Rent-a-wife – a woman who cleans, cooks, does laundry, picks up dry cleaning, mail, etc but without the emotional relationship.
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Business ideas: proving ideas are a dime a dosen
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#12I'm sure I saw this here first, but "Ideas are just a multiplier of execution." http://sivers.org/multiply
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#13#8: A gadget to cook beans/lentils/vegetables/rice for the same amount of time (quicker than what can be done in a slow cooker.)
Ah dang, I was just about to re-invent the microwave too!
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#14> 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.
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#15> 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.
I think that idea could actually make some money.
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#16Ideas 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.
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#17This list is actually pretty awesome. I had my doubts, but wow, very nice. Funny: #120 A travel company that arranges people to stay at others houses.
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#18My 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?
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#19For what it's worth, here is the subset of the ideas I came up with from that list:
http://alexkrupp.typepad.com/sensemaking/2009/02/68-free-bus...
The point of the exercise is that most people think of five or ten ideas, and then go with the first decent idea they come up with. But if you actually force yourself to come up with 100+ ideas then it's more likely that your idea will legitimately be a good idea. Which is important since the first .1% of the work you do on the project has a large influence on whether the next 99.9% will make you either millions or zero.
Fred Wilson also recently said that he would use one of the 999 if someone made it, in case that means anything to those perusing the list.
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#20> 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.
Oddly enough my friend paints famous people as cats. Her Chairman Miaow is incredible and I am sure people would love the prints.