January 14, 2013
ABC News: If you can’t find someone to hire you, consider hiring yourself. Not only can entrepreneurship bring great personal fulfillment, but launching a→
Springwise: Loyalty programs have been around for years—as evidenced by the mass of cards weighing down many consumers’ wallets—but the difficulty of keeping track→
Niche Biz: Flower Beds and Planters Profiles
From spring to fall, many yards are filled with beautiful flowers. If that yard is in the same neighborhood as Kathleen Gostissa, it was→
What if there was a way to get back some of the deposits from your called-off wedding? Someone else asked the same question and→
Toronto Sun: Fort Myers was just a seaside village of 350 souls when Edison arrived in 1886. He thought the strands of a special→
New Spin On Aging Art: Ink Dial Inventions
Decantur Daily: The Ink Dial addresses what Chouinard said is a common frustration in printing. Jars of colored ink can be expensive, averaging around→
Are we running out of farm land? If you believe the experts, we might be. If you look at a map of the world→
On this day in 1984 Ray Kroc died. Though he didn’t start the company, Kroc is best known as the man who built McDonald’s→
The Independent: Who would have thought that the future of weight loss might lie in the hands of the inventor of the Segway? Dean→
Although this story from Stuff.co.nz is included because it is funny, there’s a nugget of an idea here. What can you collect and sell→
Buried in Style: Cruisin Caskets Inventions
Cruisin Caskets is a casket fabricating company that creates custom car designs for the car lover that wants to leave this world in style.→
Koi ponds are relaxing for the owner to watch, but the up keep is not nearly as fun. The cost of keeping the pond→
Auto Targeting Rifle Inventions
Extreme Tech: At CES 2013, thanks to a company called TrackingPoint, hunting rifles can now be considered a piece of consumer electronics. Starting at→
Lawrence Journal-World: At this time last year, the price of a frozen, euthanized mouse was 45 cents. But now, that price has nearly doubled,→
Remote Control Snow Plow Inventions
The Roboplow is a remote controlled snow plowing machine. Weighing in at nearly 1000 lbs, the machine has an NPC T74 Motor and an→
Grave Groomers Biz Ops
As Daniel Felkins’ grandmother approached the age of 90, she realized that she needed help doing things she had once done herself. One of→
