What’s your name, blog name and URL? Matthew Toren of Entrepreneur Blog. What’s your background and day job? Serial entrepreneur, mentor, investor and award winning author of Kidpreneurs.org and SmallBusinessBigVision.com, Co-Founder of YoungEntrepreneur.com, iSell.com. How long have you been blogging? 10 years How’d you get into blogging? My passion has always been entrepreneurship How often […]
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PeachMac’s founders, Darryl and Anne Lyndon Peck, have been in the Apple/Macintosh market for over 20 years. In 2007, they decided to make time for their family, and so opened a small retail and service store specializing in Apple products in Athens, Georgia. Quickly, Peck found that his new business venture posed a challenge: How
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Jon Flint, a former lawyer-turn venture capitalist has his sights on a new industry: hair care. His company, Living Proof, tackles the frizz with science. His Boston-based venture-capital firm, Polaris Partners, typically invested in biotech and Internet companies. So Mr. Flint bought dozens of skin- and hair-care products to learn more about them. He and
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Lost that ugly Christmas sweater Aunt Ethel made you in the 80’s, but you need something to wear to your next ugly sweater party? One company has made it their business to provide people with the ugly sweater they need, reports The Street. Self-titled tacky sweater aficionado John Kaplar took his love of these sweaters
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There’s a small family farm on eighty acres in western Kansas, that unlike its neighbors who might farm corn, or cattle, this farm has a motto: “If they don’t tumble we don’t sell them!” That’s right, the Prairie Tumbleweed Farm grows tumbleweeds. Not only do they ship worldwide, they also quality test each and every
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Chris Guillebeau, author of the $100 Startup knows a thing or two about traveling the world. His secret: free mile bonuses from various credit cards. Once, he rented a shopping cart from a homeless man to help push $2,000 worth of Sacagewea dollar coins to the bank. The US Mint sold the coins at face
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Need something to do this weekend? Extreme Kidnapping is a company that will kidnap you ta gunpoint, tie you up and hold you for ransom. Being abducted, gagged and bound is all part of the game. A GQ reporter recently tested out their service: I had to fly all the way to Detroit to get
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EaganPatch: It’s a lousy job, but somebody has to do it. Meet Paula Salas, a professional nitpicker. Salas is the owner of Kooty Katchers, a lice removal company. After months of in-home appointments, she opened a bricks-and-mortar location in November. Her office is tucked into a discreet office park on Southcross Drive West, at the
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Karen Wildman and Lisa Holmes were constantly battling malfunctioning electronics due to moisture and water damage. The sisters set out to invent a solution. and they did! Their new product, Bheestie Bag, is designed to ‘dry out’ electronic devices: cell phones, iPods, etc. We previously mentioned them here. Here’s how it works. You simply take
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TurningArt.com is a Netflix for art. Starting at $10 per month, you select from a variety framed 16” x 20” museum quality prints and choose one that you’d like to see on your walls. If you don’t like it, you can send it back and you’ll be shipped the next piece from your online queue.
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