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Business ideas: proving ideas are a dime a dosen
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#22> 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 copying the same templates over and over:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiamen
You can find all their stuff on ebay and alibaba.
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#23968. Make a Triple Snuggy.
What exactly is that? I'm scared.
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#24This 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.
http://www.couchsurfing.org/ ?
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#25#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!
Naw, the microwave is still pretty much a one-thing-at-a-time device. Do one thing after another, and the first is cold when the next is ready; do them together, and you either have to pop stuff in at different times or some stuff will be over/under-cooked when it ends.
Methinks the idea was something crockpot/rice-cookerish which you dump all the stuff into at once, say into different sections of the cooker, and it ensures everything finishes cooking at the same time even though everything cooks at different rates. Lower/higher temps for some things, delayed start for others...
Re: Business ideas: proving ideas are a dime a dosen
#26968. Make a Triple Snuggy. What exactly is that? I'm scared.
I think that's called the human centipede
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#27http://flippa.com, where you get a stream of business ideas that are mostly proven to work. Due diligence required as usual to identify scams, future market demand, revenue/effort, competition, profit margin, etc.
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#28> 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.
Exactly! Idea generation shouldn't be mental diarrhea, which this reads like, ranging from ho-hum, it's already obviously been done ("Brainstorm Consulting - Teach companies how to brainstorm", "Replicate reality TV shows for foreign countries.") to frivolous ("Herbal Flavored Gum").
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#29Ideas that are based on making money for the sake of being rich are the worst.
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#30Ideas matter. So does luck, timing and many other things.
Not ideas like "I want to create a backup tool" but rather ideas like "I want to create a backup tool that allow the user to simply drag and drop the files they want backed up into a folder on their machine". In other words ideas that are followed by an insight.
When people walk around saying ideas are a dime a dosen and execution is everything they forget that execution in itself is empty. You need to execute on something and that something is ideas.