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When Seth Berkowitz was a junior at the University of Pennsylvania, he started baking cookies for friends out of his dorm. Soon, he noticed a trend: students got hungry late at night and there wasn’t any delivery alternative to greasy and heavy food. Berkowitz wondered, “Why not hot cookies and milk – delivered to your door after midnight?”
When inventor Doug Vick got up in the middle of the night and bumped into the bedpost, he wondered, “How many other people do this every night?”
So he invented high-quality double-lined fleece slippers with a weight sensor in the sole, a light sensor on the side, and an LED light in the toe.
In the latest episode of the Why Didn’t I Think of That? ® Podcast, Bob Smith and Greg Anastos sit down with thinkofthat.net blogger Benjamin Christopher and discuss the first of their Axioms For Entrepreneurs, “Re-think Your Industry.”
The Why Guys explore how companies like Netflix, Apple, Xerox, and General Motors were able to look at their industries, and their companies, in a new light.
Richard James was working at a Philadelphia shipyard and was looking for a way to keep nautical instruments stable in rough seas. That’s when a torsion spring fell off the shelf. Richard watched the spring crawl down shelves, stacks of books and tabletops, and land upright on the floor. Suddenly, he had a great idea…
Why do candles all have such “girly smells,” 14-year-old Hart Main asked his younger sister, who was selling the candles for a school fundraiser. Main thought why not have smells that guys would like, like fresh cut grass, bacon, sawdust and leather. So, with a $100 investment, and his heart set on buying a brand new bike, this young man invented a whole new kind of candle: the ManCan.
What they do:
Holiday house decorating and support products.
Inspiration:
Decorating houses at Christmas was such a fun job for Jamie Limber that he decided to make it his career.
About the business:
The company markets a complete line of holiday decorating products sold at Home Depot and Target. Sales: $8 Million+.
We’re already in the second week of December! I for one have been so busy lately that I not only missed out on the Black Friday and Cyber Monday hoopla, but I still haven’t done any Christmas shopping! I have a feeling that I’m not the only one, so I thought I’d provide you, dear readers, [...]
Whether you go out and spend a little extra cash at a small business today or not, “Small Business Saturday” is as good a time as any for a little reflection. So today, we’re taking a moment to think about the companies that (quietly) make this country tick.
The big tablet computer is the Apple iPad. But there’s a dark horse rising in the form of Samsung’s Galaxy Tab.
Most people don’t take Thanksgiving very seriously. I do. I’m not sure why. It isn’t the food or the rituals. It isn’t the “origins” story as it were–the Pilgrims and Native Americans feasting together for the first time. And, as this is my first Thanksgiving thousands of miles away from my family, I realize it’s [...]
How one man turned a college job decorating houses for the holidays into his life’s work.
