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Opportunities RSS FeedsToday in Entrepreneurial History: February 10 - 1863 ? The fire extinguisher is patented. 1870 ? The YWCA is founded in New York City. 1933 ? The New York City-based Postal Telegraph Company introduces the first singing telegram. 1996 ? The IBM supercomputer Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov for the first time....Feed Source: feedproxy.google.com 11 Year Old?s Eco-Friendly Fashion Accessories - Starting a business is hard enough if you’re an adult. If you’re a child, the complications only increase. However, many children succeed in business. Some mow lawns, walk dogs, or baby sit for a living. Maya Penn runs a fashion accessories business. Maya Penn, CEO and owner of her own online boutique “Maya’s Ideas,” started [ ]... Artisan Creates Glamor From Grocery Bags - While many people argue whether plastic bags should continue being used, one woman is upcycling them into unique products. Based outside of Washington, DC in Stafford, Virginia, Tina Dean Designs is owned by Tina Dean Allen. No one will guess that these stylish accessories were once grocery bags. Plastic bags are prepared into plarn (plastic [ ]... The Origin Of The Safety Pin - Walter Hunt was trying to find a way to repay a debt. While nervously wrapping a wire around his finger, the idea suddenly hit. It soon became the dress pin, later known as the safety pin. It was one of many Hunt inventions, including the sewing machine, knife sharpener, a streetcar alarm bell and a [ ]... Kodak Shuttering Camera Biz - The inventor of the digital camera, Kodak, is now leaving the camera business, reports Reuters. Kodak, which filed for bankruptcy protection last month, said on Thursday that getting out of cameras would result in “significant” job losses. Most of the 400 people in that business are based in Rochester, New York, and work in research [ ]... Someone Invent This Already: A Telephone DNS - I don’t want to call your phone. I want to call you. Why do I have to look in my phone book (whether in paper, on my phone or computer) to find your number? Why do I have to guess whether you’re at home, at work, or in the car? Why do I have to [ ]... Five North Dakota Sisters Make Reality TV Pitch - Boomtown Girls from Lucky Dog Filmworks on Vimeo. Grand Forks Herald: Five sisters from a North Dakota boomtown are looking to make a bang on reality TV. A trailer for “Boomtown Girls,” featuring five Williston sisters who work alongside men in the Oil Patch, recently became an Internet sensation locally. But few details are known [ ]... Infographic: How Coffee Changed America - View a larger version here. If you like coffee and enjoyed this infograhic, you’ll probably like the book Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World. Uncommon Grounds tells the story of coffee from its discovery on a hill in Abyssinia to its role in intrigue in the American colonies to [ ]... Buffalo Wild Wings - The franchise restaurant Buffalo Wild Wings is testing iPads in their restaurants. Patrons will be able to order their wings and drinks from the devices as well as jump online to keep themselves entertained while they wait for their ordered food to arrive at their table. Computerworld: The 830-store Buffalo Wild Wings chain is about [ ]... Today in Entrepreneurial History: February 9 - 1870 ? President Ulysses S. Grant signs a joint resolution of Congress establishing the U.S. Weather Bureau. 1895 ? William G. Morgan creates a game called Mintonette, which soon comes to be referred to as volleyball. 1900 ? The Davis Cup competition is established. 1964 ? The Beatles make their first appearance on The Ed [ ]... Small Biz Jobs: Real? - OC Register: More than one in five small-business owners (22%) expect to add jobs over the next 12 months, while 8% expect to eliminate jobs, according to the new Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index poll. This is the most optimistic owners have been in four years, Gallup says. Small-business owners tend to be optimistic. Otherwise, [ ]... Heart Catheter Decreases Health Costs, Save Lives - Chicago Tribune: Reavill won a prestigious contest in London late last year called the OmniCompete Health Pitch Battlefield, whose independent judges said his invention is a simple way to catheterize the heart. It reduces risks to an “absolute minimum” by moving the catheter insertion to the arm, the judges said, replacing a complex wire-guided procedure [ ]... Apple, Inventor Face Off Over driPhone - Apparently one “I” can make a big difference if you choose to name a product with the word phone in it. At least, that is what driPhone recently discovered. Apple, through a Wellington-based patent firm, told Hayden Crowther it was opposing his application to trademark the driPhone name in New Zealand because it is too [ ]... StepNpull: Open Doors Hands Free - Our next interview in the Get on the Shelf series features Mike Sewell and his product, the StepNpull. What product did you submit to Wal-Mart’s Get on the Shelf contest? We submitted StepNpull which is a hands free door opener designed for commercial latch less doors. It gives the user the option of pulling the [ ]... Vote For Your Favorite .biz Domain ? Hint! Hint! - My.biz is celebrating ten years of the .biz (dot biz) domain name. To make a party out of it, they’re sharing the success stories of dot biz domain owners and letting the public vote on their favorite one. I’m sure you can think of one dot biz domain to vote for. After all, you’re reading [ ]... Grocery Shopping Delivery Services - Knoxville News Sentinel: Chasity Shelby and her husband, Carden, were looking to start a home-based business. A former accountant at the University of Tennessee School of Veterinary Medicine, she wanted to be able to work for herself. In September, after about a year of planning and research, the Shelby family launched Mobile Market Knoxville, a [ ]... Birchbox: The Netflix of Cosmetics - Mashable: While Harvard Business School grads Katia Beauchamp and Hayley Barna were looking for a business idea, they noticed that the beauty product industry was seriously behind the times on the online retail side. They discovered that some of the biggest pain points for customers included the overwhelming selection of products and the inability to [ ]... Starbucks Augmented Reality Cup - Econsultancy: Yesterday Starbucks launched their new Valentine’s augmented reality (AR) cups. It’s quite a clever way to get customers to not only drink their morning coffee but to buy one for a loved one. All you need to do is download the app from Starbucks and you can “experience your valentine” as the heart on [ ]... The Billion Dollar Story of 5-Hour Energy - Forbes: The rise of 5-Hour began in the spring of 2003, when Bhargava found himself at a natural products trade show in Anaheim, Calif. At one booth the sales reps peddled a 16-ounce concoction claiming to boost productivity for hours. Bhargava took a swig. ?For the next six or seven hours I was in great [ ]... iPhone Apps Create 500,000 Jobs & Small Biz - Yesterday I posted that Apple’s iPhone business was larger than all of Microsoft. Some of you said, “well good for them, but what about us?” Today, I’ve found a report that indicates that nearly half a million programmer jobs/small businesses have been created by people programming apps for devices like the Apple iPhone and iPad [ ]... The Future is 3D Printed Manufacturing - Forbes: Now the economics of large-scale production runs carried out overseas are being disrupted by the possibility of making, selling and delivering millions of manufactured items one unit at a time, right next to the customer. The question most people ask when thinking about the possibilities of 3D printing is: which of our existing products [ ]... Infographic: Is Free Shipping Essential? - Free shipping was once a something that could set your online retail business apart, has it become cost of doing business? The infographic below from Monetate points out that: Nearly half of all online orders now include free shipping Shoppers spend more when shipping costs are waived I know I discriminate against retail websites that [ ]... Scratch and Sniff Jeans from Canada - CNBC: Why smell like denim when you can smell like raspberries? If the idea intrigues you, why not try on a pair of Scratch-n-Sniff Raspberry Scented jeans, which were released worldwide by Montreal-based Naked & Famous Denim on Tuesday. “These jeans actually smell like raspberry candy when scratched,” the company claims on its site. The [ ]... Today in Entrepreneurial History: February 8 - 1879 ? Sandford Fleming first proposes adoption of Universal Standard Time at a meeting of the Royal Canadian Institute. 1910 ? The Boy Scouts of America is incorporated by William D. Boyce. 1922 ? President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House. 1946 ? The first portion of the Revised Standard [ ]... Copyright © 2012, eStoreValue.com. All Rights Reserved. |