Archive for April 29th, 2011
Finding Sunken Golf Balls Via Camera
Eric Schwartz was 8 years old when he began to wonder why golf ball retrievers did not come with underwater cameras. He was golfing with his grandfather that day, and he told young Eric to write that idea down. It has been many years, and according to The Palm Beach Post he is making that [...]
Peter Wooldridge’s two sons enjoy the benefits of their father’s job, but baulk at the idea of one day following in his footsteps. You see, Wooldridge Senior is a Tupperware salesman and can well appreciate his boys’ aversion to joining the family business. “They’ve grown up with Dad selling tupperware,” the Adelaide man says with [...]
Big Business In iPhone Accessories
For a company as innovative as Apple, you would think their iPhone, iPad, or iPod devices would use some color in their cables. They may not, but Laurens Laudowicz saw an opportunity to make a little money selling colorful cords that device owners could use. Laudowicz launched his project and posted it on Kickstarter for [...]
Today in Entrepreneurial History: April 29
1882 – The “Elektromote” – forerunner of the trolleybus – is tested by Ernst Werner von Siemens in Berlin. 1953 – The first U.S. experimental 3D-TV broadcast showed an episode of Space Patrol on Los Angeles ABC affiliate KECA-TV. 2004 – Oldsmobile builds its final car ending 107 years of production.
Surviving Entrepreneurship While Pregnant
If you thought being a mom-entrepreneur wasn’t hard enough, you should try being a pregnant entrepreneur. Darla DeMorrow has published a book outlining advice and tips for the mom or mom-to-be that is trying to run a business while fitting in everything else in between. She tackles the topics that many moms do not consider [...]
Perhaps this is a message best read via teleprompter. ABC News reports that the inventor of the teleprompter, Hubert J. ‘Hub’ Schlafly Jr., died last week at the age of 91. His device not only helped change the way news reporters read the news or actors acted, it is even used to help the president [...]
A Bookstore That Only Sells One Book
At a small bookstore in New York City, if you’ve seen one book, you’ve seen them all, because the shop only sells one book, Martian Summer: Robot Arms, Cowboy Spacemen, and My 90 Days With the Phoenix Mars Mission. The author rented the small retail space to promote his book for a few weeks. The [...]
