Dave Vogt was born without his left hand. From birth, he began wearing a hook in its place. What was a part of life for Dave soon inspired Mark Stark. Mark went to work in his home and put together a prosthetic hand his friend could use for the tasks where a hook would fall […]
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NY Times: The wheels of justice tend to be slow, but arrests can happen with lightning speed — and what happens next can be crucial. In searches, seizure and interrogation, things can go badly wrong. Enlarge This Image Chris Miles helped found LawyerUp, an Easton, Conn., company that promises to get people in trouble a
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Medical technology is always changing, and we can thank people like Dr. Kim Manwaring. He has invented the Ferromagnetic Wand. It a type of scalpel that cauterizes while cutting, minimizing the amount of blood loss that occurs during surgery. Unlike current electrosurgical tools, the wand uses a paper clip-like tip coated with a special alloy
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The video below is from Patrick McKenzie’s talk at the Business of Software 2010. The slides from his presentation are available here.
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On a trip to Las Vegas for his 30th birthday, one of Gavin Cooper’s friends had the hotel deliver a bottle of champagne to his room. With this surprise bottle of bubbly consumed, a business idea popped into his head: What if you could send a bottle of champagne to anyone, anywhere? When he got
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If you’re Las Vegas, and you have thousands of underused hotel/condo rooms because of the economic downturn, what do you do with them? If you’re Candace Bailey of Luxury Suites International, you profit. Her company serves condo owners looking to save their investments and hotels needing cash flow on empty rooms by providing a hybrid
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While it might look like all you need is an office a telephone and a set of wheels, in reality it is much more complicated than that. Lots of courier businesses are set up each year, but many fail to make this realization and fail because they haven’t done enough groundwork. Do You Need to
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