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Re: Business ideas: proving ideas are a dime a dosen

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Post by rospaya »

saraid216 wrote: post #18
mikk0j wrote: post #4

My favorite, #469: "A YouTube VC firm, that will invest money in people who are willing to do stupid stuff on video in hopes that the video will go viral and they will make a profit." Could happen, in today's angel investment climate...

Rebecca Black?

She gave money to somebody to film her doing stupid stuff.

Re: Business ideas: proving ideas are a dime a dosen

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Post by espadagroup »

marknutter wrote: post #16
espadagroup wrote: post #7

Ideas are a dime a dozen, but great ideas are not. Some ideas are better than others, and some are much better than others. It would be easy to argue that someone who could consistently come up with the much better ones would be worth just as much if not more than a great executor.

Great ideas are only great in hindsight.

I really don't think so. If in at least your own mind it is not a great idea then you shouldn't do it to begin with.

Re: Business ideas: proving ideas are a dime a dosen

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Post by jamesteow »

hcho wrote: post #14
pavel_lishin wrote: post #3

> A village in china that paints portraits of pop culture icons as various dog breeds. Look, Obama as a GreyHound! If your ideas are retarded, of course they're a dime a dozen.

How does selling ringtones of a frog singing to club music sound as an idea to you? Let me introduce you to Crazy Frog: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crazy_Frog Retarded ideas make money too.

I sure as hell didn't think limiting people to 140 characters was going to make sense.

Re: Business ideas: proving ideas are a dime a dosen

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Post by briggsbio »

Alex3917 wrote: post #22
pavel_lishin wrote: post #3

> A village in china that paints portraits of pop culture icons as various dog breeds. Look, Obama as a GreyHound! If your ideas are retarded, of course they're a dime a dozen.

"If your ideas are retarded, of course they're a dime a dozen." There is actually a town in china where the entire village makes their money painting caricatures of monkeys. Not saying it's a good career move, but at least that's the context for where the idea came from. Interesting enough, the majority of the world's oil paintings come from this one tiny village with 5,000 painters who spend all day slavishly copyin…

I wouldn't call Xiamen a "town" or a "village." My cousin lives there with his wife and two children. It has a population of over 2.5 million people, and was voted (by whom, IDK) one of the "most livable cities in China." He worked for EDS for years and wanted to be transfered to China because of how much he loved it. When they wouldn't transfer him, he FOUND a way to move there. He ended up building a factory there to manufacture leather goods. Get the best leather he can from N&S America, and manufactures it there. He now has hundreds of employees, many with some form of disability, and is incredibly happy.

So I wouldn't call Xiamen itself a village, but you may be referring to a small village nearby.

Re: Business ideas: proving ideas are a dime a dosen

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Post by DrCatbox »

I have read a couple of hundred of them and thats the most useless ideas I have ever seen.

Most of them seem to be a solution to really mundane everyday consumer quirks. None of them attempts to use basic human needs such as need for communication and approval. Its just "somebody could do my laundry" and "somebody could write something on a website".

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