Just as Don Quixote’s passion kept him from seeing that he was attacking windmills, your own passion can cloud your judgment. The Christian Science Monitor considers the good and the bad that comes with a passionate business idea, and why you should not let your passion stop you form looking at the whole truth. For […]
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Two BYU students created a webservice called DivvyThat.com to split utility bills between roomates. Universe has more: Dusty Hulet was explaining to a professor the business idea of electronically splitting utility costs between roommates when a student approached him; he said his roommates owed him $200 each for months of utility bills. Having utility costs
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A Radio Shack franchisee in Montana is offering new subscribers to Dish Network a useful accessory – a free firearm. Steve Strand, owner of a RadioShack outlet in Montana’s Bitterroot Valley, says subscriptions to the Dish Network package have tripled since he started giving away pistols and shotguns last autumn. He told Reuters the bulk
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I just found another great startup on Kickstarter. This one is a panoramic video lens for your iPhone: The GoPano micro is a lens for the iPhone 4 to make 360º panoramic videos! Just snap the lens to your iPhone 4 and press record to make cool interactive 360º videos. Use it to record all
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It is not easy being a working mom. While heading off to do one job during th day, the rest of the time is spent at another job: parenthood. The owners of Poppies are aware of just how hard these amazing women work, so they have decided to showcase the products made by women within
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Deanna Bellacicco Breault is making over her social media presence, hiring a part-time marketing consultant, and playing with the possibility to sell her products on QVC. Another biscotti maker, Debbie Sadowsky, is giving her product packaging a makeover and in the middle of relaunching her website. For both women, it is a sign of growth,
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InvestorGuide: Wal-Mart is still in the early stages of banking, hoping to ultimately create a branded bank, much to the vehement opposition of the U.S. banking industry. The company has been twice denied takeovers of banks, but it has expanded its financial services drastically and silently through partnerships with Discover, GE Consumer Finance, MoneyGram International
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Most people would not give the hammer in their garage or shed a second thought. After all, the job it fills is quite simple. The person picks it up, and it hammers things. However, Kenneth Del Colgiano felt that was not good enough. Kenneth has created the Wise Hammer. It not only hammers things, but
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Shawna Spencer was the proud owner of a high-end shoe boutique. While the shoes inside cost between $250 to $1200, she saw an unfortunate trend outside those doors. She had a disturbing encounter with some high school girls one day, and she was inspired to make a difference. So Shawna created I Am You. It
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Washington Post: Kevin Lee, a George Mason University senior, says he earns about $50,000 a year with an illicit-sounding pitch on Craigslist: “Get Your iPhone Jailbroken Today.†Within minutes, the computer science major can download code onto his customers’ iPhones and fling open the portal to an alternative world of apps and software that Apple
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