Every business owner needs ways to unwind. Running a business is a fast-paced, relentless lifestyle to have chosen, after all. Is sports your thing? Do you have a favorite sport you like to play? A favorite team you love to watch on television or at the stadium? All of the above? In this post, we take a brief look at how the business of sports continues to evolve.
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America has an interesting relationship with betting and other gambling. Placing bets and playing games of chance is perfectly legal in some states. However, in others it’s effectively outlawed. To understand the current state of play when it comes to the business of betting in America, it’s important to look to the past. Here’s an overview of how attitudes toward and acceptance of gambling have changed over time.
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The slogan “The Greatest Thing Since Sliced Bread” makes almost no sense to us. But have you ever tried to consistently slice bread? It’s hard.
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Business strategy never meant much to the Grateful Dead, students of folk music, psychedelia and utopian counterculture, and yet the band was an the earliest Silicon Valley startup.
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2 On this day in 1958, the Smurfs, a fictional race of blue dwarves, later popularized in a Hanna-Barbera animated cartoon series), appear for the first time in the story “The Flute with Six Holes.”
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They crushed their fear, made their dreams happen and lived without regret.
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1860 – Telegraph line between Los Angeles and San Francisco opens. 1921 – KDKA in Pittsburgh’s Forbes Field conducts the first live broadcast of a football game. For more on the history of the telegraph read: The Telegraph: A History of Morse’s Invention and Its Predecessors in the United States. The genesis of Morse’s invention
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1889 – In Colorado, Nicholas Creede strikes it rich in silver during the last great silver boom of the American Old West. 1925 – John Logie Baird performs the first test of a working television system. John Logie Baird FRSE (13 August 1888 – 14 June 1946) was a Scottish engineer and inventor of the
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Holland Sentinal: “The highway centerline has been called the single most important traffic safety device in the history of automobile transportation, and Edward Hines originated it right here in Michigan, ”State Transportation Director Kirk T. Steudle said when accepting the award on behalf of the Hines family and the state. Widely recognized as one of
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1843 – The News of the World tabloid begins publication in London. 1847 – German inventor and industrialist Werner von Siemens founds Siemens AG & Halske. 1854 – The watch company founded in 1850 in Roxbury by Aaron Lufkin Dennison relocates to Waltham, Massachusetts, to become the Waltham Watch Company, a pioneer in the American
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