The WSJ has up a great article describing the current state of affairs in the quest for the world’s hottest pepper: The undisputed king of the hot sauce world though is Blair Lazar, a New Jersey entrepreneur who achieved a Guinness record of 16 million Scovilles—the scientific maximum. He required customers to sign a waiver […]
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He wrote a computer program to automatically generate slogan t-shirts for sale and then to print them on demand. Overnight his catalog of available shirts went from 1,000 to over 10 million. Best of all, he only had to make the shirt after a customer ordered it, so there was no inventory. “He gathered 700
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A new business in Dubai, which could work just as well in the States or anywhere else, provides roadside car battery replacement to stranded motorists: Any driver who experiences car battery problems — whether at home, in the workplace or on the road — can call the company for immediate assistance, to have a new
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Take a look around your home or office, and think about all of the products that you can see. If you look at where they are made, you will most likely come across a myriad of different countries where these things are produced. So how do these things get here for us to buy? Well,
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Zambia is gifted with extensive mineral resources. Zambia is renowned as top ten improved economical location around the world for doing business. There is vast number of business to be performed in the Zambia including small, medium and large business. In order to increase the economic status of the country, the government of the Zambia
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The World Adult Kickball Association (WAKA) recently began franchising in the United States. The program will leverage the organization’s 13 years of success bringing fun and happiness to hundreds of thousands of kickball players across the country and will offer one of the most exciting, affordable, high “fun†franchises in the marketplace. How WAKA Kickball
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A new business in Warsaw, Indiana is helping to clean up downed trees after recent storms. Indiana Urban Lumber, run by woodworker Bill Burr, mills wood. None of their wood comes from the forest though. Instead, when a tree needs to be taken down from someone’s yard, or in a city park, or outside a
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photo credit: Jesse Wagstaff Want to get into the solar business but don’t know anything about electricty? No problem, says the NY Times, neither do these guys: Technology advances and falling prices for solar technology have opened the gates for solar installations by businesses with no background in electricity generation. Energy generation “is not our
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The National Association of Home Builders, who’s goal is to get everyone to buy a new home, has released a study in which it found that “homes built before 1960 have average maintenance costs of $564 a year, while a home built after 2008 averages $241.” Kind of obvious, if you ask me. But there’s
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1792 – The Coinage Act is passed establishing the United States Mint. 1902 – “Electric Theatre”, the first full-time movie theater in the United States, opens in Los Angeles, California. 1912 – The ill fated RMS Titanic begins sea trials. 1956 – As the World Turns and The Edge of Night premiere on CBS-TV. The
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