Archive for February 9th, 2011
Candyman: Inventor of Jelly Belly
Candyman: The David Klein Story, is a film that tells the story of the inventor of Jelly Belly jellybeans. Despite Jelly Belly’s popularity and success, Klein’s life didn’t turn out the way one might expect. Candyman tells the amazing true story of David Klein, an eccentric candy inventor from LA, who in 1976 had a [...]
Water Challenge: Fight Rising Water & Win Money
If you’ve had an idea on how to stop rising water from invading coastal communities and you have yet to act on it, now may be the perfect time to do so. The Idea Village and Greater New Orleans Foundation are working together to give one lucky entrepreneur $50,000 to help him or her turn [...]
Managing Risk Is What Entrepreneurs Do Best
When you seek money from an investor, one of the first questions they will ask is, “How much of your own money, and friends and family, have you put into the new business?” If you are not willing to put your own money at risk to start or grow your business, there is no reason [...]
Mom’s Need Transforms Into Baby Gear Shop
After Ellen Diamant had her first child, it soon became clear to here that there was a need not being filled. That need was quite obvious to anyone that has ever struggled with a diaper bag, while trying to maneuver a stroller or any other gear. That initial idea was to make an attachment for [...]
What do they do with snow parks in the summer? I don’t know, I’ve never been to one. If you had a dozen or so Ice Meister Slicers, you could open a snow park in any weather — even in the blistering heat of summer! On the bottom of the Slicer are two removable ice [...]
Drobo: Bigger, Safer External Hard Disks
External drives either run out of disk space, or they fail — and hopefully not at the same time! Drobo has solved this problem for me. The Drobo is a external box that you connect to your computer via a USB or Firewire cable and then fill with hard disk drives. The Drobo magically turns [...]
A Soapy Solution To Handwashing
By washing your hands regularly, it is the best way to help prevent getting sick. However, knowing that will not make your kid want to wash their hands any more than they already do. One day Michael Reiter had asked his kids to wash their hands. Like always, they kept putting it off. Around the [...]
Hundreds of New Domain Suffixes Coming
Nine and a half years ago, shortly after the introduction of the .biz top-level domain, I registered this domain, business-opportunities.biz. Ever since, people’ve wondered whether or not I was crazy not to go with a nice, normal, dot com. Well, it looks like I’ll finally be vindicated in my decision. In a decade, the dot [...]
The Secret Flaw With Scratch-Off Lottery Tickets
What would you do if you discovered a secret flaw in scratch-off lottery tickets that allowed you to determine in advance whether or not a ticket was a winner? A geological statistician in Canada named Mohan Srivastava was just that guy. Srivastava had been hooked by a different sort of lure—that spooky voice, whispering to [...]
Time is Money: Meeting Cost Calculator
Bring TIM! (Time Is Money) is a meeting cost calculator. It will tell you the cost of every second that ticks by! Introducing Bring TIM!® (Time Is Money) – a fun yet useful office clock that tallies the dollars spent in long meetings. Simply enter the number of people in the room, ballpark an average [...]
Do you like the totally bald look? Do you hate spending the time to shave your head? This head shaving helmet might be just want you’re looking for. The helmet sprays the head with shaving cream and then four razors move back and forth across your head for about twenty seconds. At the end, you [...]
