LONDON (AP) — Five people have been jailed in Britain for pretending to make a Hollywood movie in a scam to defraud tax authorities of millions of pounds. The fraudsters were convicted earlier this month of attempting to bilk the government of 2.8 million pounds ($4.2 million) in a plot reminiscent of the Academy Award-winning [...]

Nestled near the Hudson River on 28th Street in New York, Quirky’s office has all the trappings typically associated with a venture-backed startup: hardwood floors, exposed-brick walls, rows of millennials toiling away on Apple computers, conference rooms cordoned off by panes of glass—and a cocky 20-something founder. But there are also saws, vise grips, levels, [...]

NY’s Quirky makes inventing easy – crainsnewyork.com/article/201303…

Nestled near the Hudson River on 28th Street in New York, Quirky’s office has all the trappings typically associated with a venture-backed startup: hardwood floors, exposed-brick walls, rows of millennials toiling away on Apple computers, conference rooms cordoned off by panes of glass—and a cocky 20-something founder. But there are also saws, vise grips, levels, [...]

NY’s Quirky makes inventing easy – crainsnewyork.com/article/201303…

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Nestled near the Hudson River on 28th Street in New York, Quirky’s office has all the trappings typically associated with a venture-backed startup: hardwood floors, exposed-brick walls, rows of millennials toiling away on Apple computers, conference rooms cordoned off by panes of glass—and a cocky 20-something founder. But there are also saws, vise grips, levels, [...]

Portrait of Henry Ford (ca. 1919) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) A hundred years ago, Detroit was the Silicon Valley of our country. This is where entrepreneurs came to build their fortunes by inventing things. Amazing creativity and entrepreneurship were the status quo – people like Henry Ford came in and did things differently, broke the mold, [...]

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