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Espresso Shot Insights: Innovative ideas for home businesses

Written by: Christine Haskell March 9th, 2009
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You just can’t put those grannies in a box.
Swiss Netgranny is a collective of 15 grannies who knit socks on demand and sell them online. Customers can choose their favourite granny from a gallery of ‘Grosis’, which includes information on why the women knit (’not for money, just to pass the time’) or about their professional [...]

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Creative Business Model: Knitting Grannies

Written by: Christine Haskell February 26th, 2009
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Modeled after Swiss and Danish efforts which sell knit goods handmade by real-life grandmothers, French based Golden Hook is a company that lets customers design their own hat and then choose the grandmother they’d like to knit it.
The Concept:

Customers choose a hat—classic, long or Peruvian, with pompom or without.Â
Customer choose a blank hat or one of the [...]

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