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Santa Clara-based Playspan has raised venture funding even thought its founder, Arjun Mehta, is in the 6th grade. That’s right, the SIXTH grade! While you have been watching beer bubble in your garage, Arun has been starting a company.
PlaySpan works with games publishers to integrate eCommerce functionality so that they can sell merchandise as well [...]

If you thought my recent “Tins and Fins” post about the $2500 Roddler personified conspicuous consumption, how about this? The luxury unit of Nokia has started selling a phone designed jointly with Ferrari for about 18,000 euros ($25,400) at its stores in London, Paris, Hong Kong and Singapore. Vertu has released the second Ascent made [...]

You might recall that I recently used PikiWiki in Purdue’s ENTR200 class to demonstrate how to do an industry and competitive analysis using Crocs as an example. The  PikiWiki page used in class is here.  www.pikiwiki.com was also used as a 5-minute “standup and discuss” web site which was very well received by my ENTR200 classes. Recently [...]

Put the following into a cell in an Excel spreadsheet: “=77.1*850″ without the quotes. The result, 100,000 instead of the correct 65,535 might surprise you. I’ll leave it as an exercise for the student, as is often stated in geometry proofs, to speculate on the potential impact of such errors. The Evil Empire Strikes! Hank

Are you an individual that needs to have everything? And no, this is NOT conspicuous consumption ala Roddler! This is one gadget you don’t want to miss! The all-in-one home beer brewery was designed and built by Popular Science photographer John Garnett. This device, which has cleverly been named, “The Device”, does it all! It boils, ferments, [...]

After classes on Thursday, October 11, 2007, I will be traveling to the Edward Lowe Foundation’s Billieville Complex in Cassopolis, MI with a  team of four Krannert seniors. While there, teams from Ball State, Butler, U of Evansville, IU, Notre Dame, Rose-Hulman and Purdue will formulate and present a 15-minute “perfect investment pitch” for assigned [...]

Wikipedia states: Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Price is a 2005 documentary film by director Robert Greenwald. The film presents an unfavorable picture of Wal-Mart’s business practices through interviews with former employees, small business owners, and footage of Wal-Mart executives. The film intersperses statistics between the interviews to provide large-scale examinations beyond personal [...]

DEMO, talking place currently in San Diego, is a semi-annual showcasing of seventy startup firms that the organizers have chosen as most promising candidates. They will be given six minutes to make their pitch in front of 700 +/- interested individuals. DEMO’s web site is here: I will be blogging about a few of [...]

KidKustoms has designed a masterpiece, a new custom stroller called “The Roddler” meant for rich kids - er parents. The luxurious stroller has BornRich written all over it. No, it’s not studded with diamonds if that’s what you think! The aircraft-inspired design is constructed likewise to give your little toddler a high. The Roddler [...]