Ideas are a dime a dozen. The money is in the execution.
Alex Ko on 2009-11-30
How? Is this an idea or a problem in search for a solution?
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Alex Kosome of these are interesting, many of these are not really ideas but rather problems that need solution ideas
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A way to ensure that each person can only create one account on a website, without having to sacrifice anonymity.
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Hire voice actors to read popular blogs to create podcasts where they don't yet exist ("Best of the Blogosphere Podcast")
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Alex Ko on 2009-11-30
TTS can be used for this
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Standing in line for people
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Alex Ko on 2009-11-30
Maybe replacing lines with a more efficient distribution method
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Twitter third party app to help drivers find vacant parking spaces in crowded metro areas; sponsored by local merchants and advertising.
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Independent account fraud company - A company does regular checkups of your online accounts (like social networking sites) to check for fraudulent activity
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Replication service for clothing items – make you a new pair just like the old pair
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Fast food restaurants with healthy, organic and tasty foods.
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Networked home alarm systems so that neighbors can check on each other's homes during break-ins.
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Food consulting company that helps local restaurants with calorie measurement and other health issues - and publishes calorie, fat, vitamin data to third party apps on smart phones.
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Creating a website community for freelance professors (professional educators with a specific expertise; different from tutors in the sense that they are not preparing students for a certain test or "actual class") to connect with students who want to be educated via an alternative route.
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Group dating website.
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Online mentoring program for students of all ages (Pen pals that teach each other skills online.)
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A not-for-profit that pairs experts with eager and willing pupils for an apprenticeship program.
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Netflix for conversation pieces. Get bored of your coffee table book and send it back for another.
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An Urban Dictionary for texting.
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Interactive billboard advertisements with codes for coupons sent to mobile phones (mobile-location-based-presence advertising).
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A consumer hotline to advise people on electronic purchases and installation on a $ per minute basis.
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A mentoring program (website) that connects entrepreneurs with specific mentors they seek.
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Website that generates naming and branding ideas
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Alex Ko on 2009-11-30
this is rather a problem that needs solution. The solution is not obvious. An idea would be how to implement name generation.
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A service where people are employed to talk specifically to antisocial or shy people at a party (they’ll feel better about themselves and will be more likely to open up next time with their new confidence.)
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Really good collaboration software for creating mindmaps, with version control that's as easy to use as Wikipedia's history tab. Uses the same open data format as FreeMind.
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A personal education coach-they pick blogs, books, resources for you to learn based on your personal interests and career goals. They gather all the materials and for you and make recommendations on the best way for learning the material.
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An organization devoted specifically to growing awareness over an obscure problem that no one really looks at (i.e. kids that grow up in negative environments and what that does to them as adults.)
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search hotline for those who don’t have access to the internet and simply want quick answers to their inquiries sent to them as SMS texts.
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Online judge dispute resolution - Submit your disagreements onliine and for a fee a judge will email you back the verdict on who is right
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A crowd-sourced social filter. So you type in something you think would be funny to say or do to someone else, and the site tells you whether it's actually a good idea or whether it would be wildly inappropriate.
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A software that will allow you to change the channel and adjust the lights in the room through you computer.
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Create your own ice cream flavors
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A software program that functions like Pandora for television programs.
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A YouTube VC firm
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A website or iPhone app that finds places for large groups to hang out in real time. So for example if you're wandering around union square with fifteen friends at night, find the nearest ten places that can accommodate that many people right now.
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ThatsAThing.com - tells you if things already exists
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Argument module for Twitter
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Ability to tag certain parts of online videos so users and friends can find videos and certain parts of videos easily
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System that sends me my receipts electronically via email rather than paper copies at the store. Should file them in the same categories as my budget or credit card statement and talk to my bank/money management software. Could either work with my credit card company or via the loyalty cards stores offer. Compares the receipt I receive with the statement that comes later. I can see the copy immediately on my cell phone to check it there as well.
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An online service that if your wallet gets stolen, has a secure place for all the credit cards and accounts you need to cancel right in one place.
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Online therapist that is available 24x7 via chat
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Brainstorm Consulting - Teach companies how to brainstorm
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Multiple camera angles on live television (especially for sports) or online viewing
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Replicate reality TV shows for foreign countries
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SIM card swap service
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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
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Create the double snuggie
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Web-based language tutors leveraging Skype and Google Docs for curriculum.
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Presentation Consulting - Teach companies how to improve their presentations
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Tribe Consulting - Help individuals (not companies) discover what Tribes they should lead and help them do it
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iPhone app that tells you odds for a poker hand
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Contest company for small local businesses
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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.)
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Landscaping business specializing only on LEED rooftop gardens.
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Online Firewood Sales - Sell firewood online directly to consumers and business
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OnlineConfessions.com. read other confessions and share the you own anonymously.
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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.
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Personalized cereal boxes (to celebrate child's achievements)
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Venture capital consulting for startups
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A party planner for kids birthday parties, but with educational and fun activities.
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Artists' Playground. This is a building that has rooms setup for ceramics, painting, silk screenings, theater, writing, open mic, dance, photography, etc. This building will also have social areas for people to mingle over coffee and healthy foods. People pay a monthly membership to have access and it is also rented out for events.
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Jason DeRonerIdeas are a dime a dozen. The money is in the execution.
Need proof? For Seth Godin's Alternative MBA program, this week the nine of us came up with 111 business ideas each.
But ideas are only valuable when someone (like you) makes something happen.-
Web package for a school system that allows parents to see their kids' school schedules, grades, lunches, sports activities
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iPhone app that is specifically for ski maps. Shows number of runs made and has lots of cool interactive features. Even shows which runs are groomed. Every ski resort would need their own app. Probably provide the app for free and the ski resort pays an arm and a leg for being featured in the app.
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- Story Consulting - Help companies define and refine their story and teach them how to tell it
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For Americans book series – Cricket for Americans, Bollywood for Americans, World History for Americans, French Film for Americans – would be topics that go outside our country to hopefully explain that the rest of the world isn’t just like us, nor should it be
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Sell web stats back to website owners who are computer illiterate (Google Analytics)
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Assist business people (authors, bloggers, executives) organize speeches and presentations - establish relationships with many venues & marketing channels
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A website that will sell you a really cheap airline ticket to a foreign country anywhere in the world, but you only get to pick the day you're leaving and coming back. The site picks where you're going on vacation for you.
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Online brand & reputation monitoring - help companies manage their online reputation
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12 Feb 09
Ronn BlackBusiness ideas
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Hamster Burial Kits & 998 Other Business Ideas
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Tutorial videos for technological skills (word processing, internet applications, email) for people who don't know how to navigate technology but need it.
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Fabio de MirandaHamster Burial Kits & 998 Other Business Ideas
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whistle It.com: download audio of people whistling popular songs.
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OnlineConfessions.com. read other confessions and share the you own anonymously.
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An iPhone app that allows you to search a database of unique and obscure beers and drinks
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Publisher of web-based children's games.
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Digital tombstones that serve rich multimedia messages and memories of the deceased.
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- Custom adventures using Virtual Reality goggles and a windfan (i.e. - basejumping a waterfall or the Grand Canyon)
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Online Suspenders store - Company sells nothing but suspenders
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A digital coloring book.
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DeadCells Art: mail your old, hated cell phones to a factory that smashes it and returns it to the user as framed work of art.
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A website that teaches kids how to do quant trading. The site would come with a data feed, dozens of pre-packaged statistical tests that could be deployed or combined in various ways, and the ability to do backtesting to see if this strategy would have been effective on previous data.
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iPhone app that has similar features to Nike plus (who doesn't have an app yet). For runners. Pace, speed, etc. All reports back to a website that has monthly subscription cost
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A sophisticated website that uses an eHarmony-like algorithm to match nannies and families
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Fish Burial Kit.
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An Urban Dictionary for texting.
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A consumer hotline to advise people on electronic purchases and installation on a $ per minute basis.
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