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How Our Sustainable Corporate Merchandising Became a $40K/Month Business

Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?My name is Gonzalo and with my partner Gala, we run a business called Sheedo. Our main product is a paper made out of waste cotton from the clothing industry, so we don’t cut trees or use toxic chemicals in our production line…

This researcher studied 400,000 knitters and discovered what turns a hobby

An MIT Sloan Ph.D. candidate discovered what turned skilled hobbyists into entrepreneurs.

The Hidden Patterns of Great Startup Ideas

5 frameworks to help Founders coming up with a new startup idea that is the most likely to lead to a transformative company.

That Time a Guy Cornered the Liquid Soap Market by Sneakily Buying Nearly Every Hand Soap Pump Available in the World

Robert R. Taylor is a name you’ve probably never heard before. But this serial entrepreneur made his mark on the world of business by coming up with several products you are almost certainly very familiar with. Today we’re going to talk about, on the surface, the most boring of…

Startup idea checklist | defmacro

I’ve been tinkering with different startup ideas and needed a good checklist to think through them. There are great templates for this already: The YC application, Amazon’s internal press release, and Sequoia’s Writing a Business Plan. I found myself mixing and tweaking these…

The Camera as the App Layer

Your phone increasingly knows what you’re taking a picture of. And which apps you have installed. So…

Markets To Build In (2019)

Nine interesting markets to track in 2019.

Ideas are Easy, Sorting them is Hard

Why we should ask people to submit problems, not ideas

Come for the tool, stay for the network

Chris Dixon's blog.

I make up to $6,000 a day writing quotes on Instagram — here's how

Insider gathered advice from successful entrepreneurs on turning passions into profitable businesses.

Project Repat: $10MM Business Making Quilts From Old T-Shirts

Hello! Who are you and what are you working on?My name is Ross Lohr, and I’m a co-founder of Project Repat. We make it easy and affordable for customers to turn their memorable t-shirts into a one of a kind, custom t-shirt quilt backed with cozy fleece. People buy quilts from…

How Much Energy Can You Store in a Stack of Cement Blocks?

It's not a trick question: You can make a battery out of concrete by storing gravitational potential energy.

The founder of Pinboard on why understanding fandom is good for business -

Maciej Cegłowski found fans where they were, and won their hearts

Service as a SKU | Andreessen Horowitz

Editor’s note: This article by now-a16z general partner Alex Rampell was originally published in 2012 in TechCrunch. The biggest ecommerce opportunity today involves taking offline services and offering them for sale online (O2O commerce). The first generation of O2O commerce…

How to Downsize a Transport Network: The Chinese Wheelbarrow - LOW-TECH MAG

Starting An Amazon FBA Business - Starter Story

Hello! Who are you and what are you working on?My name is Raymond Furgason, and I am the Creator and Founder of Carbage Can. The Carbage Can is a car trash can. It’s so easy to gather common trash in your vehicle - tissues, food wrappers, receipts, coffee cups… the list is…

The Infinite Memo

From the makers of this incredibly clever wearable memo, the Wemo is back with an entirely new look. The Wemo 2 takes on a flat form that you can stick on any surface, transforming it into a doodle or memo pad in seconds. Slap it on your laptop to take notes during meets or on

This technology could fundamentally change our relationship to electricity

An “operating system” for power could double the efficiency of the grid.

codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x: Master programming by recreating your favorite technologies from scratch.

Master programming by recreating your favorite technologies from scratch. - codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x

How to come up with profitable online business ideas

Why Is the Live-Event Ticket Market So Screwed Up? - Freakonomics Freakonom

How To Tell If Someone Is Truly Smart Or Just Average

Author’s Note: This article was written over 60 hours with love and care using the blockbuster mental model. If you like my writing style…

Steven Johnson: Where good ideas come from | TED Talk | TED.com

People often credit their ideas to individual "Eureka!" moments. But Steven Johnson shows how history tells a different story. His fascinating tour takes us from the "liquid networks" of London's coffee houses to Charles Darwin's long, slow hunch to today's high-velocity web.

How to Make Almost Anything

This course provides a hands-on introduction to the resources for designing and fabricating smart systems, including CAD/CAM/CAE; NC machining, 3-D printing, injection molding, laser cutting; PCB layout and fabrication; sensors and actuators; analog instrumentation; embedded…