Popular Science: Ben Hobbins didn’t set out to clean up his local lakes, but his IronClads baits do exactly that. The Wisconsin inventor’s idea – fishing lures that are extra-strong, eco-friendly and nontoxic – solves a serious, if little-known environmental problem. Flexible and cheap soft plastics are the most popular type of lure among sport […]
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Springwise: Bloblive is a networking event that’s essentially intended to be a live version of Ideablob: Attendees air their business ideas in front of a live audience of fellow participants in exchange for advice, feedback and connections. The first Bloblive was held in Philadelphia last fall; since then, it has been expanded to Nashville, San
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Popular Science: Eben Bayer and Gavin McIntyre want to line the walls of your home with mushrooms. The young entrepreneurs have created a strong, low-cost biomaterial that could replace the expensive, environmentally harmful Styrofoam and plastics used in wall insulation, as well as in packaging and a host of other products. Wind-turbine blades and auto-body
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Popular Science: As the 9/11 inferno unfolded on television, one question kept dogging Kevin Stone: Why weren’t the people trapped in the World Trade Center able to make their way to safety? “I said to myself, This is crazy,” recalls Stone, an orthopedic surgeon and seasoned inventor in San Francisco. “There should be a better
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photo credit: Arturo de Albornoz Today we spend a lot of time concentrating on obtaining more customers to help our business’ grow. The more customers obviously means more profit. Below are 3 marketing tactics that a business should use today to help increase their revenue to it’s fullest potential. â— Add PR programs. Public relations
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AbsolutelyNew Blog: Vermont. Yes, Vermont! At least that’s what Forbes magazine says, if you measure inventiveness based on states’ patents per capita — in other words, each state’s number of patents relative to its population size. And what states round out the top 5? 2. Idaho 3. Washington 4. California 5. Massachusetts Of course, these
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Scranton Times Tribune: An Embassy Vinyl customer could be a 50-year-old looking for a Doobie Brothers LP, a 20-something hipster looking for an old punk 45, or a teen looking for a used CD cheaper than dollar downloads of every song. In an age where YouTube, Dizzler and iTunes have all but replaced LPs, 45s
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The Sydney Morning Herald: He has been called a “born creative thinker” and “a man of extraordinarily high principle”. Others consider his inventions frivolous and derivative. Not that Frederick Bailier Richardson III – aka Ric Richardson – particularly cares. As of last week, the 47-year-old inventor, surfer and one-time dirt-biker stands to reap the lion’s
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The Wall Street Journal: While major retailers have gone bankrupt and manufacturers are being shut down throughout this harsh recession, a survival-of-the-fittest business strategy has allowed the more fortunate firms to reap the benefits. Stealing business from other victims is one of the few existing avenues for growth during these troubling times. In a quest
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More news from the Franchise and Business Opportunities expo: North America’s largest Franchise and Business Opportunities Expo and New York’s own The Original SoupMan, makers of the legendary soups of Al Yeganeh, who inspired the “Soup Episode” on Seinfeld, joined forces today to announce a stimulus package contest to help one lucky winner realize their
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