The Press NZ: Run your eyes over this lot: elderflowers, rhubarb, gooseberries, rosehips. Get the picture? If “old-fashioned” popped up, you’d be right – these were the flowers and the fruits your granny put to good use in her kitchen. Now, for Christchurch marketing entrepreneur Mark Dillon, these ingredients represent a business opportunity. Five years […]
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OpenCola is a brand of open source cola, where the instructions for making it are freely available and modifiable. Anybody can make the drink, and anyone can modify and improve on the recipe as long as they, too, license their recipe under the GNU General Public License. Since recipes are, by themselves, not copyrightable, the
This sounds like a great idea to try with your kids: After a brief, failed experiment paying me to do chores, my dad tried something really neat. It clearly took a bit of legwork, but maybe there are some transferrable lessons for parents who want to lay an entrepreneurial foundation. He gave me a vending
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DesignTAXI.com: Called the ‘A011 Peak Shift’, the vending machine cools products only during the night instead of the daytime—to take advantage of the surplus power capacity at night. The machine is also made with airtight doors and insulation materials, to prevent cold air from escaping and reduce the impact of outside temperature. Currently, the machines
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1830 — The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad’s new Tom Thumb steam locomotive races a horse-drawn car, presaging steam’s role in US railroading. 1898 — Caleb Bradham invents the carbonated soft drink that will later be called “Pepsi-Cola”. 1953 — Nippon Television broadcasts Japan’s first television show, including its first TV advertisement. Caleb Davis Bradham (May
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Fast Company reports on a new company called uFlavor, that promises to bring custom sodas to the masses — both in the mail and via internet connected vending machines. Picture this: You are sitting in, say, a Bermuda hotel on vacation. Suddenly you are struck by a crazy idea for a new soft drink taste.
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InventorSpot: Just in time for Japan’s “winter party season†comes Pepsi Pink, a blush-tinted cola which should sell well in the homeland of Hello Kitty. According to Pepsi Japan, new Pepsi Pink is bursting with the rich aroma and refreshing taste of strawberry milk. Is the world ready for carbonated strawberry milk, or at least
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The Galcos Soda Pop Stop in Los Angeles only sells sodas. They have over 500 different sodas in glass bottles, and not a single Pepsi or Coke product on their shelves. The video interview below is incredibly inspiring to me for some reason. Photo by Dave Schumaker.
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