Mark Hendrickson writing in the 12/29/07 edition of TechCrunch, provided the following listing of companies that entered their “DeadPool” in 2007. It is included in this blog for future reference for Purdue University entrepreneurship students studying “Failure Cases.” Unlike some of the comments to this entry, we do dissect why firms fail as part of [...]

The Magic Fur Ball - Patented, allergy-free alternative to fabric softener! via kwout
Click on the link above and see
for yourself what the
Magic Fur Ball is all about.
He needs the shrill that is always on TV hustling one thing or
another who always ends his spiel with
“Wait, order now and get…..”
It even has patent protection
Hank

Janet Rae-Dupree writing in today’s NYTimes, has a great article with the above title about innovation that entrepreneurs should read. It starts off:
“IT’S a pickle of a paradox: As our knowledge and expertise increase, our creativity and ability to innovate tend to taper off. Why? Because the walls of the proverbial box in which [...]

Mark Cuban, aside from being a billionaire, is a character. This is what vator.tv linked here: had to say about Cuban:
Lessons Learned: Mark Cuban advises entrepreneurs to do their homework
by John Shinal submitted December 20, 2007
“Mark Cuban belongs to a very select group of entrepreneurs who built a company with the right technology at the [...]

From here: This is an interview with the genius who designed the shell for the OLPC-XO computer:

This entry could be labeled “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly,” but not in that order.
The Bad:
When I ordered the magicJack, I popped for two day delivery. I received almost immediate email confirmation of my order, and later that day that it had shipped. It wasn’t until about four business days later that [...]

OLPC on eBay
Barely after they were released and in the hands of “customers,” OLPCs are hitting eBay at prices that will return those who coughed up $399 a nice profit. You may call this being an entrepreneur, but I call it greed. Why not donate the proceeds, which a few are doing, or donate back [...]

Navy’s Combat Casualty Care Office in DC.
They administer to the most severely wounded Sailors.
It is a hand written note on the door of a SEAL who took a round from a AK-47 to his face and arm.
 

If only Purdue student entrepreneurs had this grit! Hank

By FRANK BAJAK
The Associated Press Monday, December 24, 2007; 2:41 PM
ARAHUAY, Peru — Doubts about whether poor, rural children really can benefit from quirky little computers evaporate as quickly as the morning dew in this hilltop Andean village, where 50 primary school children got machines from the One Laptop Per Child project six months ago. [...]

Fon
You pay for internet access at home, so why must you pay for it again at the coffee shop, the airport and the hotel? That frustration spawned Spanish Wi-Fi startup Fon. It’s a simple idea: Give and you shall receive. “Foneros” first agree to share their home wireless connections with other Fon customers using [...]