Archive for March 4th, 2011
Smart Shirts Will Monitor Heart Rate
Imagine that at your next routine check-up at your doctor’s office, you are given a new shirt to wear during your appointment. When the nurse comes in to check your vitals, she doesn’t bring a thermometer, or a blood pressure gauge. In fact, she doesn’t have to touch you at all. Instead, she finds your [...]
When Is the Right Time to Teach Kids Financial Skills?
The following is a guest post by Rudy DeFelice. As a father of three and founder of Kidworth, Rudy DeFelice is familiar with the issue of when parents should start addressing kids’ financial literacy. The answer may surprise some. Here’s a hint: most parents don’t start early enough. Given uncertain economic conditions, the rising cost [...]
Are You Fit For Entrepreneurship?
Deciding to become an entrepreneur requires a lot of commitment, skills, and the drive to succeed. However, there is no test that will tell you whether you will succeed or it is a bad idea. An education in business is not enough to guarantee your success. Forbes has put together a short list of “reality [...]
Moms in Business Unite Conference Registration Open
If you’re a mom who wants to participated in one of the five Moms in Business Unite conferences being held across the US this year, now is the time to register. Anyone that registers early will also receive an “early bird” discount. The early bird cost is $110 for the full-day San Diego and Boston [...]
While many of us spent the winter pushing our snowblowers up and down the driveway or sidewalk, Howard Davis created a way to ride on his, reports YorkRegion.com. Troubled by a gimpy right knee, Howard needed a gimmick that would allow him to do his own snow removal without walking. A grandson Christopher of Innisfil, [...]
Niche: Dirty Shopping Cart Handles
A new study has found that 72% of shopping carts handles have fecal matter on them. As many as 50% of those carts also tested positive for E. coli bacteria. According to the lead researcher from the University of Arizona study, Charles Gerba, “That’s more than you find in a supermarket’s restroom.” Don’t worry though, [...]
Today in Entrepreneurial History: March 4
1493 – Explorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal, aboard his ship Niña from his voyage to what is now The Bahamas and other islands in the Caribbean. 1628 – The Massachusetts Bay Colony is granted a Royal charter. 1792 – Samuel Slocum born, inventor of a machine for the production of wrought iron [...]
