Walyou: Ad agency DDB teamed up with Mexican Internet Portal Terra in an attempt to clean up the parks of Mexico City from dog droppings and other foul odored objects and materials by rewarding those who make an effort to clean up after their pets. Pet owners pick up the mess their dogs left and […]
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Forbes: Business development guru Petra Vorsteher co-founded mobile advertising startup Smaato. Prior to Smaato, she was a founding member of Intershop, helping grow the company to a publicly listed company with a market cap of $12B. Follow her startup on Twitter at @smaato.
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RedOrbit: Family man Richard Schulte has donned the hat of Web entrepreneur to unveil http://www.DayGloEnter.com, a family-friendly Internet storefront that offers deals on indoor and outdoor equipment, as well as electronics and live entertainment. “I’m the proud dad of six adopted children, so I understand the needs of busy families,†said Schulte. “As a family,
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LubbockOnline.com: Zach Taylor, 15, takes a different approach with XYZ Landscaping, his lawn care business. Many Lubbock teenagers make extra money in the summer by doing yard care, but not many of them let the customers have a say in what the fee will be. Taylor started XYZ four years ago — the letters stand
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The Monitor: According to McPherson, branding yourself means making yourself visible and communicating via all avenues your personal value and what you stand for with total clarity and consistency.She said it is especially important to highlight your uniqueness in some easy to remember way, so people will think of you and what you do in
What separates the world’s extraordinary entrepreneurs from the millions more whose efforts fail to achieve a breakthrough? The most important distinction is whether they have access to the proven entrepreneurial framework that the top performers use to build value and achieve their goals. Without this kind of structure and guidance, even the brightest, most tenacious
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“You can’t build a truly great app unless you iterate like crazy,” said Naomi Kokubo, “And there’s no better way than to code it yourself.” A year ago, Naomi, a mother of two, had ample business experience but no coding background. Instead of hiring an engineer like she’d done in the past, she decided to
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New Scientist: Lorna and her classmates, who range in age from 4 to 7, are taking part in a pilot study here at Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, to see how young children respond to ScratchJr, a spin-off of the Scratch programming language. Scratch was invented to teach students as young as 8 how to
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Next up, in my series of interviews with Walmart’s Get on the Shelf contestants is Jeff Rudd of ZipKord. What product did you submit to Walmart’s Get on the Shelf contest? 226usb – Retractable Car/Wall Charger for iPhone / Micro phones Where’d the idea come from? The retractable concept started with our Handsfree product –
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In my continuing coverage of Walmart’s Get on the Shelf contest, I’ve just had the pleasure of talk to Bill Herrick, President of Mr. Sleboggan. What product did you submit to Walmart’s Get on the Shelf contest? Sleboggan. Where’d the idea come from? During Christmas 2009 my son, daughter-in-law, and one-and-a-half year-old grandson visited us
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