Born in Maine in 1838 and raised by a widowed mother, Margaret Knight showed a proclivity toward inventing from a very young age — a characteristic of many of the world’s famous inventors. After observing an accident at a textile mill at the age of 12, Margaret went to work producing her first real invention. […]
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Entrepreneur.com: This is a great seasonal business that specializes in providing the labor for holiday decorations. Once a year an opportunity to make excellent extra money arrives–installing and then later removing decorative outdoor Christmas lights for people who just don’t have the time or the energy to do it for themselves. Start looking for customers
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Untold numbers of entrepreneurs are selling everything from customized yoga mats to homemade food. One of them is Marti Wymer, founder of Spoonful of Comfort, a Bradenton, Fla., company that delivers chicken noodle soup, dinner rolls and chewy oatmeal raisin cookies, made fresh daily. A 64-ounce jar of soup is $32; sides are $6. Your
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Autopia: “We kind of got into an interesting discussion on why we have a fixation on rail-based transit,†McDaniel told Wired. “Jared used to work at ski resorts up in Colorado. He said, ‘Well, you could just use ski lifts.’†Suddenly, a side project was born. “It’s grown beyond that once people started crunching the
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NicheGeek: 1. Million Dollar Homepage 1000000 pixels, charge a dollar per pixel — that’s perhaps the dumbest idea for online business anyone could have possible come up with. Still, Alex Tew, a 21-year-old who came up with the idea, is now a millionaire. 2. SantaMail Ok, how’s that for a brilliant idea. Get a postal
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Yorktown Patch: Chemotherapy, radiation and cancer medications save peoples’ lives, but take a toll on their bodies. Today, Kerry Kourie, who lives in Garrison, knows cancer treatment affects people psychologically and physically and wants to do her part to help ease the pain. She aims to address one side effect of these life saving treatments
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This is the most niche cleaning business I’ve seen all week! Melone had a brainstorm. “I used to clean houses while I was in college, and my brain started ticking – why not start a cleaning business, by moms for moms,†said Melone. “A business where you could take your babies with you while helping
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Think of Lydon Baty as the modern version of the bubble boy. Although his body is usually safely at home, to guard against germs his bodies can’t handle, his mind isn’t trapped there. It travels around by robot. Not literally. We’re not there yet. But Lydon has a robot surrogate who goes to school for
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As our parents and grandparents get older, wouldn’t it be nice to have a way to unobtrusively monitor whether or not they’re eating, taking their medications or getting out of the house? A new product, that will be shipping in July, makes it easy to just that. Called Lively, it’s an elegant device that uses
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When you think of entrepreneurship in prison, you probably think trading cigarettes for pinups or jello for protection money. A new program called The Last Mile hopes to change that. The Last Mile hopes that through entrepreneurship, it can prepare convicts for employment and reduce recidivism. Considering these founders have never used the Internet or
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