From Springwise:
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 Springwise featured this week:
Unlimited taxi rides for 48 euros per month
Transportation
Gyms use it, broadband providers use it, DVD rental schemes use it,
subways use it… Now it’s time for taxis. Taxmobil is planning to offer
unlimited taxi use for a EUR 48 monthly fee.
Curated subscription samples the best indie mags
Media & publishing
Focusing on independent magazines, a new service offers a curated
subscription that delivers a sampling of the best indie magazine
issues throughout the year.
Customized couture helmets for the scooter set
Style & design / Transportation
As we like to say, everything can upgraded, and everything can be
personalized. French brand Les Ateliers Ruby already sold bespoke
helmets, and now also offers their high-end service online.
Portable kiosk for mobile brands, roof terrace optional
Marketing & advertising
Consumers have become increasingly mobile and nomadic, so it's
no surprise that brands are doing the same. Helping them get out and
about? Bboxx, a compact and quick to construct mobile kiosk.
Helping consumers manage their loyalty perks
Life hacks / Marketing & advertising
Perkler is an online community "for perks and people who love them,"
giving shoppers a central place online to manage all of their loyalty
and rewards programs.
Free customized travel guides in PDF
Media & publishing / Travel & tourism
No sooner did we cover Offbeat Guides, with its professionally printed
and personalized guidebooks for travellers, than one of our spotters
alerted us to a similar offering out of Austria: Tripwolf.
Balloon-enabled pizza picnic delivery
Food & beverage
We've seen cone-shaped pizzas, super-fast pizzas, pizza vending
machines and pizzas on antique wheels, but it wasn't until recently
that we discovered balloon-enabled pizza picnics.
More co-operative retail for independent designers
Retail
The Beehive Co-op offers craftspeople and designers a retail solution
that’s more substantial than a Sunday market, but less daunting than
the prospect of leasing an entire store.
Voice-to-text church services delivered via email
Media & publishing
Using technology by SpinVox, St. Christopher’s Church in Hinchley
Wood, Surrey, recently gave what SpinVox says was the world's first
voice-to-text service.
Mir:ror gives physical objects digital meaning
Style & design
Here to bring some of the magic of cyberspace into people's physical
lives is Mir:ror, a web-connected dish that gives weird and wonderful
new functions to the objects placed on it.
Heated bus stops offer sympvertising and samples
Marketing & advertising
There's nothing like a little sympathy from a brand to get through to
consumers in a way no mass-media ad can. Kraft Foods is offering
warmth and samples at select Chicago area bus stops.
Recyclable homes made from loofah and corn husks
Eco & sustainability / Homes & housing
Social activist Elsa Zaldivar has found a way to mix loofah with corn
and palm husks into a soup of melted, recycled plastics to form
strong, lightweight panels suitable for use in houses and furniture.
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