Πριν λίγο καιρό ο γνωστός μαρκετίστας Seth Godin (για όσους δεν τον γνωρίζουν πατήστε εδώ), έτρεξε ένα έξυπνο project με την ονομασία “The 6 months MBA” με την συμμετοχή μόνον 9 ατόμων.

Τα άτομα αυτά εκπαιδεύτηκαν πάνω σε θέματα επιχειρηματικότητας και μάρκετινγκ, με σκοπό να μάθουν όσα χρειάζεται κάποιος για να πετύχει στις επιχειρήσεις.

Στην διάρκεια του εναλλακτικού αυτού MBA, κάλεσε τους μαθητές του να σκεφτούν ο καθένας από 111 ιδέες οι οποίες θα μπορούσαν να γίνουν επιχειρήσεις. Έτσι λοιπόν συνολικά σχηματίστηκαν 999 ιδέες.

Τις 100 πρώτες ιδέες παρουσιάζουμε παρακάτω οι οποίες θα σας δώσουν τροφή για σκέψη ..για πολύ καιρό!

Όπως λέει και ο ίδιος (ο Seth Godin) “οι ιδέες έχουν αξία μόνον όταν κάποιος (όπως εσείς) τις κάνει να συμβούν”.

Αυτό τον χρόνο λοιπόν, κάντε τις ιδέες σας πραγματικότητα!

Οι 100 πρώτες ιδέες για να πάρετε έμπνευση (στα Αγγλικά):

1. Prepackaged school supplies based on the lists from the school districts
2. Incubator site providing office space, hosting, etc. for startups that are seed funded.
3. In-grocery store prep service (buy vegetables first and drop them off to be chopped to your specs – pick them up on the way to checkout)
4. A website that you can submit your design and work with vendors to manufacture your own clothes line.
5. Online discount brokerage that has no closing hours and provides access to all exchanges throughout the world and handles currency and legal issues automatically.
6. Stamphead, where stamps can be custom made in the likeness of an avatar the user creates.
7. Aggregator site for affiliate marketers to collect daily reports. Would work on a tiered pricing structure giving you more info the higher up you go. Basic would be for people like me who just want to know if they made something and how much; advanced would pull down all available data.
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.)
9. Herbal Flavored Gum. MMM…rosemary.
10. Church issued credit card with automatic 10% for religious tithing
11. Brainstorm Consulting – Teach companies how to brainstorm
12. Create a website for non-profits and a list of their projects/needs and a similar list for foundations. Its a central meeting place for people to look for funding from the right people.
13. Tutorial videos for technological skills (word processing, internet applications, email) for people who don’t know how to navigate technology but need it.
14. Website where musicians can collaborate on tracks
15. Signs in restaurants on menus that list all the ingredients.
16. Network of chefs that rotate being personal chefs
17. Nuclear waste storage facilities completely removed from society.
18. Hedge fund that makes bridge loans to homeowners facing foreclosure.
19. Small-town / city – websites (through city and Chamber of Commerce) – most small town websites are terrible
20. whistle It.com: download audio of people whistling popular songs.
21. A food service where you can email them your mom’s recipes and have them make it for you and deliver it during lunch time.
22. Multiple camera angles on live television (especially for sports) or online viewing
23. Replicate reality TV shows for foreign countries.
24. SIM card swap service
25. An alternative medicine or homeopathic online service that diagnoses your ailment and gives you the proper corresponding alternative treatment; also provides you with doctors in your area that treat with alternative medicines.
26. Create the double snuggie.
27. A company that installs a monitor at a building entry and hosts virtual door attendants.
28. Web-based language tutors leveraging Skype and Google Docs for curriculum.
29. Meal delivery in hospitals
30. Web package for a school system that allows parents to see their kids’ school schedules, grades, lunches, sports activities
31. Santa Delivery Service – A dressed Santa will come to your home during the holidays and deliver your gifts as Santa
32. Presentation Consulting – Teach companies how to improve their presentations
33. A website that boasts: Buy one product, have one mystery product of lesser value shipped to a friend for the cost of s&h. the user don’t know what they’ll get, but it will be fun as hell and keep the user in touch in an interesting way.
34. Tribe Consulting – Help individuals (not companies) discover what Tribes they should lead and help them do it
35. Music Box manufacturer that will turn any inanimate objects mailed to then into music boxes. Users buy direct online, picking from available stock. Added charge for sending in the you own inanimate object.
36. Customer feedback software for mobile phones sold to marketers.
37. Web-based rent-a-CFO.
38. Application to sell to universities that allows students to access their transcripts online
39. Exchange clothing (like PaperBackSwap.com) for men’s & women’s clothing
40. Monthly subscription service for unlimited ebooks on your ebook reader device. Rhapsody/Netflix model for ebooks.
41. Cell phone made of biodegradable materials
42. iPhone app that tells you odds for a poker hand
43. Let’s Get Coffee – for couples; pairing service similar to matchmaking service “It’s Just Lunch” to help couples find other couples with similar friends
44. A service that discounts newspapers after 8pm the day of print. I do not want to buy a NYTimes for $5 at the end of the day.
45. Nonprofit that takes old CD electronics to developing countries
46. A unified affiliate marketing program for every store on the web.
47. Contest company for small local businesses
48. Website mock-ups for people seeking VC funding
49. Grocery delivery service for college campuses: Fresh direct for dorm rooms.
50. Independent calorie testing company – A company that actually does testing on food for consumers to determine calorie content
51. Earplugs that go deeper into your ears but don’t hurt them.
52. Online transcription service for conference calls – leveraging Amazon Mechanical Turk.
53. Google for video & audio – Dragonspeak -> voice to text -> with searchable tags
54. A service that just vacuums and dust your apartment.
55. A way to ensure that each person can only create one account on a website, without having to sacrifice anonymity.
56. A small flap or cover (separate or built-in) for computers and technology with little lights that flash when they sleep (so you can sleep.)
57. Crutches that stand upright by themselves. The base would have feet that fold up or spring out so you don’t have to lay them on the ground where they get in the way and people trip over them, etc.
58. Interior Design on a Budget – for people who still want their homes to look good but can’t afford Restoration Hardware – client defines a set budget and consultants design using budget pieces from TJMaxx or Marshall’s or odds & ends shops
59. Landscaping business specializing only on LEED rooftop gardens.
60. Company that records your voice message and other digital forms of media and sends it out into space as a message in a space bottle.
61. Fireplace rehab – clean, paint, resurface, whatever to make it pretty. Big in places where same brick as outside the house is used for the fireplace and it’s not attractive (I’ve had two houses now like this.)
62. “How to live on a small budget” website written by college students for college student for all sizable college towns sponsored by local merchant coupons.
63. Someone/service that keeps inventory in a household (products, cleaning, etc.)
64. A drink company that brings the Shirley Temple back – the best drink ever!
65. Online Firewood Sales – Sell firewood online directly to consumers and business
66. On-click online data storage and streaming of a clients entire media library. (never lose anything again and have anywhere anytime access) Charge by the GB and bandwidth. Provide conversion services from CD to MP3.
67. Cupcake Shop (fresh and creative cupcakes)
68. A mobile job fair in a tractor trailer that pulls up in the parking lots of offices of businesses performing massive layoffs. You then make money by renting out space in the trailer to companies in similar industries.
69. Online Professional Wrestling Memorabilia Store – Sell pro wrestling memorabilia online directly to consumers
70. Software to manage energy sales back to the grid generated by home systems.
71. Analytics software for customer profiling, not just click analysis.
72. Disposable mittens made from biodegradable materials in vending machines at supermarkets.
73. OnlineConfessions.com. read other confessions and share the you own anonymously.
74. Instant Flash builder, providing motion templates with easy upload graphic and text to fit template animation.
75. Technology licensing agency.
76. Consulting business creating a series of Squidoo lenses for an author on and around specific book titles. Pitch to publicists and literary agents, as well as directly to authors.
77. Hire voice actors to read popular blogs to create podcasts where they don’t yet exist (“Best of the Blogosphere Podcast”)
78. Personalized cereal boxes (to celebrate child’s achievements)
79. Local business-sponsored community bike program
80. Antique wedding jewelry shopping – another eco/reuse theme. Rather than buy something new that requires mining and blood diamonds, get an antique that comes with a story (about the long marriage of the previous couple, of course). We find it for you in the style you think you want.
81. Surgery-specific recovery packs in hospital (if Sucrets and a can of cranberry juice is better than water & crackers, that pack exists)
82. Personal lessons for using your cell phone features
83. Venture capital consulting for startups.
84. A company that makes hybrid fruits. Instead of drinking a lime pomegranate drink you can eat a lime granite.
85. Photography studio that casts you as characters from movies
86. Centralized web portal for university technology transfer offices.
87. A service that gives well-known business people a public email address, so that if an email get sent there you can read the email and then read the response. The idea being that it will give you insight into the mind of the person and what made them successful, and it will also teach you how to write good emails and learn email etiquette.
88. A technology/service that Preachers/Rabbi’s/Clergy can use that creates a way to gather feedback during the service from the attendees.
89. Online flower shop with one-hour delivery
90. A non-profit that provides credit consulting for youth and impoverished.
91. Local fresh restaurant that opens off-peak hours to hold cooking classes to locals.
92. Fractional Ownership of Technological Conference Room in Office Complex
93. Rent-a-wife – a woman who cleans, cooks, does laundry, picks up dry cleaning, mail, etc but without the emotional relationship.
94. Project management website for volunteer shift scheduling – church nurseries, hospital auxiliary members, protest marches, etc.
95. Pencil sharpener type device to grind down dog toenails
96. An iPhone app that allows you to search a database of unique and obscure beers and drinks
97. Glow in the dark non-toxic washable paint that you can spray on your kids/pets when they are trick-or-treating so they don’t get hit by a car.
98. A party planner for kids birthday parties, but with educational and fun activities.
99. Instant Ad builder where sexy templates are linked with creative common photos.
100. Spring Shadows – program where kids can shadow business people for a short two weeks internship to see what they want to major in once they go to college and what they might want to do once they graduate

Για να δείτε και τις 999 ιδέες πατήστε εδώ.