photo credit: cloudsoup Imagine trying to build a national food retailing business based on mail order, far-flung distributors, and trade shows–without using the Internet. No e-mail newsletters or Web site for taking orders and handling complaints, no Facebook fans, or Google ads, or Twitter following. That’s not all. Imagine doing it without using cell phones […]
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The scientist some call “Mr. Christmas Tree” has already conquered conifer diseases, developed guidelines to keep cut trees fresh and helped introduce new species to the American market, reports The Seattle Times. Now Gary Chastagner is using old-fashioned genetics to create a super-race of conifers immune to consumers’ No. 1 complaint about Christmas trees: needles
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Reader’s Digest has an interesting story about former spy, now entrepreneur, Greg Quinn. A tall, brawny Irish American walks into your office, puts a crystal goblet on the desk, and pours out a serving of a deep-purple nectar. “This stuff used to be illegal,” he says in a gravelly voice. “We’re the guys who got
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The Salt Lake Tribune: Adam de Havenos didn’t know much about gardening when he moved to Utah from New York City, but it seemed a shame to let the small plot in the backyard of his Sugar House dwelling become weed infested. The 31-year-old neurology resident didn’t have much time to spare, so this summer
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Fast Company: The bees of America have been working hard all summer: To make a pound of honey, they have to fly the equivalent of eight roundtrips between New York and Paris. Now it’s time to enjoy the fructose of their labor. Have a taste of the facts and figures on honey. Last year, 161
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Does the idea of camel milk appeal to you? In some countries, camel milk is called “liquid gold†for its healing and nutritional qualities. Camel’s milk has three times as much vitamin C as cow’s milk and contains high amounts of iron, unsaturated fatty acids and B vitamins.
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Yesterday at the barber, I couldn’t help but notice all of the hair on the floor. For some reason, getting my haircut really gets my entrepreneurial juices flowing. I asked what they did with all the hair that they collected during the day. The barber looked at me like I was from the Moon and
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