The Man Who Smuggles Trader Joe’s into Canada
For the past two and a half years Michael Hallatt has been a “pirate” — importing Trader Joe’s foods across the US/Canadian border.
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For the past two and a half years Michael Hallatt has been a “pirate” — importing Trader Joe’s foods across the US/Canadian border.
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In 1962, when he was 33, the scientist Nick Holonyak, Jr., created the first practical visible light-emitting diode. Holonyak wasn’t trying to create a light that would replace incandescent bulbs. He was trying to make a laser. Watch on Bizopy.
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Thingverse is a website to swap digital files for 3D printing tiny objects. You can download and print the objects using a Makerbot, or a 3D printing service. Eventually, the site hopes to offer larger objects for download.
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Amy Parsons used to work as a telecommunications executive, but the stress was eating her alive. Diagnosed with an autoimmune condition aggravated by stress, she didn’t let it frustrate her when she was laid off. Instead, she picked herself up and started a business, reports Philly.com. “It’s a different type of stress,” she said during
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In Janet Shulman’s caramels, you’ll find local ingredients. Whether it is Schlafly beer or bacon from Missouri-based pigs, reports Ladue-Frontenac Patch. Shulman, the mother of two, is a self-described “mompreneur.†As her children went off to school, she worked at various jobs and became known as a never-say-no volunteer. But she always felt it was
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After more than a decade of success in Arizona, Larry “Lo-Lo” and Rasheedah White, founders of Lo-Lo’s Chicken & Waffles, are ready to start a soul food revolution. The couple has partnered with local real estate veterans, Mike Anderson, Bret Anderson and Dave Sellers, to launch the original concept as a national franchise brand. The
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My father-in-law has been working fifteen hundred miles away from home for the last seven months in Denver, Colorado. Although he flies home for the weekend once a month or so, he spends every evening after getting off of work starring at the same boring hotel room walls, the boring hotel television, and the same
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In this post on the Priceonomics Blog, Ryan Finlay recounts his business: Craigslist scavenger. The scrap yard’s electromagnetic steel excavator picked up my two steel die cast molds and put them on the scale. 1,240 pounds of steel! That meant $179.80 in my wallet for an hour of work. Not bad considering I picked them
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