Stltoday: It’s an economic issue, and a pair of recent studies make clear just how important immigrants’ role is in creating new businesses in this country. The Partnership for a New American Economy calculates that immigrant business owners employ one in 10 U.S. private-sector workers, and notes that they started more businesses in recent years, […]
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1493 – Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico). 1916 – Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures. 1959 – The Ford Motor Company announces the discontinuation of the unpopular Edsel. If Puerto Rico becomes a state, November
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An Icelandic entrepreneur says his company may have a novel solution to the world’s water shortages: Transport the North Atlantic island’s abundant supplies in supertankers to where they’re needed. Aqua Omnis ehf, a Reykjavik-based company, plans to ship water from aquifers beneath Iceland to sell to drier lands as well as in Europe, Managing Director
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If you haven’t noticed, gas prices are pretty high, and since my family lives about 60 miles from most retail stores we do most of our shopping online. One of the biggest determinants of whether we’ll buy a particular product online is we can get free shipping. It turns out we’re not alone: According to
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This looks interesting: StartupToDo.com is a productivity application for startup founders, developers who want to fire their managers and microISVs who want to build successful software companies. Here you’ll find specific Guides to many of the hundreds of projects you need to do to build your company. Every Guide is written by, rated by, and
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Chicago-based Life Tokens, lets consumers express their emotions via coded tokens that are sent anonymously through the mail, and that link to personal online messages, reports trendspotter Springwise. Each token features a graphic on the front that encapsulates a specific emotion, and a 6-digit code on the back that, when entered by the recipient on
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Long before the internet, The Boston Globe had a free, real-time, ad-supported product: headlines written on chalkboards inside the windows of their storefront on Boston’s Newspaper Row. From at least the turn of the century until the 1950s, Globe staff shuttled back and forth throughout the day from the newsroom to the street. There they
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“That would never work in the real world.” You hear it all the time when you tell people about a fresh idea. This real world sounds like an awfully depressing place to live. It’s a place where new ideas, unfamiliar approaches, and foreign concepts always lose. The only things that win are what people already
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Does this happen to you: does your pet’s empty food disk call out to you? Ever time you walk past it do you feel an overwhelming need to refill it? If so, you’re not alone. Here’s the truth: most people overfeed their pets. What if there was some way to stop that? And, what if
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The New York Daily News asks, what’s in a name? Maybe more than you thought. A British translation firm will vet expectant couples’ off-the-wall baby names, ensuring their offspring aren’t saddled with monikers that mean something embarrassing in another language. Today Translation’s new service might have come in handy for Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes,
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