Ideas & Opportunities
Mobile swimming pool
Mobile swimming pool. As soon as the idea came to me I knew it was a bad one. It’s very funny though.
Opportunities for Nanomaterials as Conductive Coatings
Recently completed market analysis conducted by NanoMarkets and published in our recent study, “Conductive Coatings Markets: 2009 and Beyond” indicate that by far the fastest growing opportunity in the conductive coatings market at the present time lies in the area of nanomaterials. While negligible in 2009, NanoMarkets expects sales of conductive coatings using nanomaterials to [...]
Bay Sellers Challenge to Spark Entrepreneurial Spirit
eBay launched the eBay Sellers Challenge, a unique initiative with a simple goal: empower and inspire entrepreneurs to grow existing businesses – or start new ones – on eBay. The Sellers Challenge asks entrepreneurs to answer a simple question: “How would you use $25,000 to grow – or start – an eBay business?” Four winners [...]
Run Cheap TV Commercials with Google TV Ads
With Google’s TV ad service, small companies can buy low-cost TV commercials on national cable channels With nearly $18 million in annual revenue and 31 employees, ShoppersChoice.com, a Baton Rouge company that operates a handful of e-commerce sites, is substantial — but it’s no Wal-Mart. Yet for just $2,500 to $3,500 a week, commercials for [...]
Trips to barbershop inspired entrepreneur
Brian Egeston of Stone Mountain grew up with a truck driver dad who was happy with what he had. Egeston grew into a man who was always looking for something better. An entrepreneur, a dreamer. Someone crazy enough, in a bad economy and with a newborn son, to start a free local magazine about barbershops. [...]
Invitation-Only Social Network for Real Estate
Social networks and interactive Web 2.0 technologies have become dominant features of social life and news lately, and millions regularly spend hours each month on sites like Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn. One startup company with a selective vision for a real estate investor oriented social network decided to focus on the quality of members as [...]
Nintendo Goes to School: DS Classroom Turns Handheld Console Into Teaching Tool
Nintendo, never content to create gaming products that are simply for gaming, is taking its portable DS system to school. Partnering with program developer Sharp System Products, the company that turned the Wii into a home gym is debuting Nintendo DS Classroom, a program that will help educators in Japan communicate with students through Nintendo’s [...]
