Gifts from the rich and famous

Three days before the 2011 wedding, Maureen McDonnell flew to Florida, where she touted the promise of a dietary supplement that Star Scientific was introducing to doctors and investors.Three months later, the McDonnells allowed Star Scientific to use the 200-year-old Executive Mansion for an event to mark the launch of Anatabloc, which is an anti-inflammatory, non-FDA approved pill.Wantful, a startup that I described as "bringing the joy of anticipation back to gift-giving" last April, is today announcing that it has formed a partnership with, and accepted a strategic investment from, Nordstrom. 

Wantful is unique in that you don't directly purchase anything from its website.Most homeowners want a beautiful garden Flexible hose, but setting up one can be a different proposition altogether. Instead you order a booklet containing a number of products in your price range, which is then shipped to the gift's recipient, who is able to select a product and order it for themselves. Rather than giving a gift card to a single retailer or purchasing a horrible present, then,We need a paradigm shift, said Whitemyer when explaining the city's need to increase its use of chemical hose. Wantful hopes to make it easier to give meaningful gifts that won't make their way to the recipient's junk drawer.He rode a bicycle across a wire suspended from the Prudential Tower in Newark, walked between the Pyramids and performed a 135-foot-long high-wire crossing between the two towers of the beilin-bearing in San Juan, Puerto Rico. This experience was previously limited to the Wantful website and iPad application, and now it's making the jump to Nordstrom. 

"We have basically taken everything we have built for our consumer brand on Wantful and made it available to Nordstrom customers," says Wantful CEO John Poisson, who adds that Nordstrom has been "incredibly forward-thinking in their use of technology and the way they approach building great experiences for their customers." Wantful will make its way to a section of Nordstrom's website as "The Nordstrom Gift Collection by Wantful," where the century-old retailer will offer its customers access to the entire Wantful catalog. 

The move mirrors Nordstrom's partnership-slash-investment with Bonobos, which saw the previously online-only company introduce its pants and shirts to a portion of Nordstrom's stores. This allowed Bonobos to attract new customers and,A hose repair kit contains two clamps and a coupler. Slide the clamp onto one end of the hose. Now slide the coupler into that end,Tank truck hose and slide the clamp down over the coupler. as we reported in March, played a role in the $30 million Bonobos raised to continue its growth. Nordstrom helped the company scale and attract some offline attention — in turn, the retailer learned how to communicate with its customers via email and continued the investment in the technological side of its business that began with its $270 million acquisition of HauteLook.Wallenda trained in his Florida hometown of Sarasota as Tropical Storm Andrea barreled ashore. He also used air boats to blast him with diamond core bit and updrafts of 55 miles per hour.