When we hear the word “entrepreneur,” we tend to conjure up images of tech magnates or other computer-based startup business owners. However, the process→

Ed Herr of Herr Foods estimates that if they currently made potato chips the same way they did back in the 1940s, they’d cost→

In 1926, Thomas Edison sent a brief letter to one of his employees congratulating him on his ideas but warning him about the road→

Wine wasn’t always stored in glass bottles. Wine was originally stored in terracotta containers called amphorae. During the Roman Empire, glass bottles were invented→

Eleven years ago today I began the adventure that became the Business Opportunities Weblog. My father and I had a small business in Modesto,→

Don’t you wish your product has this kind of “history” (even if it is fictional): In early 1849, Joshua Shelby was working as a→

Samuel Morse may have come long before the invention of the Internet, but that didn’t stop him from trying to patent the basic idea→

A little piece of history has been placed up for auction recently. It is a letter from Alexander Graham Bell to his father, with→

You know what they say: “a penny saved is a penny earned,” especially if you can hang onto it for 219 years. In Orland→

Most people know Hedy as the beautiful actress who pushed the boundaries on what was allowed in early films. What most people do not→

Rocket Mail, 1931 Before “rocketmail” was the name of a short-lived free e-mail service in the late ’90s, it was an idea propounded by→

Inventing is a wonderful pastime, unless your invention also ends your life. Business Insider has pulled together a list of ten inventors and their→

What does an outboard motor and ice cream have in common? The Evinrude. Evinrude was the world’s first outboard motor, and it has a→