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Crowd Power

Posted on: Tuesday, August 28th, 2007 in: Innovation, Environmental

 
The number of eco-businesses and green business sprouting up around the world is very uplifting as-well is the welcome grants and funding been thrown at some of these excellent ideas.
So here is an excellent invention which turns the energy people create as they walk, run and otherwise go about their daily activities into electricity - […]

Mind Spa

Posted on: Tuesday, August 28th, 2007 in: Innovation, One to watch

 
OK so the UK has seen its fair share of gyms and health clubs sweeping the nation, they have absolutely everything in them from swimming pools, spa’s, weights, aerobics, keep fit, step, martial arts and even herbal treatments, hey even bars!
But here is a new business concept that is currently taking the states by storm, […]

Power in the workplace

Posted on: Monday, August 27th, 2007 in: Laugh, Business Development

 
After meeting up with a friend this weekend the conversation turned to business, my friend runs a facilities management company and although he has been going only 2 years has 4 blue chip clients he looks after.
His business has just gone through quite a tough expansion phase over the past 6 months and to keep […]

Airbus A380 seats auctioned off on eBay

Posted on: Monday, August 27th, 2007 in: News

Singapore Airlines will auction off Airbus A380 seats on eBay with the proceeds going to charity.
The Airbus A380 is a double-deck, four-engined airliner manufactured by EADS (Airbus S.A.S.). As the largest passenger airliner in the world, the A380 made its maiden flight on 27 April 2005 from Toulouse, France, and is scheduled to begin commercial […]

Bullet Proof Kids bags???

Posted on: Sunday, August 26th, 2007 in: News, One to watch

I guess its sad it has come to this, that somebody has noticed a niche in protecting kids from getting shot. After all the school shootings and the relaxed gun laws in the USA 2 concerned Massachusetts dads Mike Pelonzi and Joe Curran have introduced a carry-all that comes with bulletproof lining.
“Affordable, lightweight defense for […]

MFG.com eBay for Manufacturing

Posted on: Saturday, August 25th, 2007 in: One to watch, The Internet

Here is a good web 2.0 business i have been made aware of from an event i attended last week, MFG.com is rapidly becoming the eBay of manufacturing. In the past 12 months, $2 billion worth of gears, molds and machined parts were sourced and traded on the site. To participate, sellers pay an annual […]

A Womans Touch

Posted on: Friday, August 24th, 2007 in: One to watch

 
UKpreneur catches up with Kerrie Keeling to find out how she left the City to start ‘A Womans Touch’
With a paintbrush in one hand and a spirit level in the other, Kerrie Keeling has found her place in an industry dominated by men.
Her company A Woman’s Touch consists almost entirely of women. Plumbers, painters, electricians […]

Serial Success

Posted on: Thursday, August 23rd, 2007 in: Inspiration

 
Whats the secret to serial success in some entrepreneurs? It can take a life time, a trail of failed attempts and a load of money before some people bring an indea to market or a business to success, others just keep doing it.
Take these two Toms for instance, five years ago, Tom Scott and Tom […]

STABLEtable goes WobbleWizard in the US

Posted on: Thursday, August 23rd, 2007 in: One to watch

 
A Scottish entrepreneur rejected by the Dragons Den is launching his product the STABLEtable in the states but under the new name of the WobbleWizard. Reports say that his business has turned over £1 million in the 3 years since launching.
His gadget stops wobbly and uneven tables, it can be adjusted depending on how wobbly […]

‘Queen of Mean’ has died

Posted on: Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007 in: News

 
I remember watching a documentary on this lady some years ago now, i couldn’t sleep, i came down stairs and stuck the TV on to find it just starting.
The ‘Queen of Mean’ is Leona Helmsley was a billionaire New York City hotel operator and real estate investor. She was a flamboyant personality and had a […]