Houston Chronicle:

Pick a flavor — Rain, Frost, Lemon-Lime, Fierce, AM, Xtremo — and drink a toast today to Dr. Robert Cade, inventor of the concoction once nicknamed “Cade’s Cola” and now known as Gatorade.

Cade died Tuesday in Jacksonville, Fla., from kidney failure. He was 80.

Cade and three colleagues developed Gatorade in 1965 to help the Florida Gators football team replace carbohydrates and electrolytes lost through sweat while playing in the swamp-like heat of Gainesville, Fla. The first batch cost $43 in supplies, and “sort of tasted like toilet bowl cleaner,” Dana Shires, one of Cade’s collaborators, told the Associated Press.

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YoungEntrepreneur:

Here is a great story about a young entrepreneur out of Scotland named Fraser Doherty.

Fraser is an 18 year old student at Strathclyde University and his company, SuperJams, is already a million dollar business.

With his recent success, Fraser is looking to make his studies a part time endeavor while he focuses on building his company. “It’s done a lot better than I expected. It’s growing really fast. The difficult thing is producing enough.”

Fraser sells jams and preserves that target a new, younger audience. They stay true to his grandmother’s original recipe but attract more health-conscious consumers.

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The Dallas Morning News:

Like most CEOs, Justin Avery Anderson keeps an eye on production schedules and inventory, while planning for future expansion.

Unlike many of his counterparts, he’s 20.

Four years ago, when he was a high school junior in Houston, Justin founded Anderson Trail Inc., which makes soft-baked granola. Now, he’s a junior at Texas Christian University in Fort Worth and just secured statewide distribution for his granola in upscale groceries Central Market and Whole Foods.

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DailyBreeze.com:

Hovering over the spinning lathe in their family’s Torrance garage, Cody and Chad Simon whittle away at the small block of wood.

It only takes a few minutes before the sharp corners begin to disappear and the final form begins to take shape. They varnish it and slide metal pieces into place.

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The Wallstreet Journal:

Last year, Dave Novak sold $1.2 million of luxury steam-shower and bath equipment, importing wares from China and reselling systems for $2,500 to $4,000 apiece under his own brands, like American Steam and Rockstar.

And he did it from his 20-month-old son’s bedroom in Fort Wayne, Indiana.

Novak, 27, runs Novak & Co. LLC from home using a MacBook Pro computer and iPhone — leveraging Internet-based tools that make the need for traditional office space increasingly obsolete for many entrepreneurs.

“Most people don’t know I’m based at home,” he says. “There are so many tools out there now that offer a whole other way to live, and I don’t think people understand how great it is.”

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Uncomman Business:

MommyMixer is a networking event that brings together selected university students and parents who need babysitters.

A cost effective alternative to childcare agencies, the events allow parents to interview a number of candidates in an informal setting.

Parents pay a $100 entrance fee. On arrival, they’re handed a ‘Babysitter Book’ containing resumes of all potential hires attending the event, including references and their schedules for the upcoming academic term.

After brief introductions, parents and babysitters are encouraged to mingle and get to know each other. Attendance is limited to twenty to thirty moms and/or dads and the same number of candidates.

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NBC5.com:

It’s the dream of so many moms to start a home business and get rich! A Texas woman is on her way thanks to one of those ideas that makes you say, “Why didn’t I think of that?”

It all started when Amy Long realized she didn’t have enough hands. “I was actually walking through a parking lot with a child on either side and my baby in a sling and my blanket fell off,” said Long.

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ABC:

Surfing can be a risky business. Fly away boards hurt on impact, wetsuits cause rashes and skin isn’t much protection from sharp coral reefs.

Like most surfers, Scott Lambert and his mates had first hand experience with all the various surfing injuries.

So when putting together a medicine kit for his natural medicine studies, then student Scott realised something tailored specifically to surfers might be a seller.

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The Record:

Nine-year-old inventor Leigh Zink got the idea for his Lure Buddy device last year and has since developed a business selling it.

The Lure Buddy is a simple device, but one that solves a couple of problems for avid anglers.

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Santa Cruz Sentinel:

A doodle netted Jared Fiorovich $5,000 and the only person who wasn’t surprised was him.

“I’m always imagining things,” says the 18-year-old Aptos teen who drew a sketch of an iPod shuffle case that doubles as a keychain and bottle opener to win a design competition at the MacWorld show. “Like sometimes I can’t get to sleep and I’ll just jot something down.”

At the design contest set up by 20-year-old whiz kid Ben Kaufman, Fiorovich thought about how, since he used a skateboard as his main form of transportation, he needed to have things compact and efficient so they would fit in his pockets.

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