Canada.com:
Entrepreneur Nick Kellet is hoping that his successful board game is the gift that keeps on giving.
And the 44-year-old hopes next year will see him break even on his investment of between $150,000 and $200,000 on GiftTRAP.
“I was trying to think of board games and my daughter Freya, who was six at the time, asked, […]
MediaPost:
An entrepreneur in Phoenix is looking to combine the growing craze for coffee and coffee products with increased discretionary pet spending, through a new product introduction: Doggy Java.
“Everybody drinks coffee and tea,” Mari Justin, creator of the drink, tells Marketing Daily. “I thought that it would be a good time to share with my dog.”
The beef-flavored (but […]
NewsDurhamRegion.com:
It was the quest for perfection that put Lesley DiGregorio and Jen Clarke on the entrepreneur train.
The first-time moms were on maternity leave together three years ago when they realized the baby carriers currently on the market did not meet their specific needs.
By the time Ms. DiGregorio had her second child — Ms. Clarke followed […]
Courier-gazette.com:
Amy Long, of McKinney, didn’t set out to be an entrepreneur when she invented the Secure2Me blanket. She was just trying to find a way to keep her newborn son’s blanket from slipping off.
“I just had my third baby and ran out of hands,” Long said. “I struggled to keep him covered that first fall […]
WashingtonPost.com:
Star light star bright. I wish I may. I wish I might. Play this game all night.
That’s what the brains behind North Star Games hope every family member across the nation will say each night before they go to bed.
Founder Dominic Crapuchettes and his business partner Satish Pillalamarri may get their wish. The small business […]
FoxNews:
“Millions of inventions pass quietly through the U.S. patent office each year. Patent No. 7,033,406 did, too, until energy insiders spotted six words in the filing that sounded like a death knell for the internal combustion engine.
An Austin-based startup called EEStor promised ”technologies for replacement of electrochemical batteries,” meaning a motorist could plug in a car […]
Forbes:
“Wildfires across the United States have leveled nearly 7 million acres of land this year.
Green Bay entrepreneur Mike Krysiak said that he thinks he can help prevent the damage from getting worse. The danger that a wildfire poses doesn’t end once the flames are extinguished. With no vegetation to hold exposed soil in place, even […]
CVBT:
“John Lewis has followed thousands of gutters to realize his true passion.
Mr. Lewis is chief executive officer of Commercial Gutter Inc., headquartered in Modesto with a manufacturing plant in Rocklin and a warehouse in Fremont.
He has built his company from a startup eleven years ago with the main business being cleaning gutters to a multi-million […]
KXNET:
“Tom Martell of Bismarck probably never thought of himself as an inventor… but they say necessity is the mother of invention.
And when Tom had to have his leg amputated, he found himself needing a better way to get around.
Tom’s prosthetic leg didn’t allow him the freedom to hunt that he had enjoyed in the […]
SouthCoastToday.com:
“Every inventor has a thousand ideas. But it’s the rare one who has 350 of his ideas actually on the market.
The whole thing started when Zadro thought about the difficulty men had shaving in the shower. The hot water supposedly softened the skin and whiskers for a more comfortable shave, but men couldn’t see to […]
