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Opportunities RSS FeedsVirtually See the Doctor - If you live in Detroit, and you need to go to the doctor, you now have a new option: a computer screen in Rite Aid. American Medical News: When patients walk into a NowClinic at any one of nine Detroit-area Rite Aid pharmacies, they can choose among multiple physicians to see about what’s ailing them. [ ]...Feed Source: feedproxy.google.com Watch Out Dentists: The Plasma Toothbrush is Coming - At the University of Missouri scientists are trying to do away with painful visits to the dentist. They’ve developed a plasma brush, that would allow dentists to do away with the drill and prepare cavity-damaged teeth for fillings. Instead of grinding away damaged parts of the teeth, the plasma brush modifies the tooth surface to [ ]... Opportunities in Lampshade Leveling - The next interview in our collection of Walmart Get on the Shelf contestants Jack D’Alelio. What product did you submit to Walmart’s Get on the Shelf contest? My product is called the Magic Toob™ Lampshade Leveler. It represents a quantum leap forward for clip-on style shades because it will allow them to work properly (i.e. [ ]... Selling Fruit Juice in China - It seems like every medium-sized town in America has at least one juice shop. What would drive someone to open their own? When Flo Eysler looks out his window, he doesn’t see natural juice everywhere. Instead, he sees pandas and pagodas and food covered in oil. But in his mind’s eye, he thinks he might [ ]... OatShakes: Finnish Milk Made From Oats - Mika Manninen and Helena Lumme are immigrants to the United States from Finland. Because you always crave the food of your youth, after moving to the US, Lumme would continue to bring back suitcases full of food whenever she had an opportunity to returned to Finland for her work as a grocery consultant. One of [ ]... The iTreadmill - According to Mashable, there might be an Apple-branded treadmill in the works. At least that?s the thrust of a patent the company applied for, which involves a ?sports equipment apparatus? with smart components to let it interface with an iPod or iPhone. The patent application, made public yesterday by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office [ ]... Interview with the Inventor of CampfireGrill - Next up in our Walmart Get on the Shelf contestant interview series is Jeffrey Walker. His product, the CampfireGrill, is a campfire grill with a raised edge to keep your food on the grill and not in the campfire. What product did you submit to Walmart’s Get on the Shelf contest? The Pioneer model campfire [ ]... Today in Entrepreneurial History: February 6 - 1815 ? New Jersey grants the first Americanrailroad charter to John Stevens. 1959 ? Jack Kilby of Texas Instruments files the first patent for an integrated circuit.... Looking for Love in a Stack of Books - When I was young, and single, I used to visit bookstores. Not just because I loved to read, but also because I thought it might have been a good place to meet girls. (It wasn’t.) You can tell a lot about a person by the kinds of books they read. What reader hasn’t made a [ ]... Baristas: The ?Hooters? of Coffee - Business Insider: Baristas Coffee, a sort of Hooters on caffeine, caters to those who like their coffee hot and their servers hotter — you know, customers who enjoy cheesecake with their java. Let’s not be coy about it, though, because the attention-seeking Seattle franchise certainly isn’t. The company freely admits that it distinguishes itself from [ ]... How Healthy Is Your Small Business? - Not sure how healthy your small business is? Take a look at some advice from the Herald Sun. IS YOUR BUSINESS UP AND COMING? A NEW business needs a proper financial, operational and legal structure to chart its early days, including market research and a monthly or weekly cash flow projection and budget. IS IT [ ]... From The Shed To Internal Combustion Engine Wizard - NZ Herald: Shepherd was always bothered by the inefficiencies – especially the lack of leverage – in the internal combustion engine. With the overall idea in his head he began to sketch out an engine design, which was built into a prototype and exhibited at the Hutchwilco Boat Show and is now on display at [ ]... Doughnuts At The Superbowl - Debbie Pifer never imagined her doughnuts would go to the Superbowl, but this year they were delivered to the NY Giants. The mother-in-law of Jim Cordle noticed her blueberry doughnuts and ordered dozens for the team. “We were just a little excited,” said Debbie Pifer, owner of White House Fruit Farm. “Here we are in [ ]... Stride Rite Seeking Mompreneur Ideas - Boston Herald: Stride Rite hopes to reach a wide audience of ?mompreneurs,? according to product line manager Kate Cox. ?Robeez by Stride Rite was created by a mom for moms, and we wanted to continue in this tradition as we look to add new ideas to our celebrated footwear brand,? she said. Stride Rite is [ ]... Today in Entrepreneurial History: February 5 - 1869 ? The largest alluvial gold nugget in history, called the “Welcome Stranger”, is found in Moliagul, Victoria, Australia. 1909 ? Belgian chemist Leo Baekeland announces the creation of Bakelite, the world’s first synthetic plastic. 1924 ? The Royal Greenwich Observatory begins broadcasting the hourly time signals known as the Greenwich Time Signal or the [ ]... New Trend: Stand-Up Meetings - WSJ: Atomic Object, a Grand Rapids, Mich., software-development firm, holds company meetings first thing in the morning. Employees follow strict rules: Attendance is mandatory, nonwork chitchat is kept to a minimum and, above all, everyone has to stand up. Stand-up meetings are part of a fast-moving tech culture in which sitting has become synonymous with [ ]... Watch Out For Fake Facebook Stock - If you do construction work on someone’s home and they offer to pay you in Facebook stock — before the IPO — it might not be a good idea to accept it in lieu of cash, as one Wisconsin man learned last week. Marianne Oleson, 46, made her initial appearance in Winnebago County court Wednesday [ ]... Video: Augmented Reality Business Card - Maybe there is a future for the lowly business card after all. PSFK: Advertising agency JWT London has used image-recognition app Blippar to create a unique and innovative new business card that lets people view their showreel and receive directions to their office. Video below.... How To Find Your Luggage in a Sea of Black Suitcases: Coverlugg - Next up in our series of interviews with Walmart’s Get on the Shelf contestants is Greg Sanchez, inventor of the Coverlugg. What product did you submit to Walmart’s Get on the Shelf contest? Our product is called Coverlugg. It is a unique neoprene cover that simply slides over the top of your existing luggage that [ ]... Japanese Entrepreneurs Dream Of Silicon Valley - Manufacturing.net: Small but growing numbers of Japanese entrepreneurs are jumping into the startup scene in northern California, particularly since the earthquake and tsunami last March. They include Naoki Shibata, who took the plunge by giving up the sort of life many Japanese in past decades spent their lives trying to attain. Only 30, Shibata had [ ]... Little Cloud Nine Travel Pillow - Next up in our series of interviews with contestants in Walmart’s Get on the Shelf contest is Steve Diemer, inventor of Little Cloud Nine travel pillow. What product did you submit to Walmart?s Get on the Shelf contest? My product is called Little Cloud Nine. Where?d the idea come from? My wife and I travel [ ]... Business Plan Competitions Revamped - I’m glad to see that some business plan competitions are focusing more on the business and less on the plan. WSJ: Less planning, more legwork. That’s the formula some business schools are using to overhaul the competitions they conduct each year to test their students’ mettle as entrepreneurs. The contests, which have been an academic [ ]... Today in Entrepreneurial History: February 3 - On this date in 1637, Tulip mania collapsed in the United Provinces (now the Netherlands) as sellers could no longer find buyers for their bulb contracts. What was tulip mania, you ask? Tulip mania was a period in the Dutch Golden Age during which contract prices for bulbs of the recently introduced tulip reached extraordinarily [ ]... Small Biz Optimism At Three Year High - Fox Business: Three out of four (75 percent) small-business owners in the U.S. are confident about the future of their businesses, a new economic report shows. This is the highest level of small-business optimism in this country in the past three years and a jump from 64 percent of owners giving future prospects a thumbs-up [ ]... Copyright © 2012, TopLooker.com. All Rights Reserved. |
