Who knew a doodle could make you a millionaire – and could land you on national TV? That’s what The New York Daily News asked. It did just that for 18-year-old Rachel Segal, from Ashland, Oregon, inventor of something called “The Doodle Bra.” The high school student appeared on “The View” as part of a […]
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The New Yorker: Carter Glatt, a sixteen-year-old junior at the Horace Mann School, is lanky, with black hair and long eyelashes. He loves to play sports, especially football and tennis. He speaks in a slightly stiff, respectful manner that suggests that he’s used to conversing with adults. He carries a BlackBerry with a crack down
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Texting while driving is foolhardy behaviour, with studies showing it’s more dangerous than getting behind the wheel when you’re drunk. A US company is proposing a solution. TXTBlocker is a combination of phone software and online services that stops drivers from calling or texting while in motion reports The Brisbane Times. Parents supply their child
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CBS News has a great story about an entrepreneur who won $10,000 and met President Obama. 17-year-old Kalief Rollins got to the White House by spreading positive messages of hope and empowerment. He’s the future of America; He’s the promise of a new generation; He’s … the president of the Phree Country clothing company. It
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Inside Edition reports on 13-year-old Maddie Bradshaw who designs and sells thousands of Snap Caps — colorful bottle caps that can be worn as charms on necklaces, bracelets, and hairpins. Photo by OMLET.
Kids these days are always inventing something! Daily Mail Online: A new type of solar panel using human hair could provide the world with cheap, green electricity, believes its teenage inventor. Milan Karki, 18, who comes from a village in rural Nepal, believes he has found the solution to the developing world’s energy needs. The
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Entrepreneur Corner: As I was thinking through my personal goals for this coming year, and discussing individual goals with each of my kids (a recently adopted ritual I highly recommend for any parent), an article from The Economist caught my eye. The article’s subtitle, tells it all: “Depression may be linked to how willing someone
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AOL Small Business: Having your cake and eating it, too, used to be the hallmark of success, but as Jessica Cervantes has learned, it’s even better if you just sell it instead. Cervantes, 19, didn’t plan on becoming an entrepreneur; she wanted to be a doctor. But she was enrolled in a business academy at
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The Miami Herald: Patrick Brown’s fledgling, home-based company Finovation Inc. makes a handful of simple, useful products for the niche market of offshore fishermen. His three innovations – the kite thong, the bait bridle and the “gimbalok” – are in about a dozen tackle shops between Melbourne and the Keys, with their popularity quickly growing
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TechCrunch: Nielsen, the audience measurement company is releasing a brand new report on teens and media with a lofty promise of serious myth busting and hard fact presenting that will downright knock your socks off. Ready for some eye-openers? Here we go: With an ever-expanding media universe, social networks play an increasingly important roles in
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