> Where does that leave the guy who doesn't even have time to > shovel his walkway but has a killer idea?
if all else fails, you can always post it on halfbakery.com with all the other half baked ideas! ;-) http://www.halfbakery.com/random-idea.html -josh > -----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. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
