Popular Mechanics:
He’s certainly best known for inventing the Segway in 2001, but before that Dean Kamen had already come up with a stair-climbing wheelchair called the iBOT—not to mention lightweight medical devices to grant mobility to cancer and diabetes patients. He’s been developing breakthrough technologies for improving lives in the poorest parts of the world […]
BusinessTN.com:
Far too often, growth for a small business is hampered by limited resources. There may not be enough local experts to hire or not enough money to afford them. But you don’t have to go it alone. Outsourcing for small businesses can save time and money, of which the small business owner often has precious […]
The New York Times:
A small company in Jacksonville, Fla., came up with a novel — and sensitive — solution when two crucial employees had trouble making the commute to its new headquarters across town.
As Derek Mercer, the founder and chief executive of the company, Vurv Technology, tells it, the employees’ supervisor came to him with […]
Star Tribune:
Jobless after the dot-com bust, friends Gillett Cole and Jim Myers pooled energies and earnings from a summer job to create their company, Twin Cities Closet Co., which provides creative ways to use storage space.
Deposit check in hand, Twin Cities Closet Co. founders Jim Myers and Gillett Cole celebrated their first order — until […]
Herald Tribune:
You know you are in the wrong line of work when someone sells a cornflake on eBay for $1,350.
Two Virginia sisters got someone to buy the cornflake because it vaguely resembles the outline of the state of Illinois. The 15-year-old sister said she was stuffing dry Frosted Flakes into her mouth between classes when […]
Smart Company:
Improving the export performance of small and medium sized businesses will be a key focus of a Government review into export policies, under a new issues paper released on the weekend.
The paper was prepared and released by the Mortimer Review, an inquiry into the Government’s export policies and programs launched by Trade Minister Simon […]
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