Category: innovation

Is Ello The World’s Best Small-Biz Growth-hack?

Ello (the new social network) may be ad-free, but  some founders are already seeing massive profits. Thanks to some clever maneuvering, we estimate that Ello founder Paul Budnitz has made over $250,000 thanks to Ello, by using his founder’s status to promote his other businesses. Ello may just be the greatest small-business growth-hack in history. Your First Friend Being the founder of a social network...

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Someone Finally Fixed The Ice-cream Scooper – Startup Of The Month

Midnight Scooper is the September winner of our “Startup Of The Month” prize. See past winners here. Anyone who has ever scooped ice cream straight out of the freezer, knows the pain of jabbing the scooper in as deeply as you can, chiseling off bits and pieces like a stone-mason. Finally an engineering student from UCSD, Michael Chou, has solved the scooper problem. By adjusting...

Elon Musk, Before Paypal: The Interview You Haven’t Seen…

Elon Musk gives quite the interview today. As the founder of several multi-billion-dollar, revolutionary companies, he’s got a lot to say. It turns out that before Paypal, his first huge win, he had a lot to say as well. This previously buried clip of Elon Musk, gives us insight into the visionary, before his vision for Paypal was fully developed. We hear the full...

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How MTV Managed To Do What Decades of Sex-Ed Teachers Could Not

Should schools replace sex education/health with MTV? Normally, I’d consider this question insane, but after a recent study by the Brookings Institute, I’m not so sure. That study found that MTV’s “Teen Mom”, and “16 And Pregnant” caused a 5.7% drop in the total US teen pregnancy rate. The Brookings Institute made an awesome video to explain how this is possible. MTV managed to...

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How To Build A Toaster In Under Six Months

This is the incredible tale of how one man built a toaster, from all-natural materials, in just six months If humanity stopped, and you were one of the last people on earth, could you rebuild society? Despite all of the technology that we’ve developed throughout history, no individuals possess enough knowledge to rebuild things like radios, and computers, and even toasters from nature, if...