Guest Thinkers — February 22, 2011

Jeans for innovators

A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people

Couldn’t pass this up. The small business community Ekaweeka has been featuring this YouTube video of a photo shoot for Innovator Jeans on its front page: young lovelies dance around in tight jeans on a windswept sandy beach to the tune of Beyonce’s “Crazy in Love.”

A weekly newsletter featuring the biggest ideas from the smartest people

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