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Okay... on the one hand, I can see how someone could build a successful business around this. On the other hand, if your business idea doesn't create and capture more value for humanity than this, I'd suggest going back to the drawing board. Your standards may be too low, aim higher.
http://thatslifeinthecity.blogspot.com/2007/11/kansas-womans...
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Yes - in the article, she said she wanted to open a storefront with a bakery about a year later, and they estimated that she would need to sell 90,000 biscuits at $1.50 each to get there. $ dc -e '2 k 90000 365 / p' 246.57 That's a lot of biscuits to make by hand. Let's take it a step further: $ dc -e '2 k 245.57 12 / p' 20.46 If you assume each batch of a dozen takes an hour to make, assume typical kitchen equipment…
I'm guessing you never baked before, but batches aren't one dozen and you can whip through them in short order. 240 cookies (er, biscuits) would be about 10 cycles if you have two half sheet pans. Depending on chill time (if any) you could knock through it in a regular home oven in three hours fairly easily. With some actual equipment and a helper, it would be half that. Bakeries make ridiculous amounts of baked good…
This discussion is already stupid. No need to make it worse.
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Hey, don't knock it - pets drive almost as much spending as children do!
so make something dog owners want. unlike children dogs don't typically whine until they get what they want.
According to the APPMA statistics on spending("Pet Industry Statistics and Trends"), Americans spent 34.4 billion dollars on their pets in 2004, which means pet-related spending has doubled in the last 10 years in the US.
The APPMA's reported the following breakdown for the areas in which money is spent on pets (2004 figures for the US)
$14.2 billion for food
$8.1 billion for supplies and OTC medications
$8.2 billion for veterinarian care
$1.6 billion for live animal purchases
$2.31 billion for other services such as grooming and boarding
http://exoticpets.about.com/cs/resourcesgeneral/a/petstates....
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It's not the idea per se thats bad. There are a number of stories on YC which point to this problem: Most ideas are nothing without execution. (most recent: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=237096 )
Hell, I was in LA last week and saw a gourmet bakery for pets. No joke. They seemed to be doing brisk business. Several customers went in with their pets in the time it took me to drive by.
Edit: Ah yes, Hello!Morning episode #331 and #332.
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It's not the idea per se thats bad. There are a number of stories on YC which point to this problem: Most ideas are nothing without execution. (most recent: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=237096 )
Hell, I was in LA last week and saw a gourmet bakery for pets. No joke. They seemed to be doing brisk business. Several customers went in with their pets in the time it took me to drive by.
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It's the Onion .
About 8 years ago I remember reading an advice column in which the letter writer was concerned because her child's friends were all reading Harry Potter. She referenced this article: http://www.theonion.com/content/news/harry_potter_books_spar... The advice columnist was pleased to explain the purposes of the Onion
http://www.snopes.com/humor/iftrue/potter.asp
And it's not the only such incident:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Onion#The_Onion_taken_serio...
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Hell, I was in LA last week and saw a gourmet bakery for pets. No joke. They seemed to be doing brisk business. Several customers went in with their pets in the time it took me to drive by.
There's one here in Truckee, CA.
Mud Bay Granary isn't exactly a bakery, but it does nothing but sell expensive, organic, gourmet pet food. It's been in Seattle for years, and there are at least a half-dozen stores.
it's depressing that the onion correlates with reality to a higher degree than mainstream media.
it's depressing that the onion correlates with reality to a higher degree than mainstream media. That's the whole point. If the mainstream media did its job, there would be no onion. (Just like if the corporate world made any sense, there would be no Dilbert.)
Through out the story (fake or not), her freinds kept encourage her to do wrong things, she should have started smaller, not quite her job until she got a solid amoutn of order, this is a web/ecomerce business and getting a store front would be the second this I would do after the web and whole sale business was rolling.
Also the name of the product is horrible: "Grandma Sabin's Low-Fat Biscuits For Particularly Finicky Dogs,"
way too long, and "Particularly Finicky" - how about: Grandma Sabin's Gourmet Big Biscuits. All Natural, Low Fat Delicious Dog Biscuits.