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Luggage Leash

Wheelie Bags are a great idea for travel. And four wheel bags are a nice improvement on the two wheel kind once you get over the dork factor. The one drawback to the four wheel kind is that on trams, subways and buses they tend to roll away from you if your not paying attention. Here is a solution.Read More »Luggage Leash

Three Day Wine

One evening you open a bottle of wine and drink a glass. It is delicious. The next night the wine is not quite as good and by the third night the wine is almost undrinkable. You drink it anyway because you really need the alcohol to help forget your day at work but that is another story. Recently it happened to me and the idea of Three Day Wine was born.Read More »Three Day Wine

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

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