Archive for February 1st, 2012
Knowem: Check Every Social Networking Site At Once
Are you tired of having to manually check all of your potential domain names against Twitter, Facebook, and all of the other social media websites? Never again. KnowEm is a website that allow you to check for the use of your brand, product, personal name or username instantly on over 590 popular social media websites.
Things You Learn Running a Bookstore
People are getting rid of bookshelves. Treat the money you budgeted for shelving as found money. Go to garage sales and cruise the curbs. While you’re drafting that business plan, cut your projected profits in half. People are getting rid of bookshelves. If someone comes in and asks where to find the historical fiction, they’re [...]
Does your spouse love to watch 3D movies at the movie theater? Do they give you a headache? Hank Green loves 3D movies. Unfortunately, his wife does not. In fact, she’d get a headache each time they went. He didn’t want his wife to be in pain, but he also didn’t want to give up [...]
Should You Invest in a Sports Franchise?
With the Super Bowl right around the corner, it’s a good time to ask: What are the pros and cons of sports investing? Consider this investing proposition: You have a chance to invest in businesses that have been around since the 1920s and are growing in popularity. These companies have an intensely loyal consumer base; [...]
In this post on the Priceonomics Blog, Ryan Finlay recounts his business: Craigslist scavenger. The scrap yard’s electromagnetic steel excavator picked up my two steel die cast molds and put them on the scale. 1,240 pounds of steel! That meant $179.80 in my wallet for an hour of work. Not bad considering I picked them [...]
TurningArt: The Netflix of Paintings
TurningArt.com is a Netflix for art. Starting at $10 per month, you select from a variety framed 16” x 20” museum quality prints and choose one that you’d like to see on your walls. If you don’t like it, you can send it back and you’ll be shipped the next piece from your online queue. [...]
A Connecticut woman has started a mobile hospice service for pets the The Stamford Times reports: For pet owners, saying goodbye is one of the hardest things to do, but Stamford resident Mary Craig says her new mobile veterinary hospice service makes saying farewell a bit easier. “I have heard from many pet owners that [...]
Entrepreneurship: It’s Not About the Cupcakes
This graphic was inspired by this quote from Jeanette Mulvey, managing editor of BusinessNewsDaily: Being an entrepreneur is almost never about the business you’re in. So, you like cupcakes. Great. That doesn’t necessarily mean you should open a bakery – unless you like working early in the morning, managing lots of people and figuring out [...]
Looking for Cheaper Medicine, He Found a Biz Idea
The Washington Post: They say there are markets for everything, but health care has historically been a tough one to navigate. Prices for services and drugs vary widely among providers, and it’s often impossible to know the final cost of a medication until the prescription has already been filled. Brad Bangerter, a health insurance administrator [...]
Today in Entrepreneurial History: February 1
1884 – The first volume (A to Ant) of the Oxford English Dictionary is published. 1893 – Thomas A. Edison finishes construction of the first motion picture studio, the Black Maria in West Orange, New Jersey. Although it wasn’t the first dictionary, the Oxford English Dictionary was a monumental undertaking. The dictionary took more than [...]
Flaming Floater: Grilling on the Water
If you’re the kind of person who gets in lake on the first day of summer, and doesn’t get back out until Labor Day, you’re in the target market for a new product out of Minnesota called the Flaming Floater. The Flaming Floater is, as you might have guessed from the name, a floating BBQ [...]
Video: This Is How They Serve Ice Cream In Dubai
Does anyone know what company this is? via Bits and Pieces.
Superbowl Ad For The Little Guy
Superbowl ads may represent the largest companies around the world, but one ad this Sunday will be for the “little guy,” reports OC Register. Kauffman says that the ad, which employs the same animated illustration style used in the Foundation’s popular Sketchbook series, outlines the growth of a simple idea into a successful business. It [...]
Potato Farmer/Inventor Makes Sorters Affordable
The Packer: Jones said he was motivated to create the E-Sorter because he wanted to give growers a better option at a better price. He said there are a of lot high-tech sorting/grading machines with expensive computerized scanners and cameras that were designed with the process in mind, but not the grower. “I started working [...]
Musical Tool Land Inventor In The Shark Tank
Dothan Eagle: Thirty years ago, Travis Perry watched as guitar students of all ages became frustrated during lessons. Many would give up within 60 days – a time Perry calls the “two-month hump.” Perry eventually stopped teaching guitar and went to college. He played with the band Silverado, lived in Nashville for a while, owned [...]
