If you have five minutes and you’re lucky enough to be picked as one of five people, you might have a chance to win $5000. According to NPR, two entrepreneurs in Grand Rapids are trying to kick start the economy by feeding the entrepreneurial spirit. Grand Rapids, like most Michigan cities, is struggling to overcome […]
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Timothy Dahlin thought he had the next “As Seen” product, but left the room quite disappointed when his idea was rejected. His creation, the Ice Chest Cooler Label, sticks to coolers and people write on them what can be found within. His goal was to make it easy for people picnicking to figure out which
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Scot Frank, inventor and founder of One Earth Designs, has successfully landed himself a spot in a type of boot camp that is hosted by the Unreasonable Institute. People that enter are required to raise $8,000 within a set period of time. According to The Salt Lake Tribune, those who succeed will receive a position
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The 2011 Dell Social Innovation Competition is a business idea competition for university students. Competitors should come up with innovative ideas to solve social or environmental problems. We’re giving away more than $100,000 in cash prizes to at least five winning teams who will be flown to Austin, Texas for an expense-paid Finalist Week-End that
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The UK government is giving entrepreneurs in Australia, China, Korea, Japan, Thailand, Vietnam, and Indonesia access to their grant program, E-idea, for a chance to fund and support their eco-ideas, reports 9news. “The United Kingdom may be responsible for just two per cent of the world’s carbon emissions but the consequences of climate change will
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If your idea for a fabulous online business is still at the thinking stage, Jennifer Gault-Varner of Pure eCommerce has a proposition for you. Describe your idea for the perfect retail ecommerce business on the online form at Pure e-Commerce, and you could win the business of your dreams. The company that produces turnkey e-commerce
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According to The Wall Street Journal, many have tried, but no one has ever come up with a more elegantly simple way to measure the human foot than Charles Brannock, inventor of that ubiquitous metal gadget found in shoe stores and known, fittingly, as the Brannock device. Created in the 1920s, Brannock’s tool is among
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The United Inventors Association of America is reporting that in January, Silent Crow Productions will begin production on a major television series celebrating backyard inventors in America. It’s an opportunity for you to receive public acclaim through an ethical, well-respected cable network. The network is looking for just 12 of the greatest, most extreme idea
According to The New York Times, for more than a decade, some of the nation’s shrewdest marketers have tried to muscle in on the neighborhood dry cleaner, only to give up after years of labor and millions of dollars in investments. Undeterred, Procter & Gamble is taking a shot at it, again. Having persuaded Americans
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Netflix to Blockbuster: told you so. In 2000, Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings flew down to Dallas to meet with then Blockbuster CEO John Antioco. The two were supposed to discuss a partnership, CNET reports, but Antioco didn’t let the discussion go on very long. Here’s how Netflix CFO Barry McCarthy remembers it: “Reed had the
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