Ideas

‎Apprentice Loser Secures Funding For Food Shopping Website

PCR-online.biz: After being turned down by Lord Sugar, Nick Holzherr has secured funding for his food website and app idea. In the Apprentice final, Lord Sugar told the technology entrepreneur that the website would not be useful, saying: “Who could be bothered with it?” Holzherr has now proved Lord Sugar wrong by successfully securing £170,000 […]

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A New Domain Gold Rush

Business Week: A new initiative dubbed the “New Generic Top-Level Domains” and organized by ICANN-the nonprofit that has managed Internet names and addresses since 1998-could add more than 1,000 extensions to the roughly two dozen familiar extensions in use now. New extensions are likely to be established in myriad categories: industry terms such as .bank

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Happy Geek Pride Day

It’s too late this year, but May 25th is Geek Pride Day. Maybe you can profit from it next year. T-shirts always do well with geeks, as evidenced by the fact that my wife buys me sloganed tees from ThinkGeek every year for my birthday. I’m sure it’s just a coincidence that our own Angela

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Don’t Compete: Create!

A reader sent in this interesting article from the NY Times about competition and innovation yesterday. He said it might be “a bit heady.” You’ve been warned. My favorite paragraph: One of his core points is that we tend to confuse capitalism with competition. We tend to think that whoever competes best comes out ahead.

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A Health Spa for Toddlers?

DailyMail: Worries about money, jobs and the recession have become a part of everyday life for many of us. But the strain has become too much to bear for youngsters in Germany, resulting in the first kindergarten for stressed-out under-fives. Toddlers as young as three chill out with massages, foot baths and by walking through

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