Archive for February 22nd, 2012
Personal Robots for the Handicapped and Elderly
Economic Times: For over 10 years, an itch on his nose had been annoying Henry Evans. Many take such basic functions for granted, but not Evans. When he was 40, a stroke left him paralysed and mute. He can only move his head and partially move one finger. Evans could finally scratch that itch last [...]
4 Reasons Your Small Business is Sputtering
The following is a guest post by Dave Ashley. Ask any Fortune 500 executive and they’ll tell you that running a small business isn’t all kittens and rainbows. There’s a long, hard road to walk between hiring your first employee and retiring in Maui, and when your product isn’t selling or your business is losing [...]
Popular Science: On the frozen edge of the Kolyma River in northeastern Siberia, in an ancient pantry harboring seeds and other stores, an Arctic ground squirrel burrowed into the dirt and buried a small, dark fruit from a flowering plant. The squirrel’s prize quickly froze in the cold ground and was preserved in permafrost, waiting [...]
Infographic: Building The Better Entrepreneur
What does it take to build a better entrepreneur? Angel Investment Network takes a look.
Out of Work Techie? Write a Sci-Fi Novel
Computer engineers and computer scientists have been one of the hardest hit professions in this economic slump. For all their technical prowess, their jobless rates climbed quickly early in the recession compared to other professionals, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. But interestingly, while the computer geeks were losing jobs, science fiction novels were [...]
Businessweek: “Washington is not doing enough,” so businesses have to “step up,” Chief Executive Officer Howard Schultz said yesterday in a telephone interview. Customers of the Seattle- based company have given about $2 million to Create Jobs for USA since it was created last year. The Starbucks Foundation seeded the fund with $5 million to [...]
Today in Entrepreneurial History: February 22
1819 – By the Adams-Onís Treaty, Spain sells Florida to the United States for five million U.S. dollars. 1879 – In Utica, New York, Frank Woolworth opens the first of many of 5 and dime Woolworth stores. 1924 – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge becomes the first President to deliver a radio broadcast from the White [...]
The Invention of the Highlighter
NY Times.com: Once, when readers wanted to remember something, they had to mark important passages with thin, wobbly lines in drab, hard-to-relocate colors. Before the rise of the highlighter, says Dennis Baron, a University of Illinois professor and the author of “A Better Pencil,” attentive readers relied on “a combination of underlining and marginal notes.” [...]
Google Heads-Up Display Glasses in 2012
I’ve been waiting for something like this my entire life. According to the NY Times, Google plans to introduce heads-up display glasses by the end of the year. The glasses are expected to be based on the Android platform, and will also have a 3G data connection and GPS. People who constantly reach into a [...]
There is a reason people love the tagline, “There’s an app for that,” so much. It’s true. There are apps for everyone, including inventors. Here are a few shared by Davison Inventions. iHandy Carpenter This app has five of the most well designed tools for builders, makers and carpenters. InventionLand An app on a mission [...]
An Arabian Apprentice-Like Show To Launch
The new show may not feature Donald Trump, but it does seem to take a few cues from his American show, The Apprentice, reports Arabian Business. Titled ‘The Entrepreneur’, the show is likely to begin in the third quarter of 2012. “It welcomes a new genre of entrepreneurs: people who have ideas that are impactful [...]
Ideas Are Nothing Without Execution
What is a good idea if you do nothing with it? It is still just an idea. It takes work to build a simple idea into a successful business. So let’s consider that very first moment when you think it is a good idea to run your own show; you have read of these entrepreneurial [...]
