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d_skin: Simple Design, Super Market!

d_skin Protective Disc Skins are laser transparent films that protect your discs even while you play them (or burn them) without affecting music or video quality.
This simple little invention definitely falls under the “why didn’t I think of that?” category. d_skins never have to be removed from your CD’s or DVD’s, they protect your […]

Startups That Came Back From The Dead

Mashable:
There is such a thing as recovery in the world of web 2.0. It doesn’t happen often, but it does happen; sometimes the catalyst is a new feature or option; sometimes the service was simply waiting to be discovered; and sometimes there’s no good reason at all; the tipping point appears out of nowhere.
The five […]

Calling All Inventors

Inventors Digest:
Ingenuity Expo will be held in collaboration with MIT on May 31, 2008 on the MIT campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts. This unique event will bring together inventors, students, and businesses to showcase their innovations, inventions, and ideas to a variety of entrepreneurs, investors, support services and respected journalists.
Attendees have a unique opportunity to experience […]

Scare Prompts Mom To Invent Bracelet

Vancouver Sun:
It took a personal scare five years ago to prompt Sarah Neal to start her new business.
The 42-year-old Nanaimo resident was visiting a busy Calgary shopping mall in 2003 when she looked around and couldn’t see her three-year-old son.
Although the boy had simply wandered off and was found a short time later, the incident […]

Sniffing Out Sales

Fortune Small Business:
Entrepreneur Maria Peevey has gone to the dogs, thanks to Wal-Mart. After the retail giant increased its order of her pet apparel and accessories late last year, annual revenues for Peevey’s San Francisco company, SimplyShe, jumped from $6 million in 2006 to $25 million in 2007.
Peevey, 40, has created children’s and women’s clothing […]

Starbucks Gets The Ideas

Associated Press:
Hundreds of coffee-obsessed consumers chimed in moments after Starbucks Corp. launched a Web site asking customers to pitch changes the company should make to revive its struggling U.S. business.
And they’ve kept those thoughts coming, by the thousands: Create a punch-card system with a free drink after so many purchases. Give people a free cup […]

Go That Extra Mile - Mary Kay Ash

YoungEntrepreneur.com:
Most people live and die with their music still unplayed,” Mary Kay Ash once said. “They never dare to try.” Ash was not one of those people. Raised in a time when few women were in business, let alone successful in business, Ash broke down barriers on her rise up to creating a multi-billion dollar […]

From Stick On Labels to Bottled Water

biz.yahoo.com:
Mark Sikes was selling $700,000 a year in stick-on labels to manufacturers all over the country. But one day it hit him that he could turn his label-brokering expertise into a whole new business: selling bottled water with a custom label plastered on the front.Sikes promptly set up Personalized Bottle Water in a warehouse in […]

Too Expensive to Green Up Your Business?

KiviTV:
Being “green isn’t always easy or cheap. That leaves many environmentally minded people conflicted. “I wanna do the right thing,” explains Jeff Burns, owner of the company Renewable Energy Resources.
Burns believes solar panels are the perfect solution. He recently installed a solar array on the roof of a Nampa eye care office. It’s the largest […]