Herald Series: A young entrepreneur is on the road to success after his car sharing business clocked up 5,000 users. Drummond Gilbert came up with the idea for GoCarShare.com after seeing queues of cars each carrying just one person. The 29-year-old, from East Hendred, near Wantage, launched his firm 18 months ago to reduce the […]
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New York City used to have hundreds of breweries, wineries and distilleries, but Prohibition wiped them all out. In 2002, the state of New York created a new licensing scheme for distilleries that has made it easy for almost anyone to get into the whiskey making business. Slowly but surely, new distilleries are opening up.
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We Wait For You is a company in London, England that provides short term house-sitting services throughout the city. What is short term house-sitting? Although I’ve never used the term, I understand exactly the service the company provides. Have you ever ordered cable television and been told that the installer will be there sometime between
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You’ve opened the presents. Sipped the nog. Hot-tubbed in champagne. And so, as the new year quickly becomes just “the year,” there’s only one tradition left to check off your list. We’re talking, of course, about turning your Christmas tree into a footstool, the UrbanDaddy newsletter reports. Introducing The Christmas Tree Project, a pop-up concept
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They do lines — lots of lines. You’ll find them in parking lots, airports and even at Miami’s Doral Golf Resort. The company We Do Lines USA is one of the few companies nationwide that specializes in striping — creating those white, iridescent lines to mark off parking spaces. According to Bradenton.com, the Connecticut-based firm,
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For people interested in going to the bar in a town in Ohio, one young entrepreneur is helping them get home reports WDTN2. Cody Bratton, 21, started Divine Parking Services, Corp., a valet company, about a year ago. Soon after he launched another service, designated drivers for those who don’t want to leave their cars
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Snuggies — the famous “blankets with sleeves” from those cheesy TV infomercials — may look frumpy, but with a little imagination, they can be hotter than lingerie in the bedroom, reports AOL News. You’ve probably heard of the myriad sexual positions associated with the ancient Kama Sutra, but what about those practiced in “Snuggie Sutra”?
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Deep fried eel bones. Goat eyeball tacos. Breaded blowfish. All badass-sounding items featured at New York City restaurants both luxe (bones at Sushi Yasuda and blowfish at Oceana) and low (eyeballs at Taqueria Puebla in Staten Island). Inc.com says ingest one of these babies and you’ll have a story to impress your foodie friends–and gross
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Mitchell York, About.com’s Entrepreneur Guide recently discovered an entrepreneur who is rolling in dough…pizza dough. I recently attended a charity event on eastern Long Island and met Matthew Michel, the founder of Rolling in Dough Pizza Co., a mobile pizza truck with a wood-fired oven that caters parties on Long Island and in New York
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Unique products to inspire and amuse. Communication Prosthesis. But I want people to see ALL my teeth when I smile… Brick Sticky Notes. Write your novel and build a house at the same time. Star Trek Enterprise Pizza Cutter. Fire the pepperoni beam Mr. Sulu! Rubik Cube Locker. I put your keys in the top
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