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Video exclusive! Watch the U.S. Mint make new Yosemite quarter
6:00AM 6/30/2010
We've got another video exclusive on WalletPop.com today. I'm taking you where the general public is not allowed to go: onto the manufacturing floor of the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia, where the newest 25-cent piece, the America the Beautiful Yosemite quarter, is being produced. It comes out on July...
Date this guy or give him money? Barbara Corcoran weighs in
7:00AM 6/09/2010
In the latest installment of Barbara Corcoran's Practical Magic on WalletPop, our advice-seeker desperately needs Barbara to help cut through the crap. Ross Felix has started a new dating site, but he can't stop speaking in jargon, using weightless terms like "bootstrapped" and "gain critical...
The Library of Congress recently made headlines by announcing an unusual acquisition: every public tweet ever sent on Twitter. Cleverly, it made the announcement by Twitter -- and the interest brought the library's servers to a standstill. For all that, the IT guys in charge of keeping every tweet...
AfterShark: Student gets schooled over his Factionist clothing line, but gets a job
1:01AM 1/16/2010
Shopping, Failed Products, Careers, Retail, Video, Saving Money
Last night on Shark Tank, Nate Berkopec, a 19-year-old New York University student originally from Minnesota, dared to take his six-month-old environmentally conscious clothing line, The Factionist, into the Tank.
"It's really easy to do your market research if you are the market," he proclaimed...
AfterShark: How the guys from JumpForward made $600,000 in 10 minutes
12:02AM 10/21/2009
On last night's season finale of ABC's Shark Tank, two guys walked in the door with empty pockets and walked out with $600,000. Just who out-sharked whom here? Brian Duggan and Adam McCombs were willing to give the Sharks 10% of their company, JumpForward, in exchange for "only" $150,000. Their...
Time was, pinning down Jason Cochran meant playing a serious game of "Where's Jason?" The travel writer for outlets such as Frommer's.com and Budget Travel magazine was never in one place very long.
These days he's easier to locate, based at AOL headquarters in New York City, writing travel and...
Today on AfterShark: student Sawyer Sparks and his $300,000 idea
12:03AM 9/30/2009
Sawyer Sparks, a 22-year-old college student from Purdue University, walked into the Shark Tank last night with a bright idea: modeling dough that kids with wheat allergies can use. On paper, that sounds like a pretty weak concept, but bet you didn't know that one out of eight kids has that...
Later today, on our special AfterShark page, WalletPop's Jason Cochran will bring us a Skype interview of two steel-nerved businessmen, Paul Watts and Kwame Kuadey, who both stood up to the cutthroat investors on ABC's Shark Tank last night -- with very different results. Paul Watts used to work...
WalletPop and AOL Small Business produce new series: AfterShark
7:30PM 8/06/2009
Wealth, Technology, Economy, People, Video, Banking, Saving Money
WalletPop's Jason Cochran will be hosting interviews each week with the entrepreneurs and "sharks" from ABC's new series, Shark Tank. You can get all the action (live action video!) on our new AfterShark page. For the first one, Jason sits down with two of the Sharks, the take-no-prisoners...
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