When someone goes on vacation with their family, chances are they don’t have the room to bring along the stroller and other big things that are needed once they’re at their destination. Rather than seeing it as a problem, Lisa Cook saw that as a business opportunity. Her baby equipment rental and baby registry consultant […]
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DailyPress: What pushed Priscilla Maddox was the relentless smell of vanilla. Maddox was toying with launching a cookie line after retiring from her 36-year hospital care job, but was overwhelmed by the vanilla smell in her apartment. When she couldn’t find a kitchen to rent, she started a rent-a-kitchen that has become a small-business incubator
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Metro News: It once put out fires in and around Ottawa, but now this vintage 1967 Fargo firetruck is starting them. Sort of. It’s making pizzas in a wood fire oven installed in its rear, after two Ottawa entrepreneurs turned a joke into an eccentric business idea. “My business partner Jason Paquette called me one
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Startup advertising firm Adzookie has latched on to a high-profile way to publicize itself: by turning homes into massive billboards. We’re looking for houses to paint. In fact, paint is an understatement. We’re looking for homes to turn into billboards. In exchange, we’ll pay your mortgage every month for as long as your house remains
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A new business in Japan let’s divorcing couples celebrate their change in a ceremony not unlike a wedding, except instead of publicly tying the knot, they cut it. After one of his friends was going through a painful divorce process, Hiroki Terai had come up with the idea of holding divorce ceremonies to help couples
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The Jetlev Flyer is a tethered water-powered jetpack. Unlike other jetpacks available today, flight times can be measured in hours and flights can be almost 200 miles in length because the Jetlev’s fuel supply and powerplant is in a floating mini-boat down on the water. The jetpack is teether to the boat by a long
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The founder of Domino’s Pizza knows delivery. One day, he asked himself, what’s more popular than pizza? Hamburgers, of course! Naples News: “We will franchise, but not immediately,†a confident Monaghan said. “This first store is a test. If there’s anyone who knows how to grow an organization it’s me.†He thinks the business could
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NY Post: A plan to put vending machines – selling energy drinks, snack bars, breath mints, gum and even pain relievers – inside yellow cabs won rave reviews yesterday at a city-sponsored contest for new business ideas. “New Yorkers demand convenience. They want to be as effective with their time as possible,” said Brian Shimmerlik,
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Bizopy: “Life can be much broader, much better, once you recognize one simple fact: life as you call it, was made up by people no smarter than you.” Watch this (likely never seen before) video here.
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Cassandra Daily: Journalist Melinda Wittstock, harnessing both crowdsourcing and gamification, hopes to create a flourishing source of citizen journalism with her new reporting platform NewsiT . Participants in Wittstock’s mobile, crowd-reporting experiment accept distinct tasks in order to contribute to evolving news items. They can opt to interview a source, capture an image, or check
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