An Army man of eight years, Ron Johnson figures there is a right way and a wrong way to do just about everything.

So when he started his own business after being laid off from 25 years in the telecommunication industry, Johnson read everything he could about his new field and exhaustively researched the competition.

Then he named his business Ron John Poo-B-Gone. read all »

Mold can be a terrible problem and something that no one wants in their home. 1-800-GOT-MOLD? can take care of that problem. Using rescued Labrador Retrievers, the dogs are trained to sniff out hidden mold so it can be taken care of. read all »

When Swiss dairy farmer Paul Wyler and his wife Helga, were unable to sell as much cheese as they produced each year, they hit upon a great idea. ‘Why not rent our cows?’

A rent-a-cow business was born and the Wylers, who run a 50-head farm in the Brienz area, managed to rent some of their cows to a few local restaurants. read all »

Eric Nakagawa, a software developer in Hawaii, posted a single photo of a fat, smiling cat he found on the Internet, with the caption, “I can has cheezburger?” in January, 2007, at a web site he created. It was supposed to be a joke.

Soon after he posted a few more images in the same vein: cute cats with funny captions written in a silly, invented hybrid of Internet shorthand and baby-talk.

Then he turned the site into a blog, so that visitors could comment on the postings. What happened after that would have been hard for anyone to predict.

“We just thought, O.K., they’re funny,”Nakagawa says. “Suddenly we started getting hits. I was like, where are these coming from?” read all »

An American company, Flexpetz, started quite a bizarre, but yet interesting service: to “rent” a dog for few hours per day or few days per week. The owners of this company declare that it’s a unique concept for dog lovers who are unable to own a full-time doggy pal and miss spending time with a canine friend. read all »