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Want to lose weight, take out a contract on yourself

6:35pm

As far as new business ideas go this has to be right up there with the most innovative, some Yale folk are planning to set up stickK.com which allows you to take out a contract on your weight loss. The idea being that people only actually shed the pounds when there is cost to not doing so. At the very least, it is one truly slimmed down business model.

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