Sentinel-Standard: Jim Patrick of Winn rejects the label “contraption†to describe the Do Nothing Machine put in his care by his older brothers. This conglomeration that greets Ionia Free Fair spectators entering the Floral Building is made up of parts from farm equipment, car motors, a child’s toy box and whatever else brothers Roy, Evan, […]
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Newport Beach Independent Newspaper: A Newport Beach woman will see her dreams come to fruition on the small screen this week as she debuts her invention on the Home Shopping Network. Marcy McKenna will be selling her creation, The Style & Go Hair Care Valet, live on HSN tomorrow, Friday and Saturday. “I’m super excited,â€
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CNN: Ravi Ratan purchased the domain name Cufflinks.com as an offshoot of his family’s third-generation menswear company and with plans to eventually start a business. Even before the site was developed, Ratan immediately started receiving e-mails from people looking for cufflinks online. To capitalize on the interest, he took photos of the inventory in one
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You can’t get a seat at a new restaurant in Sacramento, California unless you have roots and live in a pot. The Photosynthetic Restaurant serves filtered sunlight in various combinations to to plants. Wired has the story: “My recipes are all based on the scientific study of plant physiology, applied to the fine art of
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MLM Blog: When carpenter and sawmill operator James W. Marshall discovered gold at Sutter’s Mill in Coloma, California on January 24th 1848, he set into motion a series of events that would change the economy of that state forever. Almost overnight, 300,000 people descended upon California from the rest of the United States and beyond in
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I just read an article about how a Delaware man and his family have opened a restaurant to sell “Tornado Fries” in their resort community. I’ve never heard of the food, so I did some research. According the article, tornado fries are deep-fried potatoes-on-a-stick that were featured on the Food Network series “Unwrapped.” I found
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News-Leader: Do you need a liquor license to sell booze-laced cake? That’s one of the questions local entrepreneur Frankie Murphy is wrestling with as she prepares to launch her new business Tipsy Bakery. Murphy, 24, said she got the idea, ironically, from her mother. “On my 21st birthday my mom made me a Jello-shot cake,”
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In 1990, former English teacher, Max Hardberger, started his own marine consultancy business in Louisiana. He was periodically retained by shipowners to extract their vessels from lawless ports without a clearance from local authorities. In 1998, following his admission to the California Bar, Hardberger began to practice maritime law alongside his marine consultancy and vessel
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Channel NewsAsia: Restaurants [in Singapore] may be doing brisk business, but that has created a headache for some bosses. That’s because they are finding it hard to hire people to clean their dishes! Well, one company has turned this into a business opportunity. Synnovate Solutions collects crates of dirty plates from restaurants across Singapore. The
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Hernando Today: While many small business ideas are crafted from passionate hobbies, the back story behind Gia’s Cakes & Goodies runs even deeper. After spending 14 years in the law industry, Samantha Long was looking for a career change. She was also dealing with the loss of her father to cancer. “I wanted to do
