Serving businesses in Vancouver, B.C., Lucky Duck Toy Box offers a solution to the problem of old, dirty, worn out toys in waiting rooms, reports trendspotter Springwise. Instead, it delivers a fresh assortment of sanitized playthings to keep businesses’ youngest customers safe and entertained. All toys are lead-tested, inspected and cleaned with environmentally friendly products. […]
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“C’mon, Salsa, find your dog, find Sweetie,” called Sam Connelly, Salsa’s owner, handler and partner. The pair set out from a 7-Eleven on Silver Hill Road in Suitland in search of Sweetie, an errant beagle, reports The Washington Post. Connelly waved a little patch of Sweetie’s dog bed in front of Salsa’s nose, and almost
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UK home renovation firm Ruby Slippers hopes to help senior citizens enjoy their homes for as long as they can, reports trendspotter Springwise. Ruby Slippers specialises in combining good design with practical functionality that can help people enjoy their home throughout their retirement years. At the heart of the service is a concept it calls
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ReadWriteWeb are chilled and saddened by the ghosts of the past year – the apps that should have been, the startups that failed to launch, the brilliant ideas that were throttled, the great minds that were fired, the tech heroes that committed tragic gaffes. But some failures were so monumental that they require specific enumeration
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Open Small Business has a list of steps to turn services into products: 1. Identify something you can replicate repeatedly — The idea behind a product is that you want to be able to get paid for selling a “thing” and not selling your time. Also, you want to sell the “same” thing over and
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Small Business Computing says quality legal advice and services are expensive. But for small companies trying to navigate the minefields of setting up and running a business – especially for the first time – not getting legal advice can end up being even more expensive. What does a cash-strapped small business have in the way
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In tough economic times, it can make sense for consumers to be both transumers–eschewing the burdens of ownership in favor of shorter-term privileges–and sellsumers, making the most of what assets they do own writes trendspotter Springwise. Aiming to facilitate both is NeighborGoods, a brand-new site that helps consumers borrow, lend, rent, sell and buy stuff
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photo credit: Ana Santos Some of you I’m sure by now have heard of the service Evernote for small businesses. Evernote is a very clever service that allows even the biggest pack rat to store every little note, detail, tweet and photo that they have. However, what many of you don’t know is just how
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photo credit: SimonDoggett Many of us think that in order to have a legitimate working phone number we have to sign up for a long contract and pay an outrageous amount of money for it. This is not necessarily true in all cases. Google Voice offers a free legitimate working phone number that you would
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Mashable: San Francisco is hip to Twitter, and not just when it comes to its tech savvy users. Starting June 2nd, the City of San of Francisco has been supporting all 311 services via Twitter, with the help of Twitter CRM tool CoTweet. Now citizens can send direct messages 24 hours a day to the
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