March 2014

The Pumpkin Plan: A Simple Strategy to Grow a Remarkable Business in Any Field

Books, Featured

Each year Americans start one million new businesses, nearly 80 percent of which fail within the first five years. Under such pressure to stay alive-let alone grow-it’s easy for entrepreneurs to get caught up in a never-ending cycle of “sell it-do it, sell it-do it” that leaves them exhausted, frustrated, and unable to get ahead […]

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Niche Biz: Doggy Beer

Featured

GMA: What’s the legal drinking age in dog years? That’s what you might be asking yourself if you come across a bottle of Bowser Beer, a new brew crafted for a canine clientele. But you need not worry: this dog-friendly beer is non-alcoholic. Eschewing hops, which are toxic to dogs, Bowser Beer is a non-carbonated

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A Fireman and an Inventor

Profiles

Have you ever met a Fire Captain, disaster preparedness officer, small business owner, and inventor all in one? Meet Christopher Cooper, who at four years old wanted to be two things when he grew up… a fireman and an inventor. Through his hard work and determination Christopher joined the Los Angeles Fire Department and climbed

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Red Thread Thinking: Weaving Together Connections for Brilliant Ideas and Profitable Innovation

Books

Success is all about connections. Debra Kaye explodes conventional thinking about innovation and provides an approach that anyone or any business can use to expose the crucial links among observations, experiences, facts, and feelings that on the surface do not seem related—but are—to uncover fresh, brilliant insights. In Red Thread Thinking, Kaye shows you how

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Open Source Soda

Inventions

OpenCola is a brand of open source cola, where the instructions for making it are freely available and modifiable. Anybody can make the drink, and anyone can modify and improve on the recipe as long as they, too, license their recipe under the GNU General Public License. Since recipes are, by themselves, not copyrightable, the

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Board Game Cafe

Ideas

It’s not uncommon to see board games on display at restaurants and cafés, but they’re typically used to prop up laptops at least as often as to provide hands-on entertainment. According to trendspotter Springwise, Toronto’s Snakes & Lattes serves up not just coffee but also 1,500 board games available for the playing. Billed as “the

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Dental Niche: Vampire Teeth

Ideas

Inventor Spot: The latest cosmetic dentistry trend out of Japan is “Yaeba”: Vampire Teeth. Dental Salon Plaisir, located in Tokyo’s upscale Ginza district, specializes in this cosmetic procedure that lengthens, sharpens and enhances one’s canines to fang-tastic proportions. Dr. Yoko Kashiyama and her staff offer Vampire Teeth as just one of their many diagnostic, hygienic

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