November 26, 2013

Reading Today: Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World

New York Times bestselling author and social media expert Gary Vaynerchuk shares hard-won advice on how to connect with customers and beat the competition. A mash-up of the best elements of Crush It! and The Thank You Economy with a fresh spin, Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook is a blueprint to social media marketing strategies […]

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SoMoLend: Connecting Entrepreneurs With Lenders

News

When it comes to entrepreneurs launching small businesses, they can use all the help they can get. SoMoLend is a website that can help. SoMo’s software is designed to use the Web to match borrowers with lenders, connecting business borrowers seeking loans of $35,000 or less with investors looking to make a return on investment.

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Human Library: Borrowing People And Listening To Their Story

Books

Worldcrunch: In the Human Library you can rent people who have been through difficult times – and they will tell you all about it. Itâ€™s a way of debunking the stereotypes that have spread around Great Britain. They are each sitting at a round table and wearing yellow silk sashes with â€œbookâ€ written across. A

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Brainstorm A Great Business Name

News

Entrepreneur: When it comes to brainstorming company names, often quantity matters more than quality — at least at the start of the process. Here are a few guidelines for generating a whole lot of quantity. Once you have at least a handful of solid contenders, you can decide on the quality. 1. Gather the right

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TruFlavorWare: Lets The True Flavor Through

Featured, Interviews

Sick of the metallic or plastic taste that comes with using that style of silverware? Don Ladanyi has created a unique, non-metallic silverware that allows the true flavor of the food to come through. His TruFlavorWare is great for people sensitive to those tastes, but the quality of the product and the “Made in USA”

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MelaFind Melanoma Detector

Inventions

Fast CoExist: Melanoma is a serious cancer, and one that isnâ€™t always easy to spot. However, a new device called MelaFind uses imaging technology adapted from Defense Department target of interest identification programs to analyze irregular moles–and can even spot melanoma in its early stages. Currently available only in the northeast United States and Germany,

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Moms Making Big Money Selling Baby Products

News

cbs11tv.com: Amy Long and Samantha Scott are two local entrepreneurs who think they know what moms want. After all, they’re experienced mothers. Long and Scott created two different products that weren’t readily available when their children were babies. They are moms making money marketing to other moms. It’s a consumer group that’s continually renewing itself.

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No More Static Prices

Ideas

WSJ: The fast-moving Internet pricing games used by airlines and hotels are now moving deeper into the most mundane nooks of the consumer economy. Deploying a new generation of algorithms, retailers are changing the price of products from toilet paper to bicycles on an hour-by-hour and sometimes minute-by-minute basis. The pricing wars were fought last

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Vacuum-Thermoformed Blow Molded Acrylic Baby Bed

Ideas

Gizmag.com: As any sleep-deprived parent will tell you, there’s nothing quite like the joy of seeing your precious newborn drift off to sleep in a safe environmentâ€¦ if only because it means you might get a few minutes’ rest yourself. As such, there are countless products on the market which promise to help you achieve

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Breaking Bad is Every Small Business

Ideas

With the season finale of â€œBreaking Badâ€ having aired, Iâ€™ve been doing a bit of thinking around the show premise, and how similar the plot line is to the development of a startup. The same problems that happen to Walt Enterprises in the show happen to all founders when trying to build a company. Product.

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