You’ll never know dear
How much I love you
So please don’t take
My sunshine away
The Smartphone Six-Pack
A half-dozen free apps to help you find and share great craft beer
BY JOHN PATRICK PULLEN
These days, whether enjoying a quiet pint at home or a night out with friends, most people have an ever-ready, beer-drinking buddy—their smartphone—by their side. Always up for a conversation or down for playing a game, mobile devices, when equipped with the right apps, have become increasingly beer savvy in the past couple of years. In particular, these six services have helped turn handhelds into Swiss Army knives for suds, keeping users in the know when it comes to craft beer and where to find it.
Read more at Beer West…
The Next Mogul
Jeremy Bloom—a former Olympic skier, NFLer, Abercrombie model, MTV VJ, and ESPN analyst—seems like he can do anything. But in starting his own business, he may be risking everything.
Jeremy Bloom has had his ups and downs. A world-champion skier, he missed his shot at Olympic gold. As an all-American football player, he saw his collegiate career put to a halt by the NCAA; then, sidelined by injuries, he spent a frustratingly brief period with the NFL. He has dabbled in modeling and TV presenting. Now, the golden boy may have finally found his footing, in what once would have seemed an unlikely arena: entrepreneurship.
Only took me a year and a half to frame! (at Portland, Oregon)
If this is the first day of spring looks like, bring on the summer. (at Portland, Oregon)
A Man of His Convictions
Dave’s Killer Bread knows former felons aren’t always bad seeds— that’s why they’ve hired dozens of them.
Six feet tall with the proportions of an action figure, Dave Dahl has arms thicker than most people’s legs, a snowplow of a jaw, long hair and a chest that looks overstuffed with pride. As he swaggers through the bakery of his Milwaukie, Ore.-based company, Dave’s Killer Bread, it’s easy to imagine him walking around a prison courtyard—a circuit Dahl has walked many times.
Played out.
A Golden Opportunity
Charles Anderson wasn’t the first to fuel vehicles with straight vegetable oil, but he’s become a pioneer at monetizing it.
BY JOHN PATRICK PULLEN 
Danger is not Charles Anderson’s middle name. That became clear one night behind a catfish-fry house in Mount Home, Ark., when the eatery’s owner pulled a gun on him. “He was going to get me for stealing his oil,” says Anderson, founder of Golden Fuel Systems, which makes straight vegetable oil (SVO) conversion kits for diesel vehicles.
CES 2013: 5 Tech Startups Worth Watching
LAS VEGAS — Every year, hundreds of thousands of people flock to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) to see what tech inventions might change the world. But this year — as the event gets under way here tomorrow — attendees will also be on the lookout for new, innovative companies, as the annual tradeshow will feature more first-time exhibitors than ever before.
Compared to last year, 40 percent more entrepreneurs and small businesses will be showing their wares here, with 140 companies promoting everything from apps to earphones in a special, startup-only exhibit area known as “Eureka Park.” Here, we’ve hand-selected five of the most interesting startups exhibiting in Eureka Park whose products look particularly promising:
Sphero: One Year Later
My favorite thing about CES 2013: seeing previous year’s startups return as successful, thriving companies. This year, Sphero turned heads with a great booth, full of interactive fun. Here is my profile of them from Entrepreneur’s April 2012 issue:
Orbotix: Where Mobile Apps and the Toy Industry Collide
Consider the ball. It’s a toy to children, rolling prey to dogs and a crucial instrument to athletes.
But for Ian Bernstein and Adam Wilson, the 28-year-old founders of Denver-based Orbotix, it’s the pinnacle of robotics and a prime example of how smartphones will one day interact with the world.
