Entrepreneur
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Coworking spaces are becoming very popular with the generations born after 1981. Small Business Trends report that over 2,000 coworking spaces were opened in 2018 alone and nearly half of them were in the United States. To date, it is estimated that there are currently more than 18,000 coworking spaces worldwide. This shift in how people…
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When Mike Vetter’s dream of owning a Lamborghini didn’t come to fruition, he built one himself. Now he earns a living making his own supercars. The 8000 square foot converted airplane hangar in Florida is littered with giant styrofoam blocks, fiberglass molds, sheet metal, and the guts of chopped up chassis. These components will be…
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Ana Gavia, 26, never intended to become a full-time entrepreneur. Looking for a way to make money while studying podiatric medicine at La Trobe University in Australia, she decided to start a side hustle selling a bathing suit she designed on the internet. She’d grown up on a coastal beach town and had always had…
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With apps like Seamless, UberEats and Deliveroo, the food delivery market is thriving. But it turns out the process of registering a new restaurant on these apps might not be as stringent as you’d expect. London based Josh Pieters demonstrated how people who think they’re ordering from an established Italian restaurant could end up with a microwave dinner. Pieters and two buddies…
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Robert Kearns, 35, who had a blind left eye, had trouble seeing the road with traditional windscreen wipers. In 1962, he had a brainstorm… “what if a windshield wiper paused between each wipe, like a blinking eye? At this time, wipers only had two settings (one for light rain and one for heavy rain). At…