5 Top Drone Startups in 2014
5 Forward-flying companies. A sleek aircraft with a not-so-sleek name, drones are the future. Planes that fly themselves via software can be used in agriculture, delivery, data collection, and a number...
View ArticleHow Can Your Small Business Use a 3-D Printer?
In 2013’s State of the Union Address, President Obama said 3-D printing may “revolutionize the way we make almost everything.” To be sure, 2013 and the beginning of ’14 have been heady times for 3-D...
View ArticleAndrea Kihlstedt: 50-plus Entrepreneur
Do What You Do Best: But More of It. For Andrea Kihlstedt, attaining success over the age of 50 was less about re-inventing herself than about reinventing her approach. She didn’t quit a job as a nurse...
View ArticlePitfalls To Avoid When Starting Up
Today’s topic is survival, mortality. It’s about strapping on the Kevlar and loading your weapon for the war ahead. In the face of the doom and gloom statistics about failure rates of businesses, it...
View ArticleIt’s Time To Get Into the Drone Industry
In March of last year, the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International released a report on the economic impact of the drone economy (as you know, “drone” is another way of saying “unmanned...
View ArticleMake Money with a Drone-based Business
There are Many Creative Ways. Little buzzing things in the sky that look like an old-fashioned hobby are called drones, unmanned aircraft. Yes, these are, fundamentally, the same machines as the...
View ArticleBest Home Business, 2014: Start a Daycare Business
Demand will always be there. The idea behind starting a daycare center in your home is letting other people go to an office to work. For a wide variety of economic reasons, more and more women are...
View ArticleThe Story of Alan Martin’s Sidewalk
A Business Born of a Great Idea. A student stands at a kiosk and places an order for a textbook rental. This causes two things: 1) the bookstore staff grabs the book and has it ready for the student...
View ArticleOn-demand Delivery, The Next Generation
Will On-demand Delivery Find a Boom? Technology often drives business, even if the business is…driving. One timely example involves GPS and the on-demand delivery business. The advent of GPS is a...
View ArticleStartup Idea: On-demand Delivery
Many factors are coming together to make this viable. As 2014 turns to 2015, logistics and delivery are on a lot of people’s minds. The idea of selling products at a low rate and then having a hard...
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