Infographic: What Drives Would-Be Entrepreneurs?
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June 2014
How One Garage Inventor Brought Us Into The Digital Age
Arizona Daily Star: Tom Brown and his partner, Page Burr, really did start their company in Brown’s 600-square-foot garage in 1956. It grew into a high-tech electronics firm that employed 1,200 people and sold its products worldwide. In August 2000, it was bought by Texas Instruments for stock valued at $7.6 billion. Brown and his
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New Bankruptcy Data Is A Gold Mine For Small-Business Stories
Reynolds Center: The credit rating agency Equifax is out with a report on small-business bankruptcies nationwide; it’s a good opportunity to take a look at some of the stories behind business insolvencies in your market. According to the Equifax analysis, 36 percent fewer small businesses filed for protection in the first quarter of 2012 compared
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New Invention For Teething Babies
ITV News: Parents everywhere know how frustrating it is when your baby keeps picking up toys or anything else it can get its hands on, and puts them in its mouth. Well, a mum from Cornwall has invented a new kind of teething toy which could be about to appear on High Streets everywhere. They
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Artist Transitions Into Auto Repair
It’s not every day artists decide to go into auto repair, but that is what makes Donna Curtin’s story so unique. She always had an interest in cars. Unfortunately, the gender divide kept her from doing anything with her dream. She went on to graduate from Binghamton and Harvard University in the fields of art,
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Store Finds Its Niche By Marketing ‘DUI Scooters’
New to the scooter business, Doug Vitello and Gary Parr worked hard to meet their customers’ needs. But there was one type of customer they couldn’t serve, according to a story in The St. Petersburg Times. Again and again, they kept hearing: I got a DUI. I lost my license. Do you have something I
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Niche Products: The Kavanjo
Taylor Swift was recently strumming one during a show at EnergySolutions Arena. It is the Kavanjo, a banjo that uses electronic pickups to help the sound carry above the drums and guitar, reports The Salt Lake Tribune. Kavanaugh devised a way to add electronic “pickups” — similar to the magnets in an electric guitar, which
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Soon You’ll Be Able to Swap Digitial Goods
How much are used ebooks worth? The NY Times predicts that soon the price will approach a penny, just as soon as Amazon sets up a way to buy and sell used digital products: In late January, Amazon received a patent to set up an exchange for all sorts of digital material. The retailer would
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Biz Idea: Johnny Cupcakes
BusinessWeek: In 2001, Johnny Earle dropped out of music college after just two weeks. On a lark, he made a T-shirt with an image of a cupcake atop a pair of cross bones. The trenchantly iconic design got noticed and people started asking to buy his tees. Earle began selling them out of the trunk
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Doctor Turned Entrepreneur
Deseret News: As an orthopedic and spinal surgeon in training in 2004, Dr. Alpesh Patel knew there had to be a better way to detect when a surgeon accidentally nicks an esophagus or a bowel with a scalpel. It is estimated that about 10,000 nicks and leaks happen in the United States each year. Patel
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