Used Books: A Great Business Opportunity
Used books don’t go away once they’ve been read once. They stick around for a long, long time and can make you lots of money.
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June 2014
Invention: Door Handle Cover
InventorSpot.com: Attention Helicopter Parents, your child could be at risk in the “safety†of their own home! The perpetrators: every single door of every single room… and maybe a few double doors in double rooms too. Wassamatta, can’t handle the truth? Can’t get a handle on the danger lurking in every entranceway? Can’t figure out
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Order Pizza from a Refrigerator Magnet
Mashable: Ever wish pizza could magically appear at the press of a button? A pizzeria in Dubai has unveiled a new refrigerator magnet that actually orders pizza in a single tap. Impulse eaters beware. Called the VIP Fridge Magnet, the pizza box-shaped magnet is connected to Red Tomato Pizza in Dubai. The magnet is preset
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A Man, His Truck and Costco
NY Times: It almost sounds too good to be true: Getting the savings of shopping at Costco, without the hassle of getting to the store. Yet Michael Eberstadt says he’s for real, and that’s just what he offers to Manhattanites on his Web site, MonsterSavings.com. Two weeks ago in his Your Money column, Ron Lieber
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Today in Entrepreneurial History: June 27
1895 – The inaugural run of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s Royal Blue from Washington, D.C., to New York, New York, the first U.S. passenger train to use electric locomotives. 1898 – The first solo circumnavigation of the globe is completed by Joshua Slocum from Briar Island, Nova Scotia. 1954 – The world’s first nuclear
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A Tongue Cleaner into Wal-Mart, Via YouTube
Can a YouTube video get your business into Wal-Mart? If it goes viral, it just might. The NY Times has more: On Tuesday, Provo, Utah-based Orabrush Inc. announced its flagship product – a tongue cleaner – would be carried in 3,500 of Wal-Mart Inc.’s 3,800 U.S. stores thanks to a social-media campaign launched two years
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How to avoid ‘Cowboy Builders’
Most people, at one point in their lives will be in need of a builder, whether it’s to build a structure or fit floor tiles. When you pay for a service, you expect it to be finished to perfection, but in some cases this doesn’t happen. Unfortunately, there are some very untrustworthy people out there
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Test The Market With Your Business Ideas
Lynn News: Budding Richard Bransons will be able to try out their business ideas for free by setting up a market stall. West Norfolk Council is giving entrepreneurs a chance to see if their money-making ideas would work by running a market stall. Up to 12 new traders are being invited to set up shop
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Niche Biz: Pole Fitness Classes
EgyptIndependent.com: With years of pop culture imagery and sex industry stereotypes firmly imprinted on our brains, it might be difficult to convince people that pole dancing is now officially recognized as a form of exercise. The activity even has its own accredited organization, the International Pole Dance Fitness Association. Historically, the sport can be traced
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