laundry-service

A lot of USA regions regularly suffer from all kind of nature disasters: floods, forest fires, hurricanes etc. On one hand it’s an awful life-threating experience for local citizens, on the other - a worthy chance to earn extra cash.
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Rescue Critters’ dog manikin

What would you say if a friend of yours decides to start a business based on creating life-size models of pets? Seems silly for me… But to Craig Jones, a former emergency response instructor, it made perfect sense!
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wall of the world

On this blog I mainly write about unusual business ideas that were realized in US, UK or Russia as it’s nearly impossible to find something really peculiar in my little country. That’s how I’ve always thought. Turns out that I was totally wrong! There was one business project in Latvia that really deserves a separate post in this blog.
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Teenage millionaires

June 22nd, 2008

How do you imagine a successful businessmen? Probably same as I do – middle aged man in exclusive suite driving his luxurious car on the way to Manhattan. Well, real life sometimes is quiet far from these stereotypes. Here are the stories of businessmen who earned their first million before graduation!
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James Riseborough, the owner of Turtle Transit company, earned $ 2 millions during the past year. You wonder what kind of business idea he used? Well, a very unusual one – he turns usual cars into a moving construction for advertising purposes.
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shoebox with old photos

If you have a dusty shoebox with old photos waiting to be systematized, then Ron Bell is the guy you need! A 22 year old student of Business and Finance University started a small business – he picks ups your photos, scans and digitizes them on CDs.
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