I need an idea

[mr_weasel]

Hello Folks on my Friend's List!

I was wondering if I could pick your brains for a couple ideas. I need some venture ideas for a course I'm taking. I need concrete concepts that could potentially be turned into a business plan that could be submitted to potential investors. They should involve IT in some way, of course.

For example, the one idea I have right now is to develop a simulator for work flow in an office or a pharmacy/retail environment. At this time I don't have a good way to determine what staffing I need at my store. The simulator would forecast my needs based on current trends in workflow.

I don't know if that's a good idea and I need a few others to submit. Then, I have to find a group.

No idea is too crazy.

Thanks

Comments

[terminal-pariah.livejournal.com]

In Canada it's legal to copy music CDs provided that you make the copy that you'll be keeping (i.e. I can't burn a copy for you). Due to the levy that we pay this is unlikely to change in the near future.
Set up pairs of vending machines. One sells overpriced blank CDs. The other has a large library of popular albums. The user drops in a twonie, selects their desired album and puts in a blank CD. Then they hit the big green "Copy" button. Twenty seconds later they get their disc.
So, assuming they pay $1 - $2 for the blank and $2 to "rent the burner," you're getting $3 - $4 for a material cost of a few cents per customer.
Of course, you have to invest in collecting libraries of albums...

[eyebeams.livejournal.com]

Chocolate microscopes?

[kinra.livejournal.com]

Have some machine at highway rest stops where you look up some location on Google Maps or a comparable service, and then you select the appropriate region and route, and a plotter prints out the appropriate map on a big piece of appropriately-folded paper.

Call it "Stol Teg" which is "Get Lost" backwards.

[(Anonymous)]

One, very odd word: Teledildonics.

It's a business plan that already has a gigantic market. Us.

Miks

[mr-weasel.livejournal.com]

Okay, I'll bite. What is "Teledildonics"?

[(Anonymous)]

I'll let the Wikipedia explain...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teledildonics

Miks