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Evaluating a business idea’s “3 M’s” is a good way to quickly separate the good ideas from the bad. Ask yourself these three questions about each of your ideas:
1. Is there a market?
The first step is to determine if there are enough customers willing to buy your product [...]
Telegraph.co.uk:
Since 2002 Tom Burrough, 43, has reinvented himself not once but twice: from well-paid advertising executive to stay-at-home father, and now, as the founder of a baby food company, launched from his kitchen table.
In 2003 Burrough came up with the idea for Burrough’s Baby Food. He has always loved cooking, and remembers making French toast [...]
Springwise:
The best new food & beverage ideas spotted in the last 12 months—smart concepts that will continue to provide entrepreneurs with plenty of opportunities in 2009.
1. Graze — Healthy snacks, delivered by mail in serving sizes
2. Geschmackslabor — Taste lab restaurant lets customers add flavour to their meals
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Entrepreneur:
Q: Where would I begin to start bottling/marketing/selling an amazing salsa?
A: You can start yourself and test the market.
If you can prove you can get sales, the big companies will be interested in your product. You can always go to the “big boys,” but you also have the option of maintaining control and distributing your [...]
Columbus Ledger-Enquirer:
Her Lapper dinner trays have appeared on ABC’s “Good Morning America” and the home-shopping network QVC.
Now entrepreneur Ashley Hatcher is taking her invention before yet another national audience.
She and her non-slip dinner trays will appear on NBC’s “Today” show, during a segment hosted by nationally known marketing guru and TV host Donny Deutsch.
Hatcher has [...]
Capital Press:
They look like pumpkins in the field, and the end product is marketed as “pumpkin seeds,” but technically they are squash and squash seeds.
Despite the elastic terminology, Autumn Seed Inc. has firmed up its grasp on the market in the past 60 years. Howard Ropp’s father started the business back in 1943, producing 100,000 [...]
BBC News:
A Scottish cake maker is hoping to mix it with millionaires with a “revolutionary†take on the wooden spoon – which he insists is NOT a spatula.
Instead, “Spon†inventor Neal Robertson is sending his double-backed spoons to celebrity chefs like Gordon Ramsay and Nigella Lawson in a bid for the baking big time.
“Proud as [...]
For the health conscious who crave a hamburger, they generally find themselves eating a veggie burger instead. Elevation Burger has created a dine-out opportunity for those individuals that want the healthy hamburger instead of that veggie or tofu alternative.
During a time when people care about their own health as well as the well-being of [...]
WBBM Newsradio 780:
A man from the Chicago area who spent much of his life developing new kinds of chewing gum is now using his expertise to help American troops serving in combat.
Retired chewing gum inventor Ron Ream is a former Wrigley Company inventor and Aurora native.
He began working with scientists at a Florida lab some [...]
The Columbia Daily Tribune:
Corey Rimmel turned 21 last Sunday.
Instead of visiting local watering holes with his buddies for a celebratory first legal drink, Corey enjoyed milk and cookies at his newly opened business, Hot Box Cookies.
Corey and co-owners Adam Hendin and David Melnick have barely had a moment to celebrate anything recently. Hot Box Cookies, [...]
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