June 12, 2014

How Starbucks Started Up

Neatorama: In the early 1980s, a Swedish plastics company called Hammarplast sold plastic coffee filters that fit over a thermos. One day in 1981, one of the company’s salesmen, 27-year-old Howard Schultz, happened to notice that a small Seattle coffee roasting company called Starbucks Coffee, Tea, and Spices bought more of the coffee filters than

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Online Store For Commission-Based Sales

Springwise.com: We’ve seen several tools for helping businesses create an online storefront, including tinypay.me, but Brazilian Genstok takes such e-commerce efforts a step further by enabling users to stock these stores as well. Specifically, Genstok connects product suppliers with would-be sellers for commission-based partnerships. Users of Genstok begin by creating a virtual store on the

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Exotic Fruits Niche Market

KCET (blog): It is a long-held belief — or understanding, at least — that coffee only grows between the Tropic of Cancer and the Tropic of Capricorn. But a farm in Goleta, California is tackling that assertion and proving quite easily that coffee plants can thrive in the continental U.S. Farmer Jay Ruskey, the owner

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Just Add Water

It works for instant mixes, so why not for pet waste removal? Steve Rhodes has created a device that mades pet waste removal easy and fast reports The Oregonian. [It is called] the SaniPet. It’s a bottomless plastic container the pet owner buries in the ground. Much like in an existing product, the Doggie Dooley,

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Air-Powered Phone Charger

NewsMax: Lammoglia’s AIRE mask, which harnesses the wind power from breathing, “contains tiny wind turbines and the energy created is transferred through a cable to your electronic device,” the Mail reports. “I hope to bring the concept into production and reduce the carbon footprint,” Lammoglia told the Mail. “It can be used indoors or outdoors,

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