Archive for the 'baseball' Tag
Niche Biz: Cufflinks Made out of Baseballs
CNN: Ravi Ratan purchased the domain name Cufflinks.com as an offshoot of his family’s third-generation menswear company and with plans to eventually start a business. Even before the site was developed, Ratan immediately started receiving e-mails from people looking for cufflinks online. To capitalize on the interest, he took photos of the inventory in one [...]
The Cooperstown Cookie Company
CNN: Cracker Jack, peanuts, hot dogs. It almost seems like ballpark food is more exciting than the game itself. And if Pati Grady has anything to do with it, we’ll soon be adding shortbread cookies to the list of iconic ballpark snacks. In 2004, Grady searched online for a baseball cookie cutter to no avail. [...]
WSJ: Anyone who has seen a Major League Baseball game the past few years has seen the absurdity: wooden bats constantly splintering, shattering and breaking, their shards fluttering across the field and occasionally into the stands. But where the rest of us saw an annoyance and potentially a danger, two fans saw a business opportunity. [...]
