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Inventing For Over 50 Years

Gordon Boswell has a gift for turning out brilliant ideas. These ideas have kept him working at Masport for 56 years, and he’s still going strong reports NZHerald.co.nz. At 83, he has twice been called out of retirement to lend his brain to developing new and improved products. Most days, he is at the company’s […]

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Battling Big Business

Michael Powell faced a fear many low budget inventors encounter, and he won. In this case, he tackled Home Depots theft of his invention, and he won a generous settlement. It’s been seven years since he showed Home Depot officials a saw guard he invented that allowed it to continue to cut lumber for its

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The Dog Who Breathed A New Biz

The New York Times: Who would have thought that a middle-age couple who held government jobs and were a tad unsure what an entrepreneur was would make a small fortune from their beloved dog’s bad breath? Joe and Judy Roetheli (pronounced RATE-lee) of Kansas City, Mo., founders of S&M NuTec, maker of Greenies dog treats,

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Niche Drink: Bubble Tea

If you’re anything like me, you are probably unfamiliar with bubble tea. Most people think of little tea pots or tea bags when they think of the tea people drink. However, in the 80s the project manager for the Chun Shui Tang tea house, Ms. Lin Hsiu Hui, had a unique idea. She was in

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Niche: Suits For Short Men

First there was the big and tall, now there are options for the height challenged. Jimmy Au may have started out as an accidental entrepreneur, but now he provides suits to some of the biggest names in Hollywood. “My professor was my first customer, and I made $400 with 40 orders, so I told myself

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