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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Slate: A faded starlet dancing at an oligarch’s birthday bash. A chef preparing a dinner party in a stranger’s kitchen. A best-selling author entertaining a conference hall filled with oil executives. Reputation has always been another form of income, and successful people have long found innumerable creative ways to monetize their time. Now a start-up
People love their pets, making the pet industry a million dollar business. That why a business like Playground Pups fits so well in New York City. Gail Nord was determined to launch a business in an industry she was passionate about. Without the help of the government or bank loans, she went out and started
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When the ground begins to shake, George Dickson gets the call. It was from Japan this week. As the CEO of Seismic Warning Systems, he is in a unique position. Whenever a big quake hits, his company is thrust into the spotlight, reports The Christian Science Monitor. The QuakeGuard system on which SWS was founded
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The Wall Street Journal has up an article with a great story about some really bad investment ideas out there. Here’s a funny one: Several years ago, a client of Stewart McLauchlan said he had an “opportunity to purchase some ostrich eggs at below the current market,” Mr. McLauchlan says. Red flags went up for
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Forbes: I was at the TechCrunch Disrupt conference looking for the wackiest, nonsensical start-up with an idea so wild that your jaw drops. A company so bad that, well, it may even be good. I give you Talk O’Clock. The “social alarm clock” with the tagline: “Let a stranger wake you up.” Instead of using
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Greenville News: Susanne LaFaye went into special education because she wanted to help kids in a different way than she could in a regular classroom setting. At Travelers Rest High School, LaFaye has found her niche. LaFaye, named this year’s Teacher of the Year at Travelers Rest High, is a resource teacher who works with
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Royal Purple News: In 2010, Nicole Kringer and Erin Manders founded KnotaGeek LLC, a small web-based business that specializes in producing handmade accessories. The co-founders pursued this venture with no business background and make every piece of merchandise themselves. Lack of experience led to difficult beginnings for KnotaGeek, but through trial and error Kringer and
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The NY Times has a report on $230,000 guard dogs for moguls and celebrities. For that kind of money, does she fetch your slippers and mix your drinks? Don’t call her a guard dog. Buffy, a black German shepherd, and Deanna Louvier, a trainer, working out at Harrison K-9 Security Services in Aiken, S.C. When
Mashable: Naked Wines is an online retailer for wine. Visitors to the website can buy one or more bottles of wine or a monthly subscription. The $40 monthly subscription fee goes directly to new winemakers, and the customer receives a $40 credit for wine. Customers buying wine are essentially becoming wine angel investors. The store
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