Here’s update to my posts about robot cars Govt Regulation Roadblocks Driverless Car and Self-Driving Cars Coming to Nevada: The State of Nevada just passed Assembly Bill No. 511 which, among other things, authorizes the Department of Transportation to develop rules and regulations governing the use of driverless cars, such as Google’s concept car, on […]
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Tecca: [Jack Eisenmann] built an 8-bit computer out of microchips, a plastic Tupperware case, and tons of wires. Eisenmann’s computer, which he is calling the DUO Adept, runs a small operating system he coded himself. … He made it so he can play the classic game Pong, as well as a side-scrolling adventure game he
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Direct selling can seem like a dirty word to a business that is afraid to reach out for their customers. However, sometimes that is exactly what you must do. The Globe And Mail recently considered a dillemma that The Network Hub had to face when it decided it wanted to expand. Are you afraid to
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Kent’s Soda: Nine year old Kent ran a typical lemonade stand in the summer of 2010. He had fun and earned enough to buy some things he had really wanted. At the end of the summer he said, “Dad, I made a lot of money this summer. I got everything I wanted.” Kent then asked
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StartUpYours.com describes itself as “The only family-friendly business startup course & grant program made especially for freedom-seeking parents & their awesome kids.” It’s a new program that’s coming online but the idea is interesting. What they teach: You dream of a family-centered life, but you also have to support your family. Which is why it’s
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The Wall Street Journal: Somewhere in Dallas, there’s a woman driving around in a $1,000-a-month Lexus selling J. Hilburn dress shirts. She’s one of more than 1,000 commission-based “style advisors,†J. Hilburn LLC’s traveling band of fabric swatch carrying, collar-and-cuff experts that are expected to push the company’s revenue to around $25 million this year.
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We have seen many one-hit wonder products in our time. For example, the pet rock or the Rubik’s cube are a milestone in invention history. The Wall Street Journal recently looked at another one-hit inventor, Dave Kapell, and his product, Magnetic Poetry. Back in 1993, the Minneapolis native was an aspiring musician who liked to
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Health care in this country is going to go one of two ways: Way number one involves government control and long waits for service. The second way looks a lot more like the “good-old-days”: Dr. Susan Rutten Wasson sits on the corner of a bed in the cramped bedroom of Alice Johnson, a 91-year-old Osakis
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Business Insider: Some 77 percent of small business owners in the Small Business Happiness Index by Vista Prints are either “very†or “extremely†happy about running a business and working for themselves. (The survey focused on 900 U.S. microbusinesses with one to 10 employees and less than $100,000 in annual revenues–primarily home-based businesses.) Are you
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So you have survived the recession, but can you survive another wave? Portfolio looks at the possibility that the rise in the economy is short lived, and we may fall back into a second recession before completely recovering from the first. How can you know whether what’s coming is a wave or a dip? Thiruvadanthai
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