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Choose a page number: 1 Opportunities RSS FeedsToday in Entrepreneurial History: May 21 - On this day in in 2000, Mark Hughes, the founder and CEO of Herbalife died. Herbalife is a global nutrition, weight management and skin-care company who’s products are marketed through a network of 2.1 million independent distributors. In February 1980, Mark Hughes began selling the original Herbalife weight management product from the trunk of his [ ]...Feed Source: feedproxy.google.com Starlite: Material That Could Change The World - Mail Online: Scientists still say they are desperate to learn the secret of ‘Starlite’ – and the inventor’s family may have it. The material was the invented by the eccentric English inventor and former hairdresser Maurice Ward who had no formal scientific training and claimed he put it together on his kitchen table with a [ ]... Going Back In Time: Turning The Modern iPad Into An 80?s Toy - Mail Online: Now the Etch-a-Sketch, that beloved toy which started life in the 1960s and amused children for the next three decades, is coming back – thanks to the help of the iPad. Inventor Ari Krupnik has created an almost exact replica sleeve of the Etch-a-Sketch, including those two big twiddly buttons with which you [ ]... Building A Better Defibrillator Implant - azdailysun.com: The defibrillator is still a work in progress, but Strauss recently filed an application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office to secure a patent for CardiaGard, a device that will monitor the heart to detect and treat coronary artery disease — a condition that affects more than 15 million Americans. The device is [ ]... New Steak ?Discovered? - Cattle Network: On April 17, 2012, the Vegas Strip Steak was unveiled exclusively as the “newest” beef steak at the Protein Innovation Summit in Chicago, Ill. “The Vegas Strip Steak is the latest and perhaps last steak to be found from the beef carcass,” said Jacob Nelson, Robert M. Kerr Food & Agricultural Products Center [ ]... Today in Entrepreneurial History: May 18 - On this day in 1808 the American entrepreneur Elijah Craig died. He was a Baptist preacher who invented bourbon whiskey. His name is now used as the brand name for a Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey marketed by Heaven Hill.... What You Can Learn From Mark Zuckerberg - NuWire Investor: Here are a few lessons that small and large business leaders can take from Mark Zuckerberg’s example: 1. An unwavering dedication to the company’s vision. “The one thing we can take from Mark is complete belief in what he is doing and his determination to succeed,” says Craig Libis, CEO of Executive Recruiting [ ]... What Are Estimated Tax Payments? - One thing new entrepreneurs fail to consider is just how much, and how often they will pay state and federal taxes. The estimated tax payment requires some to pay in quarterly throughout the year. Business Insider breaks down the information for you. Who has to pay estimated tax payments? The rules for estimated tax payments [ ]... The iCar: Steve Jobs Vision For Vehicles - When it comes to technology, Apple has been looking toward the future for a long time. The car is no different, reports Cnet. The project joins a short list of others that did not come to fruition ahead of Jobs’ death last October, but have since been revealed. Per a conversation noted in Walter Isaacson’s [ ]... Facelift Bungee: The Temporary Mini Facelift - WXYZ: She looked into what a mini-facelift would cost. The $5,000 price tag eliminated that idea. ?I went home and got my makeup mirror, and I just couldn?t stop thinking. I just wished there was a way that I could look like this, affordably,? said Aschauer. So Kimberly invented a way. She fastened a piece [ ]... Would A ?Common App? Help? - When it comes to the government, small businesses can expect to full out a mountain of paperwork for anything from accreditation to government contracts. Politico recently shared an idea for a common application they think would help. The Small Business ?common app? would function much like the one that students complete to apply to multiple [ ]... The Handwork Studio: Camp For Crafty Kids - PR Newswire: Thirteen years ago, mother of two Laura Kelly stood in the doorway of a kindergarten class and watched as a group of three-, four- and five-year-olds baked bread and hand-sewed little animals. Kelly was prospecting schools for her own children, and to a mother who was nervous about choosing the right one, “this [ ]... What Brushing Your Teeth Tells You About Federal Grant Funding - The following is a guest post by Kevin Bowen. To understand how federal technology grants can improve the bottom line of a small business, we need to revisit ancient times ? those days when primitive technology still forced sleepy people to move one hand when brushing their teeth. It was a barbaric era. The nation?s [ ]... How to Attract New Customers (and Keep Old Ones) - With 21,000+ blog posts on this site, weird posts from the past sometimes suddenly attract a lot of attention. This old post) of Angela’s from 2008 most be even more relevant today than when it was first published. 6 Ways To Attract Customers And Keep Them Coming Back No matter what area of business you [ ]... Honda Invents Segway Replacement - LA Times: On Tuesday, Honda announced its new Uni-Cub, a personal mobility device that lets you glide around the office or the aquarium perched comfortably on what looks like a trash compactor on wheels. Like the Segway, the Uni-Cub allows the rider to control it simply by shifting her weight forward, backward or side to [ ]... Dog Custody Battles are Big Biz - The Week: “Breaking up is hard to do. And for Craig Dershowitz, it’s getting awfully expensive. The 34-year-old New Yorker’s ex-girlfriend, Sarah Brega, took their dog, Knuckles, when she moved to California after their split, and he’s suing to get the puggle ? half pug, half beagle ? back. So far, he has spent $60,000 [ ]... Today in Entrepreneurial History: May 16 - On this day in 1843, the first major wagon train heading for the Pacific Northwest sets out on the Oregon Trail with one thousand pioneers from Elm Grove, Missouri. The Oregon Trail is a 2,000-mile (3,200 km) historic east-west wagon route and emigrant trail that connected the Missouri River to valleys in Oregon and locations in [ ]... Smallest Robot Hopes To Join Indian Army - A young man in India has created a robot that’s already made its way into record books. How he hopes to enlist it in the army, reports Bangalore Mirror. Shirur, who completed his engineering from Basaveshwara Engineering College, Bagalkot, has developed a 61mm x 54mm x 51mm robot that is so tiny that it?s bound [ ]... The Man Who Created Nachos - The Huffington Post: During World War II, wives of American military officers who lived at the Eagle Pass. Texas. base would often venture over the Rio Grande River to the nearby Mexican town of Piedras Negras. On one of these excursions, a group of women stopped at the Victory Club, a popular restaurant, for a [ ]... Presenting Like Steve Jobs - If you need a lesson on presenting, there is no better man to emulate than Steve Jobs. Entrepreneur has pulled together a list of his qualities you should consider. 1. Know the one critical point in your presentation — then make it clear. 2. Acknowledge why people are listening to you. 3. Make an immediate, [ ]... How They Almost Deleted Toy Story 2 - Ever forgot to back something up? If so, you’ll appreciate this video from Pixar, about how they almost erased Toy Story 2. I use Dropbox for my backups. What do you recommend?... Smarter Parking Meters - Photo by Ian Sane. The Atlantic Cities: “This week, the on-street parking meters in Santa Monica, California, have evolved to the next state of sentient existence. Now, whenever a car leaves a spot, the meter will reset itself, even if there’s still time left on the meter. The tiny, measured-in-minutes lottery prize of the urban [ ]... How to Make Money Online - Author Seth Godin has listed his 21 rules for making money online. The first two are golden: The first step is to stop Googling things like, “how to make money online.” Not because you shouldn’t want to make money online, but because the stuff you’re going to find by doing that is going to help [ ]... Pancake Art - Like Nathan Shields I like to make pancakes for my kids on Saturday mornings. While I can barely recreate my children’s first initials, my pancake design skills have nothing on this American math teacher in Saipan. Shields can make just about anything! Take a look at his website, Saipancakes, for more of his creations. Although [ ]... Niche Biz: Raffle Tickets to Space - Wired: A new startup company’s $10 space posters come with a chance to win a ride on a suborbital space vehicle. Called “I Dream of Space,” the company is selling 25,000 posters at $10 apiece, the proceeds of which should cover a $200,000 ride on Virgin Galactic’s SpaceShipTwo or a $95,000 seat on XCOR Aerospace’s [ ]... Copyright © 2012, Online Business Idea. All Rights Reserved. |
