Maxim January 31, 2013
In every bull run, there are a million “my brother-in-law made 20% last year” investment strategies. Kevin Williamson National Review online
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Maxim January 17, 2013
Swiss folk dancing Opportunity dances with those who are already on the dance floor. Jackson Brown
Needed Automobile Accessory
Here is a much needed automobile accessory. This idea is so simple and so needed that if you do it right you can build a good business. The idea: A box of Tissues (Kleenex) the shape of a Starbucks Grande cup so that there is someplace to put it in your car. In one of the cup holders. Square things don’t fit in cars nearly as well as can or cup shaped things. The Ideapreneur strikes early this year.
This Space Available
A Breakfast Restaurant in Salem, Oregon has advertising on its coffee mugs. All I can say is “Why didn’t I think of that.” This is the printed place mat, area map idea on steroids. Maybe it will replace the baseball cap. With the collapse of television as a reliable advertising medium because of the DVR. (Read more here) Advertising money will be available for new nontraditional venues. The breakfast table is one. How about Highway cones with logos or the lane divider lines on the… Read More »This Space Available
Ten Great Business Ideas from 2012
I published (sounds better than blogged) about forty entrepreneurial ideas in 2012 about the same as in 2011. But this year I had two billion dollar ideas. Below is a recap of my favorites from last year there might be one for you in this list. Deer Population Control Making Football Better Business Class Interstate Travel Super Parade Upgrade Resort Bracelets Restaurant Mix Salad The Genius Bar comes to the Coffee Bar iPad Improvement Wallet and Keys Gone Better Windshield Wipers The Ideapreneur’s Holiday Gift… Read More »Ten Great Business Ideas from 2012
Maxim January 3, 2013
“You will get what you want in life if you help enough people get what they want.” Zig Zigler Motivational Speaker 1926 – 2012
Kindle Improvement App
Do you have an eReader of some kind? A Kindle, an iPad or a Nook? Then you will probably know what I’m talking about in this post. EBooks don’t have real pages so the intuitive feel you used to have about how far you are through a book is lost. Don’t get me wrong I love my old Kindle and now I almost exclusively read books on my iPad but I need more data than “location 3 of 11,415” Here is the opportunity. Build an… Read More »Kindle Improvement App
Creative Financing
I wrote last week about the Electronic wallet and said in passing that keys were next and Ravi K sent me a link to a company that is trying to build a smartphone activated add-on to a standard deadbolt. Lockitron has a very clever solution to the technical problem of this product and they illustrate it very well on their web site. But they have an even better solution to raising the money to build it. Take a look at their web site they have… Read More »Creative Financing
Invention Needed
For many years we drank wine from small glasses that were quite sturdy. But when we started enjoying better wines we began to use fancier glasses that were thinner, taller and much more fragile. The new glasses are beautiful and elegant but… …they have to be washed by hand. They spot when they dry they don’t really fit in the dishwasher and they seem too fragile. So the opportunity is to market wine glasses that are dishwasher proof, dry without spotting and fit on standard… Read More »Invention Needed
The Replicator’s Dilemma
Imagine that an inventor like Bill Gates, Henry Ford or Thomas Edison invented a machine that created products at the atomic level. That this machine could replicate anything at extremely low cost and that because it is a replicator it could replicate itself. In this world that we are imagining everybody could have a surplus of goods at very low cost. This utopian idea immediately raises a difficult question: “What will all of the people do when replicators make all of the stuff we need.”… Read More »The Replicator’s Dilemma