Women may not have a prominent place in mobile startups, but they do exist. Here is one woman recently featured at Forbes: A serial entrepreneur, Carol Realini has successfully lead companies through initial public offerings as well as acquisitions. She created “mobile financial services to all†with Obopay, her latest mobile payments and banking venture. […]
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Belfast Telegraph: Glastry Farm Ice-Cream in Kircubbin, Co Down turned to Invest Northern Ireland for help in developing an innovative product for a new business opportunity. It had identified the opportunity from its knowledge of markets in Great Britain, the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The small company, a farm-based enterprise specialising in premium
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Business Insider: Nick Chmura came up with the idea for his startup because he was fed up with getting nutcrackers for Christmas. “For my first fifteen Christmases I got 35 nutcrackers,” he tells us. “These people loved me and wanted to get me something but they didn’t know what to get me. I know they
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1921 – Baseball: The World Series is broadcast on the radio for the first time. 1962 – Dr. No, the first in the James Bond film series, is released. 1969 – The first episode of Monty Python’s Flying Circus airs on BBC One. 1990 – After one hundred and fifty years The Herald broadsheet newspaper
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1872 – Bloomingdale brothers opened their first store at 938 Third Avenue, New York City. 1955 – The Mickey Mouse Club debuts on ABC. 1964 – First Buffalo Wings are made at the Anchor Bar in Buffalo, New York. Bloomingdale’s started in 1861 when brothers Joseph and Lyman G. Bloomingdale started selling hoop-skirts in their
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Ever since transportation authorities placed rigorous limits on the amount of liquids allowed on flights, travellers have had to figure out how to both pack their favourite toiletries and comply with those regulations. According to trendspotter Springwise, helping consumers avoid bag-check charges or confiscation of their non-compliant toiletries and cosmetics, New York-based 3floz is an
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1889 – In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West. 1925 – John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system. John Logie Baird FRSE (13 August 1888 – 14 June 1946) was a Scottish engineer and inventor of the
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WSJ: You come up with a great idea. You take it to market. It flops. Oh, well—hit reset and try again. “In general, people don’t learn about complex issues by being told, they learn by actively participating in the process,” says John Sterman, a professor at the MIT Sloan School of Management in Cambridge, Mass.
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Crain’s Detroit: The Howard Johnson franchise on 28th Street in Grand Rapids has seen occupancy soar since owner Bob Sullivan made a seemingly unfashionable business decision: accommodate smokers. And not just the tobacco variety. Sullivan caters to marijuana smokers, as well. Twenty rooms already have been renovated to accommodate smokers. And by the time Sullivan’s
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