There’s an old saying that drinking doesn’t make you fat, it makes you lean – against bars, tables, chairs and poles. That joke may get a ring of truth; a new mix allows people to have their margarita and drink it, too – practically guilt free. It’s called Jordan’s Skinny Mixes. According to Tampa Bay […]
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According to a story in BusinessWeek, Andre Woolery had already done a lot–starting an IT company, opening a Caribbean restaurant, and enrolling at Stanford University’s business school–before he started MagnoGrip in Menlo Park, Calif. Woolery, 32, who was born and raised in Jamaica, got the idea for his latest venture in 2005 after he helped
Renee Wood says she’s used to weeping at work. She runs an online bereavement-gift outfit, Comfort Co., from suburban Geneva and gets calls all day from people who want to buy something special for someone who has just lost a loved one, reports BusinessWeek. Compassion comes naturally to Wood–she was a social worker in a
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Her father, renowned linguist Dr. Paul Pimsleur, was the brains behind a language learning system that bears his last name. So when Julia Pimsleur Levine, then a documentary filmmaker, wanted to teach her first son how to speak French, she was understandably picky. According to BusinessWeek, audio learning materials for myriad languages based on her
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The harmonica may seem as American as the blues. But for years, virtually every harmonica in the U.S. was made somewhere else, with Germany’s Hohner accounting for most of them. Musicians now have a homegrown alternative reports BusinessWeek. On Feb. 1, Harrison Harmonicas shipped its first batch of products from a workshop in a business
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BusinessWeek reports that Angie Onassis Parlionas admits she was “obsessed with lip gloss as a kid.” But between softball games and wrestling matches, she often ended up having to buy yet another tube after losing the one she had been using. Today’s generation of girls can be flighty, and it won’t cost them. Parlionas, 31,
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When Brett Stern sees a problem, he fixes it. A lifelong tinkerer, the 50-year-old inventor used his expertise in industrial design to market snack foods, so says BusinessWeek. Unable to find a beer-flavored potato chip, Stern whipped up his own batch. Within two years, he was shipping packages of aptly named Beer Chips, which retail
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Start-up Aardvark had an idea to develop a social search engine, in which people could ask a question via instant messenger and then Aardvark would automatically route the question to the user’s friends, and friends of friends, finally bringing the answer back to the user from the user’s own extended social network. But before Aardvark
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Little did Joseph Morgan know his hobby would develop into a growing business. “Whenever I can grab a pole and go down to the river, or the creeks, that’s where I fish,” he said, reports WTOV9. On Monday, he got his shipment of his product, the Night Light Fisherman. It’s a 7-foot fishing pole with
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The afternoon sun beats down on the rocky hills and quicksand pits that surround the still, gray-blue body of water, which is flanked by Israel and the West Bank on the west and Jordan on the east. As its name implies, there’s little life in the Dead Sea. The water’s extraordinarily high salt content prevents
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