Investors Business Daily: So the race was on among inventors worldwide to find a process that vulcanized rubber. In the thick of that competition was Charles Goodyear. He crossed the finish line first by unlocking the secrets of raw rubber and creating a global industry of rubber products. Finally came the big discovery in 1839. […]
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Reuters:` Canada plans to create a new class of visa that it hopes will attract high-tech and other entrepreneurs to immigrate to the country to start new companies, officials said on Tuesday. It has put a moratorium on issuing its existing entrepreneur visa, which only required an immigrant to hire one person for one year,
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BusinessNewsDaily: In 1976, Zimmerman earned a spot on the Summer Olympics team after winning the U.S. Championships on the balance beam and floor exercises. The women’s gymnastics team placed sixth overall in the Montreal Games. More than a decade after her gymnastics career ended, Zimmerman, along with her husband Curtis, founded The Zimmerman Agency, a
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BusinessNewsDaily: Swimmer Josh Davis earned Olympic glory in 1996 when he was the only male in any sport from any nation to win three gold medals at the Atlanta Games. Four years later, Davis returned to the Olympics as the captain of the men’s swim team. During the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Davis won two
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BusinessNewsDaily: The California native took home a silver medal in the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens by swimming in the prelims of the 400-medley relay. In addition, she individually qualified for the finals of the 100-meter backstroke, placing eighth. Other accolades Clark earned in the pool include being named the Pac 10 Swimmer of the
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BusinessNewsDaily: Boxer George Foreman earned his initial stardom during the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. It was there that he cemented himself as one of the world’s top heavyweights, winning a gold medal after knocking out Jonas ÄŒepulis in the second round of the heavyweight finals. Foreman garnered extra attention when he waved a
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Vancouver Sun: When Brian Wong left the job he landed with Digg in San Francisco after graduating from the University of B.C. at the age of 19, it worried his mom in Vancouver. In the little over two years since then, Wong has set a record as the youngest entrepreneur to score venture capital funding;
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NuWire Investor: Here are a few lessons that small and large business leaders can take from Mark Zuckerberg’s example: 1. An unwavering dedication to the company’s vision. “The one thing we can take from Mark is complete belief in what he is doing and his determination to succeed,” says Craig Libis, CEO of Executive Recruiting
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The New York Times: Vidal Sassoon, whose mother had a premonition that he would become a hairdresser and steered him to an apprenticeship in a London shop when he was 14, setting him on the path that led to his changing the way women wore and cared for their hair, died on Wednesday at his
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The Associated Press: Ears still ringing from the 1960s? Jim Marshall might be to blame. Marshall was the man behind “The” amplifier, the weapon of choice for guitarists like Jimi Hendrix, Pete Townshend of The Who, and Eric Clapton — “The Marshall.” The sixties superstars’ ear-shattering sounds, blasting first in small clubs and music halls
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