FCN: During the day he’s a sales rep with Thigpen, but in his spare time he works with his friend Jim on The Travesso, which is basically a handheld, travel sized espresso maker. It makes a shot of espresso without the really expensive machine. Plus the deer hunter with disriminating taste can take it in […]
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According to Bloomberg Businessweek, we are living in the golden age of coffee lid design. The breakthrough lid, Solo Cup’s Traveler model, made its debut in 1986 and is now part of the Museum of Modern Art’s permanent design collection. “Initially the Traveler lids were a tough sell, on account of its higher price,” says
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If you thought that advertising was everywhere already, wait until it find it on your morning coffee. Could you sell advertising on the joe and give the coffee away for free?
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It seems that you can combine anything with coffee and make a business out of it. A Oregon woman has started a coffee and dancing establishment: Darlene Chapman isn’t looking for Dancing with the Stars competitors at her new business, Jitterbug n Java. She is looking instead for music lovers who want to socialize, drink
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BusinessNewsDaily: Skier Shannon Bahrke earned Olympic glory when she won the silver medal in the moguls during the 2002 Games in Salt Lake City. Bahrke followed that up eight years later in Vancouver, winning the bronze medal and becoming the first U.S. freestyle skier to win multiple medals. Five years later, Bahrke and her husband,
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Lee Johns first fell for Cafe2U in Australia. He discovered the mobile coffee shop while in the country and knew it was a concept that would find success in the US. So, he obtained the rights to set up franchises in the US. Earlier this year, Johns and the company’s Portland-based CEO traveled to Australia
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Bloomberg: Howard Schultz is giving new meaning to “start me up.” The increasingly activist Starbucks Corp. chief executive officer is taking donations online and through Starbucks cafes to create a small business lending fund. The company will donate $5 million in seed money to give the project, umm, a jolt. That money can be leveraged
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Sipping a delicious cup of tea, coffee, or nibbling delicious chocolate can generate thoughts of beautiful places. While it may not physically take you where you’d like to go, Premium Organic Cafe allows you to buy the ingredients you need to take yourself on a mental vacation from the comfort of your own home. With
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In 1995, John Sylvan was drinking 30 to 40 cups of coffee per day. Not just because he loved the stuff, but because he and his business partner, Peter Dragone, were working on a new kind of coffee maker. They named their invention “Keurig,” a word meaning excellence that Sylvan pulled from a Danish-English dictionary.
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Lucy Valena was mentally ready to become a coffee entrepreneur, but her wallet was not. She lacked savings and collateral, but she had determination. So, she reached out to the SBA. Rather than give her a loan, they told her to try the Samuel Adams Brewing the American Dream program. According to USA Today, she
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