Rodrigo Mejia
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Los Angeles, CA, United States
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A Startup Idea to Cure Your Weekend Hangover Before Work
Your weekends may be full of partying. Well, a small business' free taxi pilot program has sprung up in London recently, promising hungover workers a safe morning ride with a side of steamy noodles and a bottle of orange juice to beat back the effects of one too many. Called Kab-U-To-... → Read More
Rap Genius's Removal from Google is a Lesson for Web Startups to Grow Naturally
Rap Genius was founded in 2009 as an online library for hip-hop heads to gather and break down lyrics to their bones, line-by-line. Started by three Yale students, the website attracted more than 1 million unique visitors daily, until Google manually removed the site from its search results (go a... → Read More
Six Gifts for Creativity, Sustainability, and Giving Back
It's about that time of year when we're all frantically trying to hunt down those last-minute gifts for our loved ones. To help guide you to some gifts off the radar, here is a short list of some inspiring products and services that we discovered at GOOD.is this past year. 1. A Sh... → Read More
WIND: A Brilliant Animated Short on Coping with the Weather
Many on the West Coast are just now realizing that with winter comes actual weather--and its bitter, indifferent whipping. For those everywhere else, living with harsh conditions is the norm. For the windier places, German animator Rob Loebel has produced what it's like for those "who seem helple... → Read More
Meet the 2013 Independent Small Business of the Year
Tech-based small businesses and startups seem to absorb all the attention nowadays, overshadowing what are often the backbone of tightly knit neighborhoods: family-run small businesses. Trio Hardware in Plainview, New York has been operating for 50 years in the their community. For its service, ... → Read More
Help Fulfill an Ohio Boy's Christmas Wish by Sending Him Mail
Lucas Hoelscher is a 14-year-old Springfield, Ohio resident with a very simple wish: please send him mail. Hoelscher suffers from spinal muscular atrophy type I, which makes him unable to move around or talk. But what he can do is listen to his brothers and move around his eyes--and what he lov... → Read More
Throw on Your Citizen Scientist Coat and Help Identify New Antibiotics
Over 80 years ago, Alexander Fleming accidentally discovered the bacteria-fighting power of penicillin when cleaning a set of petri dishes. His chance finding paved the way for the development of antibiotics and modern medicine. Nowadays, the overprescription of antibiotics has reduced their ef... → Read More
Microsoft Dumps Employee Ranking System for a More Collaborative Model
There are good ways to motivate workers and then there's, uh, not so good ways. Employees at Microsoft had for years been encouraged to compete with each other in a stack-ranking system, where their performance was sized against another's. The system resulted in employees focusing more on their c... → Read More
The Payoff of Paying it Forward
Six years ago, a novel idea sprung up in Berkeley, California: present restaurant-goers a free meal, paid by a previous customer, and then offer them the chance to pay for the next patron. "Paying it forward" was left entirely up to the customer. And after six years, customers kept on... → Read More
Invest in the Potential of Entrepreneurial, Cash-Strapped Graduates
Colleges are foundries of creative business ideas. But for many recent graduates, the size of student debt is a near-unscalable obstacle, stalling ideas the moment they enter the working world. That's where Upstart comes in, a networking site connecting "backers" with "upstarts," or angel inve... → Read More
The Sharing Economy is Growing, Creating 'Invisible Workers'
The "sharing economy" is seemingly spreading, and small businesses built to offer rent-able products and services are springing up wherever it goes. But somewhere below the small business label are "hundreds of thousands" of people on Etsy and Sidecar engaged in the sharing economy, absent of tra... → Read More