Forbes: Business development guru Petra Vorsteher co-founded mobile advertising startup Smaato. Prior to Smaato, she was a founding member of Intershop, helping grow the company to a publicly listed company with a market cap of $12B. Follow her startup on Twitter at @smaato.
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BusinessWeek: The result is the SleepTracker, a watch-like monitor and alarm that users wear on their wrists to record their sleep patterns and awaken them at an optimal time within the window they have chosen. The alarm goes off when the lightest sleep stage is reached during that window, reducing early morning grogginess. The monitor
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Wall Drug was the quintessential struggling small businesses in a dieing small town in 1936, when it stepped back and examined its intrinsic resources and realized that its key to success was free ice water: One hot Sunday in July, though, a great change swept us up. It started quietly, in the deadening heat of
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The Wall Street Journal: When a man in a Cartier watch stepped into the IWC Schaffhausen boutique in Beverly Hills recently, salesman Hua Huynh sprang into action. He led the customer to a case of Aquatimers, the Swiss brand’s line of self-winding dive watches. “What’s the damage?” asked the customer, pointing at one model. “The
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Fast Company reports that Genomatica, a startup best known for figuring out how to make spandex from sugar cane and E.coli, has a new trick up its sleeve: producing chemicals from trash. The startup, which relies on microbes to turn renewable feedstocks into major market chemicals, recently patented a method to use synthetic gas as
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Many entrepreneurs hope for that one in a million business. DeAnna Reposa took it a step further making it to one in 100 entrepreneurs who reached the final stages of Martha Stewart’s Made in America contest. Newport Beach Independent Newspaper: Reposa’s business, Simple Peace, sells reusable shopping bags that are made in Orange County from
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Business 2 Community shares the stories of some entrepreneurial kids who are making money today. Comcate Ben Casnocha is another one of the youngest entrepreneurs in the world and his vision has earned him millions. At the incredibly young age of 12-years-old, Ben Casnocha founded Comcate and created an innovative business model that proved immensely
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Business 2 Community shares the stories of some entrepreneurial kids who are making money today. Creator of RSS 1.0, Co-Founder of Reddit Another one of the youngest entrepreneurs that is still finding success in 2012 is Aaron Swartz. He was incredibly clever and got into the internet game and namely a program for blogs. At
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Business 2 Community shares the stories of some entrepreneurial kids who are making money today. Custom Alaskan Outhouses David Buckingham, one of the youngest entrepreneurs in the world took an idea and ran with it at only 16 years old. David came up with an innovative concept that he decided to bring to life; custom
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Forbes: As a boarding student in a Ghanaian high school, Yaw Duffour-Awuah discovered that several of his classmates who lived several hundred miles away were regularly unable to travel home for brief holidays due to lack of funds. The young man, spotting opportunity, quickly launched his company, Apex Loans. He was only 16 at the
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