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Woman’s Trash Is Inventor’s Lawn Treasure

Deidre Booker works hard during the planting season tending her mums, pansies and marigolds in the front yard and a garden of herbs, tomatoes, cabbage and peppers in her backyard, writes The Sun Times

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So when Booker heard about the “Glam Can” — a black, 3-gallon, mount-anywhere garbage a...

Inventor Credited With 405 Patents

Inventors are made, not born, and anyone has the potential to come up with new ideas, said Jack Mandelman, a retired electrical engineer, in a story in The Times-News.

He should know. Many people have never heard of the Flat Rock resident, but every time they turn on their computer or use a cel...

Mom Uses Franchise To Cater Underserved Market

Suzanne Plafcan couldn’t find real-estate space for her Clix Portrait Studio franchise right away, reports Entrepreneur.

So instead of waiting, she opened just the event-photography side of the business in March 2008. “It turned out to be the best thing I could have ever done,” she says. I...

Cakes Might Not Be Real, But Money Is

Kimberly Aya’s career choice was an easy one. When she was just 8 years old, she started designing cakes for her chocolate-loving father–and she hasn’t stopped since, according to a story in Entrepreneur magazine.

So her first order of business upon returning home to Michigan was to open a...

Turn Over A Few More Rocks

TerryStarbucker had been thinking about looking under rocks for several weeks lately – I always worry about complacency, and it was a perfect analogy for me. Because there’s always a better way to do something – or a better way to analyze something – or present something. The minute ...