I wear your shirt

It's a simple business model - all it requires is an easily explainable idea ("I wear your t-shirt") and enough viral marketing in advance to drive the traffic that will drive the advertisers (ie, those who will pay you to wear their shirt).

I'm sitting on two other niches for basically this business model - planning on moving overseas next year at some stage, though, so will wait until 2011 to implement (by which I mean October 2010 to start marketing).

I'm sure we could all come up with some variants.

Edit: It also helps that it's most attractive to retail / mass consumer products, and that these are most in demand in the holiday season, and that the holiday season coincides with the end of the calendar year, so the most expensive dates are also the most valuable.

Re: I wear your shirt

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Post by patio11 » Wed, Nov 25, 2009, 8:35 AM UTC

m0th87 wrote: post #4

Raphael wrote: post #2

$66,795. Not bad.

This is one of those domain-specific areas in which Wolfram is awesome: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sum+of+n+from+1+to+365

We can't all be Gauss but, then again, we're not in fourth grade anymore, either. You can sum over any range trivially: average of the endpoints times length of the range. The average of 1 and 365 is 183. There are 365 elements between 1 and 365 (both inclusive). 183 * 365 = 66795. Yay, right answer.

(There is a formula. I have a poor memory for formulas but am good at transforming English into them, so I just remember the English gloss.)

I'm decently impressed that Wolfram was able to spit out something equivalent to the right formula with only a little massaging of the inputs from me:

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sum+of+n+from+n%3Da+to+...

Re: I wear your shirt

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Post by patio11 » Wed, Nov 25, 2009, 8:38 AM UTC

eam wrote: post #3

Raphael wrote: post #2

$66,795. Not bad.

That's for 2009. For 2010 it'll increment by $2 instead of $1. Why couldn't have I thought of that?

He should ask for $1 the first day, $1.10 the second day (10% more), $1.21 (10% more) the third day... and mathematical illiteracy for Christmas.

Re: I wear your shirt

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Post by three14 » Wed, Nov 25, 2009, 8:40 AM UTC

m0th87 wrote: post #4

Raphael wrote: post #2

$66,795. Not bad.

This is one of those domain-specific areas in which Wolfram is awesome: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sum+of+n+from+1+to+365

There's a famous possibly true story about Gauss having to sum the numbers 1 to 100 as a child. Most versions tell it that he noticed that 1 + 100 = 2 + 99 = 3 + 98 and so on, yielding a general formula of n * (n + 1) / 2, so you could probably skip Wolfram for this one. (Explanation: you have n numbers, on average each is equal to the first + the last divided by 2)

Unless you want it for this: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sum+of+n+from+1+to+n

Re: I wear your shirt

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Post by Raphael » Wed, Nov 25, 2009, 8:57 AM UTC

m0th87 wrote: post #4

Raphael wrote: post #2

$66,795. Not bad.

This is one of those domain-specific areas in which Wolfram is awesome: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sum+of+n+from+1+to+365

Preaching to the choir. I used it all day for physics homework.

Re: I wear your shirt

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Post by seldo » Wed, Nov 25, 2009, 10:11 AM UTC

m0th87 wrote: post #4

Raphael wrote: post #2

$66,795. Not bad.

This is one of those domain-specific areas in which Wolfram is awesome: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=sum+of+n+from+1+to+365

I knew there must be a formula but I totally just broke out a spreadsheet and auto-generated the sequence and then auto-summed it.

Math/brain fail.