A Westwego, Louisiana, man says he has the answer to capping that pipe gushing beneath the gulf, reports NewOrleans.com. Warren Gilbert is a hydraulic specialist. He developed this device he calls a crimper. Using hydraulics he says his machine can be retro fitted to work under water. The key is getting the crimper around the […]
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According to AppScout.com, e-commerce site 6pm.com, a sister site to Zappos.com, accidentally priced all of its products at $49.95 on Friday, costing the company $1.6 million. “This morning, we made a big mistake in our pricing engine that capped everything on the site at $49.95. The mistake started at midnight and went until around 6:00am
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BP’s busted pipe continues to gush crude into the Gulf of Mexico. The resulting slick is now poisoning shores. Brace yourself for goo-covered pelicans, belly-up alligators, wasteland that was marshland. According to Inventors Digest, inventors from across the country have inundated BP, the U.S. government and, yes, Inventors Digest, with ideas on how to stop
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NPR’s Planet Money team reports on how one very small business in Haiti has been affected by the earthquake. Adam and Chana hung out at a tent city in Petionville. There they spied a woman with a huge tub on her head. It was filled with chicken necks, which she was selling for a few
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CNNMoney: Video game developer Harmonix just launched the wildly anticipated The Beatles: Rock Band, uniting one of the most popular video game franchises ever made with history’s biggest rock band. The collaboration is the work of a 320-employee company now owned by MTV. But it wasn’t so long ago that Harmonix’ founders — Alex Rigopulos
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photo credit: Mariano Kamp Open Forum: You rely on referral sources. Note I said “rely on.” Building a network of referral sources and having them recommend you to their friends and family, these are always good things. But relying on them is a big mistake. That’s because you pass control of your own destiny on
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The Dallas Morning News: There’s a brush fire bearing down on your business. You have one hour to evacuate — which means you have one hour to execute a disaster preparation plan. This is a scenario similar to what thousands of small business owners face each year. Luckily, that’s enough time to take care of
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photo credit: pasotraspaso There’s a 98% chance your idea will have gone nowhere, and you will still be working at your job and struggling to make ends meet. What’s the difference, then, between the 98% who fail and the 2% who succeed? One answer is that successful entrepreneurs avoid the traps that stop everyone else
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 photo credit: sashafatcat We often talk about steps to take to ensure better progress and success in business, but I also think it is just as important to discuss the steps to avoid that do have the potential to cripple your business. Read on for crippling steps to avoid in your business that were
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photo credit: tttallis In business there are many signs to look for that indicate how healthy or not your business is. SmallBizBee has ten of them, and what to do to fix them. Here are the first five: Sign #1 You don’t know you unique selling proposition (USP) Sign #2 You have to play with
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