YOUR WEEKLY FIX OF ENTREPRENEURIAL IDEAS We’ve selected 15 new business ideas this week that will provide entrepreneurs with plenty of inspiration. Spotted from countries all around the world, these ideas offer a taste of what’s to come.

2. YOUR WEEKLY FIX OF ENTREPRENEURIAL IDEAS
10-16 April 2014

3. Top 10 business ideas & opportunities for 2014
We’ve selected 15 new business ideas that will provide
entrepreneurs with plenty of inspiration. Spotted from
countries all around the world, these ideas offer a taste of
what’s to come.
YOUR WEEKLY FIX OF ENTREPRENEURIAL IDEAS
10-16 April 2014

4. Buying a home is already the largest
single purchase many will every make in
their lifetime, without taking into account
all of the accoutrements that come with
furnishing and decorating it. We’ve seen a
number of businesses offering extras
along with properties in recent times,
including Canada’s World Housing,
which builds a home for a family in need
for every property bought. Now, Brazil’s
newly-designed Huma Klabin
construction is offering every resident a
complementary fold-up bike.
Read more about Huma Klabin »
1. Buy an apartment in this Brazil complex, get a free USD 1,000
bike

5. Books still play a major part in the
development of children’s understanding
of the world, of which new digital
technologies are most definitely now a
part. We recently wrote about MakerBot’s
LEO the Maker Prince kids’ book, which
teaches readers about 3D printing, and
now Hello Ruby is another title — this
time designed to appeal to girls — that
hopes to get them inspired by the web
and programming.
Read more about Hello Ruby »
2. Kids’ book teaches young girls to code

6. Getting consumers to exercise is already
a difficult task and it isn’t helped by the
typically high entry prices of gyms and
workout sessions. While the world is
suffering from inactivity and obesity, gyms
are raking in over $75 billion globally.
Ideas such as Peloton‘s live gym class
streaming enable exercisers to work out
at home, but now San Francisco’s Fitmob
is aiming to incentivize fitness class
attendance by cutting the price for every
extra session taken each week.
Read more about Fitmob »
3. Gym classes cost less the more users work out

7. This is part of a series of articles that looks at
entrepreneurs hoping to get their ideas off the
ground through crowdfunding.
At the time of writing, each of these
innovations is currently seeking funding.
As most homeowners know, putting
together flatpack furniture is never as
easy as it should be, which is why
innovators are always trying to come up
with new methods of assembly, such as
the Netherlands’ MAGfurniture magnetic
clip furniture. Now OLLA has created
furniture easy enough to assemble that
kids can do it themselves.
Read more about OLLA »
4. Life-size Lego-style blocks let kids create their own bedroom
furniture

8. Services such as Instacart are already
enabling consumers to have supermarket
food arrive at their door in under and hour
using TaskRabbit-style crowdsourced
helpers, a new company called
FreshRealm is hoping to cut out the
middle man altogether, using the United
States Postal Service to deliver food
straight from producers to consumers.
Read more about FreshRealm »
5. USPS food delivery from farm to table in 2 days

9. The weather can often have a big impact
on whether alarm clocks are effective at
getting us out of bed — if it’s raining
outside maybe it would be better to hit the
snooze button. While in the past we’ve
seen UNIQLO launch its Wake Up
app, which prompts users with musical
alerts tailored to the weather, now outdoor
sportswear brand Helly Hansen has
created First Tracks, an app for extreme
sports enthusiasts that wakes them up
earlier if it’s snowed during the night.
Read more about First Tracks »
6. Alarm clock app wakes up skiers early if there’s fresh snowfall

10. For those in the Northern Hemisphere, flu
season is still in full swing and it’s still a
common sight to see some city dwellers
donning surgical masks to protect them
from bugs. While those masks might be
effective, many consumers find them
unappealing. Enter Scough, a designer
scarf that looks stylish while also using
antimicrobial technology to keep germs
out.
Read more about Scough »
7. Stylish scarf could stop you getting a flu

11. Although we think of taste as a separate
sense to smell, the two are closely
intertwined when it comes to food, and
most of the subtle flavors we experience
when we eat are detected by the nose.
Taking this onboard, the AROMAFORK is
an aroma-emitting device that enables
chefs to serve up more complicated
flavors than they can get from food alone.
Read more about AROMAFORK »
8. Smell-emitting fork lets chefs and amateurs play with molecular
gastronomy

12. Sports injuries come in all shapes and
sizes, and even when it’s clear where the
pain is, it’s much more difficult to
determine the cause. While innovations
such as the Sensoria smart sock have
already been able to detect bad running
habits, the new OpenGo science is an
insole that fits discreetly into athletes’
shoes and delivers rich data to sports
scientists.
Read more about OpenGo science »
9. This ultra-thin insole can tell doctors what’s wrong with your
foot

13. Digital publications are still trying to find
their feet when it comes to creating a
financially successful business model, and
in recent times we’ve seen both Offline
and Uncoverage try out monthly longform
pieces and crowdfunding models
respectively. From the
Netherlands, Blendle now wants to create
a single subscription platform for the
country’s multiple newspapers, with users
paying for what they read.
Read more about Blendle »
10. Blendle is an iTunes for newspaper articles

14. The web has now become a great tool for
learning — whether through Wikipedia or
YouTube tutorials — but these channels
sometimes lack the kind of interactivity of
the physical classroom, where teachers
can offer encouragement or help children
work their way through a math calculation
they’re stuck on. Aiming to replicate this,
Oppia is a new open-source platform
from Google that lets anyone create
interactive online learning activities that
give feedback at every step.
Read more about Oppia »
11. Open-source educational quizzes aim to teach without the teacher

15. We’ve already seen smart heating
systems such as the Nest thermostat, that
can help homeowners cut their heating
bills through smart settings and enabling
users to control it remotely. For the
summer months, Aros is an air
conditioning unit that offers automated
control as well as allowing users to
monitor their usage..
Read more about Aros »
12. Wifi-connected A/C unit is controlled via smartphone

16. The internet is a great tool for researching
the many different holiday options
available to travelers, but it can be easy to
spend hours trawling different sites and
not get any closer to booking. We’ve
recently seen a number of apps that do
the legwork for holiday planning, such as
Hitlist — which offers up destination
ideas based on users’ interests. Now,
Netherlands-based Voyando lets experts
compete to provide personalized travel
tips for holidaymakers.
Read more about Voyando »
13. Site gets travel experts bidding to deliver package holidays for
tourists

17. Over recent years, we’ve seen a number
of mobile apps that help users identify
fashions from a number of different
sources so they can buy them, such as
ASAP54, Keep and Snap Fashion. Now
a new France-based site called
Selectionnist is doing the same for print
media, enabling magazine readers to
shop any product found inside a number
of major titles.
Read more about Selectionnist »
14. Site lets consumers buy any product featured in print magazines

18. Regular readers of Springwise will have
recently seen our coverage of Nuvino
and Spotwine — two companies offering
wine in convenient individual pouches for
those on the go. Single-serve containers
are also useful for getting a taste of a
particular brand without investing in a full
bottle, and Wineist — a new subscription
service from Slovenia — is taking
advantage by enabling curated wine
tasting sessions at home.
Read more about Wineist »
15. Curated subscription service enables wine tasting events at home

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