According to The Washington Post, Mike Fogarty has been working in the printing industry for the last 25 years or so, mainly selling paper. He’s an affable guy and a born salesman. The skills he has picked up along the way include knowing a good thing when he sees it. So when Fogarty happened upon […]
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There is another printer though, in a wheel form, not yet known worldwide that does not need ink or paper to print, but is faced on the other hand with the minor problem, that the letters «written» with it, disappear with every next incoming tide (or with the wind, when the sand used as base
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Cassandra Daily: Journalist Melinda Wittstock, harnessing both crowdsourcing and gamification, hopes to create a flourishing source of citizen journalism with her new reporting platform NewsiT . Participants in Wittstock’s mobile, crowd-reporting experiment accept distinct tasks in order to contribute to evolving news items. They can opt to interview a source, capture an image, or check
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Ben Huh has built a million-dollar online empire on the absurd – will it last? ABC Nightline takes a look.
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In this edition of That’s My Business! we’re talking to Avi Zuber, co-founder of Deskelf.com. Listen Now: Popout Or download: That’s My Business!: Deskelf.com Deskelf.com website
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Fast Company reports that starting today, startups that use CrowdFlower’s crowdsourced labor service will have the chance to receive investments of up to $10,000 each, courtesy of startup accelerator and seed fund 500 Startups. The Crowdflower Fund, a $250,000 platform micro-fund, will offer investments in up to 10 companies for a one percent stake. A
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According to a story at ReadWriteWeb, Lindsey Harper recently wrote about her experiences using Mechanical Turk to validate her startup idea. Noting that friends and family are unlikely to be objective when assessing whether or not your idea is viable, she spent $28 on the Amazon service in order to poll 200 people on her
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In this episode, Rich Whittle talks with Jeff Scholen about how he got his simple idea made into a money-making product with the help of Quirky.com. Editor’s note: Quirky.com has reduced their idea submission fee to just $10, so you’ve got no excuse not to try out that new idea!
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In honor of National Inventors’ Month, UncommonGoods is issuing a wide-open design challenge to find our next Uncommon Inventor or Designer. This contest is looking for a product with a spark of inventive genius, a flash of innovation and something that makes us say, Aha! Why didn’t we think of that? Oh, and did we
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Quirky.com takes users’ ideas and turns them into actual products – with improvements made by other site members. CNNMoney takes a look.
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