Who says couture has to be expensive? Two teenagers walked away with $3000 each for creating their prom outfits entirely out of duct tape. The Arizona Republic says it took Ray Banna and Yancy Esquivel 300 hours to create their designs. They used scissors, permanent markers, a sewing machine and 30 rolls of duct tape. […]
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The Boston Globe is reporting that Staples Inc., the Framingham-based retailer of office supplies, is once again looking for young entrepreneurs who are creating ventures that can have a positive impact on communities. Working with Ashoka, a community of social entrepreneurs, Staples said it is launching its fourth annual youth social entrepreneur competition. The grand
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CNNMoney takes a look at the Winner of the $50,000 TechCrunch Disrupt Award, Soluto. In a field filled with Web-based and mobile apps, Soluto stood out starkly. It’s old-fashioned, runs-on-a-computer software. But the startup trounced all others by tackling a universal problem: PC troubleshooting. Soluto’s software monitors the PC it’s installed on for common annoyances
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AOL Small Business asks who better to help mompreneurs than a diaper company? Kimberly-Clark’s Huggies recently announced the launch of the Huggies MomInspired Grant Program, which will provide mothers with up to $15,000 total in seed capital and business resources to help turn their business ideas into reality. In order to be eligible, companies do
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‘Garage inventors’ is a term used to describe individuals or groups of inventors that create independently. They are not on a salary or salary/incentive basis, paid by their companies to invent; they work alone, on their own or in small groups, generally in someone’s garage or other part of the home. Popular Science recognizes the
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MetroNews.ca: Shirley Broback, 34, was awarded the SavvyMom Mom Entrepreneur of the Year Award for her work as producer of the Vancouver Island Baby Fair and says her win proves that self-described regular women like her can make a big difference with big dreams and big effort. “It shows you don’t have to be a
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npr: A bra that can be turned into two gas masks. Research into whether it’s better to be hit over the head by an empty or full beer bottle. NPR reports on the Ig Nobel Prizes. They are not to be confused with the Nobel Prizes, the world’s most prestigious awards for intellectual achievement. As
The News Journal: Inventor Thomas Edison was in his 30s when he invented the phonograph and perfected the light bulb. So there is still plenty of time for 14-year-old Jason Liu to make a mark with his parabolic reflector — or whatever else he might come up with before he reaches a more mature age
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VentureBeat: RedBeacon, a startup that helps people find local services like maids or repairmen, won best of show at the TechCrunch50 conference in San Francisco. The startup is in many ways what Craigslist could have become for local services. Formed by a group of ex-Google employees, the company is focusing on five markets at first
photo credit: Jacob Bøtter We all have seen articles written on how to handle your under-performers or less than par performers, but what about your star employees, the top performers, have we forgotten about them? Truth is, most of us take the easy way out and either have them write their own review that we
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