Next Little Thing: Where are they now?
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Fortune Small Business
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Tue 10:42 am ET Flat World Knowledge: In March online textbook provider Flat World Knowledge raised $8 million in venture capital. That's a good sign, says co-founder Eric Frank: "Despite the economic doom and gloom, good ideas still get funding."
K9 Storm adds eyes to its armor for police dogs
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Fortune Small Business
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Mon 1:53 pm ET It's a tough world for man's best friend. Patrol dogs dodge bullets every day at home and risk their lives sniffing out trouble in Iraq and Afghanistan.
A cheaper way to scan for cancer
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Fortune Small Business
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Mon 1:44 pm ET Greg Colip had a comfortable life as a Houston attorney specializing in the oil-and-gas industry. He never thought he'd become an expert in cancer screening. That changed when a friend arranged a quick chat with Jerry Bryant, a local scientist, in a hotel lobby.
From beer sludge to fish flakes
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Fortune Small Business
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Mon 1:44 pm ET Andrew Logan has what every manufacturer craves: an endless source of free raw materials that his suppliers can't wait to dump and a market starving for his product.
Ice³ offers campers a cooler ice cooler
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Fortune Small Business
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Mon 1:42 pm ET Many experienced campers have had food ruined by melted ice in a cooler. Most get over it. But when it happened to Canadian robotics lab technician Paul Lavallee on a trip to Alberta's Red Deer River, he vowed to make a better kind of cooler.
Next Little Thing: Where are they now?
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Fortune Small Business
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Mon 1:41 pm ET Flat World Knowledge: In March online textbook provider Flat World Knowledge raised $8 million in venture capital. That's a good sign, says co-founder Eric Frank: "Despite the economic doom and gloom, good ideas still get funding."
Coming in 2010: Wireless electricity and psychic video games
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Mon 1:40 pm ET Wireless electricity. Invisible loudspeakers. A library on a sheet of paper. A mind-reading headset. Meet the entrepreneurs launching all this and more in 2010.
How an indie filmmaker cut out the middleman
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Mon 9:21 am ET To get her documentary Ten9Eight into theaters, Mary Mazzio made a pioneering deal with movie chain AMC.
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