Oct 15, 2026 | Start A Business
In 1879, a St. Louis chemist named Joseph Lawrence created an alcohol-based antiseptic and named it Listerine, after Joseph Lister, the surgeon who championed sterile surgery. Lawrence first promoted it as a surgical antiseptic. Two years later he licensed the formula...
Oct 15, 2026 | Start A Business
In 2003, three university students in Finland, Niklas Hed, Jarno Väkeväinen and Kim Dikert, won a game development competition and used the win to start a small studio called Relude. Two years later, after bringing in its first angel investor, the company renamed...
Oct 10, 2026 | Start A Business
For years, the core appeal of freelancing was simple, complete autonomy, flexibility, and control over your client roster. As the digital economy has matured, however, many high-performing freelancers have hit a ceiling. Because working as a solo operator inherently...
Oct 8, 2026 | Start A Business
When sales slow down, owners tend to suspect the product. Maybe the service isn’t good enough, the market moved, or the idea was wrong from the start. Sometimes that’s true. But a surprising number of small businesses are selling something people would...
Oct 8, 2026 | Start A Business
During World War I, Kimberly-Clark made a material called Cellucotton, a creped wadding made from wood pulp that was far more absorbent than cotton and cheaper to produce. With cotton in short supply, the military bought it for surgical dressings, and the company...
Oct 8, 2026 | Start A Business
In 1957, an engineer named Al Fielding and a Swiss inventor named Marc Chavannes ran two layers of plastic shower curtain through a heat-sealing machine. The sheet that came out was full of trapped air bubbles. They thought they had invented a new kind of textured...
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