photo credit: Veyis Polat Here’s another camel business idea: This time, they’re being used for meat in Australia. Business owners and environmentalists in Australia are promoting camels as a source of meat to battle an explosion of the country’s camel population. The Daily Telegraph said Tuesday that environmentalists support the stance of business owners like […]
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Gator Man Mike in Naples, Florida has started a business letting people hug his pet alligator for $5. The five-year-old alligator, Baby Bobby, weighs about 35 pounds and apparently loves being cuddled. The alligator wears a muzzle on his head and according to the Gator Man Mike, the gator loves the hugs: “They’re smarter than
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Fitted Fashion is using 3D body scanners and fancy software to develop custom blue jeans: The scans, says cofounder and recent Harvard Business School graduate Jamal Motlagh, helps Fitted Fashion derive a precise set of individual body measurements that he and his team can then use to make perfectly fitted clothing. “Self or tailor-made measurements
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Taipei Times: It’s noon in Taipei, 5am in Paris and midnight in New York as I take my seat in economy class. The seatbelt and no smoking lights have been switched on and the monitor on the wall shows a plane taking off. A “stewardess†comes over to take my order. A380 In-Flight Kitchen is
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1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (known best as the Harvard Mark I). 1955 – Tokyo Telecommunications Engineering, the precursor to Sony, sells its first transistor radios in Japan. Sony’s cofounders, Masaru Ibuka and Akio Morita, met near the end of World War II. Ibuka was an engineer
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The Guardian: A “new frontier” in mining is set to be opened up by the underwater extraction of resources from the seabed off the coast of Papua New Guinea, despite vehement objections from environmentalists and local activists. Canadian firm Nautilus Minerals has been granted a 20-year licence by the PNG government to commence the Solwara
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Now here’s an idea for a business opportunity you might not have thought of before: How about starting a lawn painting business? No, really. It’s a thing. Read on to find out more.
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Whether or not you still carry business cards, nothing says “a proper business person” like a fancy business card. Here are ten unique ideas to inspire you. More, as a I find them.
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It is a startling fact but the huge majority of business fail, often within the first 18 months of trading. A major reason for this wide scale failure is that owners make poor financial decision during the infancy of their company. Make sure you steer your company safely through this sensitive time of its life
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Over the last year I have created a growing business working both online and offline. It is a joy to me to step into my study each morning and settle down to work. This wasn’t always the case, though. In my earlier efforts I was chaotic, hurried, and short-tempered. Learning a systems based approach has
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