The ingredient list for a journalism startup once began with ink, presses and trucks. Now the recipe often starts with a domain, a niche and a strategy. The decline in launch costs has helped inspire a boom in journo startups. But just because it’s easier to start something doesn’t mean it’s easier to succeed. What […]
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ReadWriteCloud is reporting that applications are open now for Amazon Web Service’s Startup Challenge. This is the fourth year that AWS has run the competition, designed to help recognize startups that are using (or planning to use) any of the paid Amazon Web Services, including Amazon EC2, Amazon S3, or Amazon Mechanical Turk. Prizes include
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According to The Week, in an attempt to discover and deploy new technologies more quickly, a growing number of organizations are offering hefty cash prizes to inventors with breakthrough ideas. Here are five $1 million-plus innovation prizes currently up for grabs: $1 Million For Growing Chicken In A Test Tube In an attempt to put
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Tom Quinn isn’t the kind of entrepreneur who needs help getting his ideas in front of the right people. So why is he pitching his latest idea–a portable system to convert food scraps and other waste into ethanol–on a website frequented by basement tinkerers and dorm-room startups? Bloomberg Businessweek reports that Quinn’s E-Fuel is among
Firebox.com, an online toy and gizmo gift store, and toy news website Toyology.com just announced the results of their survey of over 3,000 adults aged 20 to 40 for their choice of most popular toy ever made. It looks like you guys are big Lego fans. And you are correct, Lego was selected as the
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Firebox.com, an online toy and gizmo gift store, and toy news website Toyology.com just announced the results of their survey of over 3,000 adults aged 20 to 40 for their choice of most popular toy ever made. n {democracy:56} Answer tomorrow!
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Stephen Key over at InventRight.com emailed me about a new prime-time show on the Discovery Channel. He’s trying to get the word out to inventors about this opportunity. The program will feature two hosts (who are experts in invention/innovation/product development) who travel around the country meeting people who are working on “the next great idea”.
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Looking for something fun to do with kids of all ages this summer? Fenway News Online reports that Design Squad, the PBS engineering reality competition series, is offering kids a chance to get in on the action this summer. The 2010 Trash to Treasure Competition challenges kids, ages 5-19, to recycle, reuse, and re-engineer everyday
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Look out Lunchables, Publix is getting into the kids meal business. The Tampa Tribune reports that with school set to start in a couple months, the Southeast’s leading grocery chain is planning to roll out a series of its own pre-packaged kids meals, but deli-made and designed to tuck neatly into kid’s lunchboxes. The move
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The Nashville Business Journal is reporting that the Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development is now accepting entries into their “What Makes You an Entrepreneur” video competition. Entries will be accepted through Oct. 31 through the Tennessee Open for Business website, http://tnopenforbusiness.org. Finalists will be selected from five categories: Main Street/downtown; home-based; agri-business; arts
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