Galco’s Soda Pop Stop in Los Angeles looks like any other mom-n-pop grocery store when you enter, but a quick look around and you’ll see what makes the shop unique. The store sells nothing but soda, 500 different types of fizzy sweet-tooth-satisfying beverages. CHOW.com profiles Galco’s in a bubbly documentary that will have you wanting […]
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If you’re Las Vegas, and you have thousands of underused hotel/condo rooms because of the economic downturn, what do you do with them? If you’re Candace Bailey of Luxury Suites International, you profit. Her company serves condo owners looking to save their investments and hotels needing cash flow on empty rooms by providing a hybrid
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Minnesota Public Radio News: Rob Fuglie’s brainstorm began with the swinging of a hammer to smash sunflower seeds on his kitchen counter. His young son is allergic to nuts and so, tired of munching plain old sunflower seeds, Fuglie endeavored to create something more crunchy and tasty. “My wife and I missed peanuts in our
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On a trip to Las Vegas for his 30th birthday, one of Gavin Cooper’s friends had the hotel deliver a bottle of champagne to his room. With this surprise bottle of bubbly consumed, a business idea popped into his head: What if you could send a bottle of champagne to anyone, anywhere? When he got
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The video below is from Patrick McKenzie’s talk at the Business of Software 2010. The slides from his presentation are available here.
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The online mom network is huge. With women like Scarlet Paolicchi, it comes as no surprise just how much power this close-knit community has. Scarlet is the founder of Moms Wear Your Tees Social Media Marketing. She helps entrepreneurs find the exposure their businesses need through various social networking websites. I recently asked her a
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Medical technology is always changing, and we can thank people like Dr. Kim Manwaring. He has invented the Ferromagnetic Wand. It a type of scalpel that cauterizes while cutting, minimizing the amount of blood loss that occurs during surgery. Unlike current electrosurgical tools, the wand uses a paper clip-like tip coated with a special alloy
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NY Times: The wheels of justice tend to be slow, but arrests can happen with lightning speed — and what happens next can be crucial. In searches, seizure and interrogation, things can go badly wrong. Enlarge This Image Chris Miles helped found LawyerUp, an Easton, Conn., company that promises to get people in trouble a
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Dave Vogt was born without his left hand. From birth, he began wearing a hook in its place. What was a part of life for Dave soon inspired Mark Stark. Mark went to work in his home and put together a prosthetic hand his friend could use for the tasks where a hook would fall
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Slate: A faded starlet dancing at an oligarch’s birthday bash. A chef preparing a dinner party in a stranger’s kitchen. A best-selling author entertaining a conference hall filled with oil executives. Reputation has always been another form of income, and successful people have long found innumerable creative ways to monetize their time. Now a start-up
