international. send a selfie of you and your business and add the #yourbisselfie. please don t forget to tell us your name city and the name of your company. ordering food online is fast becoming the go-to way to have your dinner delivered to you. today s elevator pitchers have come up with a way to make your order via text. hector is the former administrator of the small business administration and small business expert jim returns as well. the host of the small business advocate show. he s greg i m stewart. we re cofounders at ooet a bit.com. last year $70 billion of takeout and delivery food orders were
your house. hannah and mark are the cofounders of wallaland. hannah, you came up with an idea for a great stylish sippy dhaup helped solve the problems for your kid. had you worked together before? mark you were a serial entrepreneur. had you been involved in any of the companies, hannah? no never. i ve never been involved in his work before. tell me the conversation which is we re starting a business together. we have a new baby we re married, you had school. how did you talk about it? i m proud of our level of communication. before we started the business i just said you have a great idea. i m dying to take this market. before we go on any further we
issue. i think the democratic platform will be set for whoever the nominee is around income equality, and trying to figure out and adjust a sustainable economy. i would add to that ticket and i ve said this here before on this show only michelle obama as his running mate. it will never happen. a gore/obama ticket? what about john kerry? that was done. eyen a worse candidate than al goir. income equality is such an important issue, and climate change not sexy for most voters. it s a problem, though. people don t here s my other thing. al gore was an original dlcer one of the cofounders of the democratic leadership council. he is not the more liberate candidate that the base has been yearning for. ogdlc.
supporters of the group this weekend apparently declared war on twitter, not that declared war on somebody else using twitter but declared war against twitter. they asked isis supporters worldwide to attack twitter employees and interests. they singled out one of the company s cofounders because they said isis fighters are so mad about having their accounts deactivated and taken down by the country. that s worrying. and slightly hopeful news about the syria christians taken hostage by iraq last week. this is the group thought to be 200, 220 syrian christians taken by isis. these christians are not fighters. this is women, kids old people families who have been taken hostage. this weekend with to a lot of people s surprise isis decided to free some of those christian captives, 19 of them specifically and we don t know why or if that means more of the christians will be freed anytime soon but at least that happened.
tokarski joined by the thousands of other people for the annual special olympic polar plunge and she made the plunge in a work suit. you go and jumped with the senator dan sullivan. she called it refleshing. i d say. special olympics alaska estimates $400,000 was raised for the event. congratulations to them. those were the things we thought you should know. born in the usa where we high lie american business success stories. katherine and sofia, cofounders of georgetown cupcake not only are business partners, but they are sisters. like real sisters. inspired by their grand mom, they gave up their high profile careers and at the beginning of their obsession for a passion for baking am they opened up the first shop in washington, d.c. since then they opened stores in