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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Fast Company: They’re all getting two years of mentoring from a network of tech and entrepreneurial experts and $100,000 to start a business. The benefactor? PayPal founder, early Facebook investor, and Stanford’s least favorite alumnus, Peter Thiel. Least favorite because Thiel has been making waves by arguing that college is an overhyped, overpriced bubble, and
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A host of entrepreneurs have started young. People like Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, Larry Page, and Sergey Brin, all got started while in their 20’s. According to CNN Money, a new report by SV Angel’s Ron Conway and David Lee shows that their success is no coincidence. “I think younger entrepreneurs are more willing to
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Looking back, Helena Morrissey can pinpoint the worst moment she had as a woman working in London’s financial district. It was 20 years ago, and she was the only woman in a team of bond fund traders. She had just returned from maternity leave, and she was passed over for a promotion because her boss
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Fifteen years ago Erich Jonas created a game that has been met with an unusual amount of success. According to Daily Inter Lake.com, it all started when Jonas spun an egg-shaped rock on a bar table. From there is became the Egg Game. “We started bumping the table back and forth then we discovered we
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Have you been holding on to a unique idea that would revolutionize the way we communicate? If so, a new program called, “Invent with Nokia,” may be exactly what you are looking for. According to Nokia: Having a great idea is one thing, but having that idea turned into a reality is often much more
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At the TEDxTokyo conference, Dr. Yuichi Mori presented his newest creation: a futuristic agricultural system called Imec Mobiol Gel. The invention looks like a large sheet of plastic wrap that grass and other plants can grow on. Watch the video below. As someone who’s fingers are still stained form working in the garden all weekend,
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Every community faces the same dilemma: how do parents find quality babysitters? Katy Langhorst and Tara Harville-Fry have provided a solution within their own community. Their business is called SitterMixer. It has been less than eight months since their business has launched, and they’ve already received one award for their services, reports Hamilton-Wenham Patch. Sitter
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Seth Godin has drawn a marketing lesson from last weekend’s failed apocalypse: Every time, people succumb. They sell their belongings, stop paying into their kid’s college fund and create tension and despair. Here’s the simple lesson: Sell a story that some people want to believe. In fact, sell a story they already believe. The story
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Erica Diamond is a busy woman. She’s a mom, blogger, and speaker. Sometimes, the three roles combined can be a lot to handle. According to Global Saskatoon, her journey began in 1999. That is when she was 24 and started her own business. But then, in 2009, she was inspired to launch a blog, called
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