Last year on this day, Angela posted an interview with one of my favorite businesses in NYC: Liceenders. If you haven’t read it, do so and let it inspire you. I never would have have imagined how easy it was to turn something disgusting and shameful into something that is totally normal and profitable? I […]
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The Sunday Business Post: LingleOnline lets teachers automatically create English language learning materials from current news sources. The application’s analysis engine allows teachers to analyse news articles to automatically identify grammar and vocabulary in context. Founded in August 2011, the Dublin-based company was set up by Ian Butler and employs four people. Originally the software
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Springwise: Situated in the Windy City’s River North neighborhood, The Doughnut Vault opens at 8:30 am each day from Tuesday through Friday and 9:30 am on Saturday mornings. Patrons are given good incentive to get there promptly, however, because the store closes its doors for the day as soon as the last doughnut is sold
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Forbes: Business development guru Petra Vorsteher co-founded mobile advertising startup Smaato. Prior to Smaato, she was a founding member of Intershop, helping grow the company to a publicly listed company with a market cap of $12B. Follow her startup on Twitter at @smaato.
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“You can’t build a truly great app unless you iterate like crazy,” said Naomi Kokubo, “And there’s no better way than to code it yourself.” A year ago, Naomi, a mother of two, had ample business experience but no coding background. Instead of hiring an engineer like she’d done in the past, she decided to
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The Huffington Post: Molly told her husband about her idea for safe, durable and stylish sunglasses and he came up with the brand name “Babiators,®” for baby aviators. These cool mini versions of shades aren’t just for style. They actually offer 100 percent protection from both UVA & UVB rays. Today, Babiators can found in
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The News Star: It’s called EX5. The “5” refers to the drink’s five benefits — quicker recovery, less sodium, lower calories, more electrolytes and less sugar, says inventor Brian Brothers of Covington. Brothers said he got the idea while watching sporting events on television. So starting with the idea of improving sports drinks, he spent
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The Tennessean: If you’ve ever wondered what it’s like to fly on those fancy private aircraft that rich people use for getaways such as skiing or beach weekends, a new Web-based company in Smyrna, Tennessee aims to put you in the jet set — at prices that rival those of regular airline seats. SocialFlights.com allows
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Forbes: Kristin Groos Richmond and Kirsten Saenz Tobey both had plenty of experience in business and nonprofits prior to founding Revolution Foods in 2005. The for-profit organization drew not only from the business school classmates’ entrepreneur know-how, but also Richmond’s Vice Presidency at the education non-profit RISE and Tobey’s work evaluating school feeding programs in
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A company called Key Me wants to store your house key in the cloud. It’s not some new fangled way to open your door, rather, their plan is to make a digital copy of your key, so that if you ever need to make a copy you don’t need the original. You can just visit
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