That's a tough one. I don't really know but it did remind me of something. My old man swears he was the first to think of the truck bed liner. Man it would have been nice to be a little rich boy :)
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gabriel Gunderson Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 4:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: When all you have is a great idea... Dear Abby... er, PLUG, I'm pretty funny about business ideas. I try to think of cool new businesses all day long. It's something I enjoy doing (I get it from my dad - ever the entrepreneur). I can't take a shower or a walk without "working" on one of them. While it's yet to make me rich, I do enjoy using the spare brain cycles. When all you have is a great idea, where do you go with it? Do you share it and risk others taking it? Should you care, or is that being silly? Usually, I don't take the ideas too seriously and I share them with others with the hope they may do something with it. Anyway, I came up with an idea this week that really stands out in my mind. It's an advertising business that's 90% technology (Open Source) and 10% whatever else. An advertiser wouldn't come up with it on his own, but a technologist might. It is very, very targeted and I'm betting has a *very* high "click-through" rate. I believe it would be *extremely* easy to sell. I'm certain it's not currently being done by anyone else. You can see why I would be excited. The problems are... 1) Only a med-big company could pull-it-off. 2) A partnership with someone like Google would be needed. 3) It needs to be rolled-out in large cities all at once. 4) Significant upfront hardware cost. Where does that leave the guy who doesn't even have time to shovel his walkway but has a killer idea? What would you do? Sincerely, Underfunded in S.F. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */ -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 268.0.0/267 - Release Date: 2/22/2006 /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
