A recent prison inmate from Georgia has turned his time in the slammer into an entrepreneurial education. His new business: making women’s purses from newspapers. I’m not joking. Vincent joined them a few years later. He worked for Diamond Plastics in Macon and on the chassis line at Blue Bird in Fort Valley until he […]
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According to Fast Company, Walmart generates a lot of recyclable waste. So instead of sending it all to recycling plants, the retail giant has decided to divert some of it to Worldwise, a sustainable pet products company. Worldwise will take Walmart’s waste for free –including bottles, hangers, bags, and corrugated cardboard– and convert it into
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Most entrepreneurs try to think outside the box. Charles Sidi did the exact opposite when he created his business, BizBox, reports AZCentral.com. [The BizBox is] a mobile, solar building with glass walls, display panels and a wraparound deck that can be set up in about 20 minutes. The steel-frame units can be used as portable
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Anybody who works at a desk for the majority of their day has likely experienced some sort of negative side effect. From wrist and elbow pain to weight gain, the adoption of a sedentary lifestyle during our work hours can take a toll, even for people that exercise religiously in their off hours. Stand-up desks
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This weekend, October 12-14, the 2012 West Coast Franchise Show and its 180 exhibitors will descend on the Anaheim Convention Center in Anaheim, California. The show runs from 11 AM to 5 PM Friday and Saturday and until 4 PM on Sunday. The convention center is located at 800 West Katella Avenue, Anaheim, CA.
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1871 – The Great Chicago Fire: Chicago burns after a barn accident. The fire lasts from October 8 to October 10. 1964 – The opening ceremony of the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, is broadcast live in the first Olympic telecast relayed by geostationary communication satellite. 1971 – Sold, dismantled and moved to the
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On this day in 1900, American inventor, Joseph Friedman, was born. His most successful invention: the flexible drinking straw. While sitting in his younger brother Albert’s fountain parlor, the Varsity Sweet Shop in San Francisco, Friedman observed his young daughter Judith at the counter, struggling to drink out of a straight straw. He took a
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Los Angeles Times: For Marlene Baroli-Turati, life has become an obsession with sugar and fruit. After working two decades as a project manager for Boeing Co., she was laid off during a round of recession-fueled cutbacks in 2008. “I had always made jams and jellies as gifts,” said Baroli-Turati, 44, who lives in Lake Forest
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It’s been almost two decades since mainstream users began trekking into the library-slash-playground known as the World Wide Web. Now, several years into that excursion, many are taking a long hard look at the trail they’ve left behind. The San Francisco Chronicle asked is it even possible to exit the Internet? The short answer is
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It is a given fact to expect that there is a perfect business opportunity. Such an opportunity may not exist but these days there are a lot of good ones to select from. In order to find that opportunity that best fits your preferences; it is good to start with looking at the type of
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