Fresh Ideas

Okay, usually at this time on this website, I have a recap of Friday Night Marketing News from Mediapost.

Well, at the moment, I'm on a vacation with my wife and sometime Sunday you'll get the recap.

Instead, here are this weeks Fresh Ideas from Springwise.com:

It's time for your weekly fix of entrepreneurial ideas! Our latest issue is now online. Here's
a quick run-down of the promising new businesses featured on Springwise this week:

Healthy snacks, delivered by mail in serving sizes
Food & beverage

A new UK company sells natural and nutritious edibles that are
delivered by mail in just the right sizes, and according to a customer-
defined weekly schedule.

Matching buyers and sellers of cardboard boxes
Life hacks / Eco & sustainability

Anyone who's ever moved has experienced the Quest for Boxes,
involving either significant expense for new shipping boxes or
countless trips to stores and restaurants in search of usable discards.

Hotel helps guests connect online before they arrive
Tourism & travel / Media & publishing

Once they've booked, Pod Hotel's guests are sent a unique user ID
code that allows them to begin communicating with other guests on
the hotel's Pod Culture forum.

Best Buy launches store for and by women
Retail

Gone are the chain's typical warehouse-style blue interiors and metal
shelving, replaced instead by wood panelling, carpets featuring earth
tones and skylights for natural lighting.

Magazine republishes best from other style mags
Media & publishing

A new bimonthly magazine brings together the best content from
lesser-known fashion and style publications from around the world,
enhanced by commentary from renowned creative figures.

New venture makes recommendations across the web
Retail / Media & publishing

While a few stand-alone sites have popped up to connect 'twinsumers'
in specific niches (such as music), a Berlin-based startup aims to give
users recommendations for anything and everything across the web.

Discount seating on empty private jet flights
Travel & tourism

Geneva-based LunaJets takes advantage of the fact that many private
jets fly empty when they return home after dropping passengers off or
when they head out to pick passengers up.

More custom energy bars
Food & beverage

Earlier this year we covered customizable energy bars from Los
Angeles-based YouBar, and recently a similar contender out of the
Midwest crossed our proverbial path.

Eco-friendly pop-up spa
Lifestyle & leisure / Eco & sustainability

No sooner did we cover two mobile bars that popped up in Singapore
than one of our spotters alerted us to yet another pop-up innovation: a
mobile spa that launched at the Toronto International Film Festival.

Video dictionary with a wiki touch
Media & publishing / Education

Inspired by the way Wikipedia changed the encyclopedia with its
online format and user-contributed content, a new digital dictionary
hopes to change the way the world articulates the meanings of words.

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