Remember peak oil? Someone forgot to tell North Dakota and Texas. After producing a relatively inconsequential share of the nation’s crude oil for many years (fewer than 100,000 barrels per day and only 1.5% of total domestic output), North Dakota’s oil production took off about five years ago when advanced drilling techniques including hydraulic fracturing […]
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The Economist: Overhauling an industry of which you know little is not easy, but neither is it impossible. In 1956 Malcolm McLean, a trucker from North Carolina, launched the first “intermodal†shipping container, which could be transferred easily between lorries, trains and ships. It revolutionised the transport of goods by abolishing the traditional (and back-breaking)
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At companies like Valve and Github, gone are the managers who boss people around and expect servile compliance. In their place is a flat organizational structure where individuals manage themselves and each other to build awesome things through peer management. These are companies without bosses. Read the rest at Business Insider.
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Central Valley Business Times: Here’s a chance for your own really cool business: installing tire chains on frozen mountain roads this winter in California! Those interested in becoming official chain installers on California state highways in the Sierra Nevada are being sought by the California Department of Transportation. These are the folks that are more
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Westworld: When adults think about starting a business, they worry about loans and other terrifying prospects that often stop them from following their dreams. But young entrepreneur Lyla Padden only considered positive outcomes when she started her cupcake business, Flour Gal, at the age of ten. Maybe that’s why she has been so successful, and
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There’s always a better way to do something, even if that something is steeped in tradition and lore. Yesterday, winemakers stomped on grapes in their bare feet. Today, thanks to Rudy Zuidema, they can blow them up. Napa Valley Register has more: His new business, Flash Wine Technologies, offers a cutting-edge method of extracting color
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Rather than thinking of themselves as builders or architects of a business, entrepreneurs should think of themselves as prospectors. Prospectors have one fundamental goal – to find gold! Prospectors have a general notion where gold might be, but they know it is going to take some digging to find it. They may think a certain
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1864 – Helena, Montana is founded after four prospectors discover gold at “Last Chance Gulch”. 1894 – Domenico Melegatti obtains a patent for a procedure to be applied in producing pandoro industrially. 1925 – John Logie Baird creates Britain’s first television transmitter. 1960 – Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United
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If you took the time to write down every thought that bubbled up in your head, how long would the list be by the end of the day? Stepping out of the bounds of a traditional social network, SodaHead.com is asking everyone a very important question, “What’s Bubbling in your head?” As the brainchild of
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‎Nanaimo Daily News: A new business opened this week on the increasingly bustling Bowen Road corridor. But this business is a little different from the ones surrounding it in the Bowen Centre complex. Mary Froom, 5, opened Mary’s Market on Wednesday outside of her mom’s shop, Kit N Caboodle Quality Children’s Consignment. It’s just a
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