic coast. 1855 – The first locomotive runs from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean on the Panama Railway. 1878 – Yale Daily News becomes the first daily college newspaper in the United [...]
