Thursday, April 17, 2008

How to get rich the smart way?

Pixels, charge a dollar per pixel -- that's perhaps the dumbest idea for online business anyone could have possible come up with. Still, Alex Tew, a 21-year-old who came up with the idea, is now a millionaire.

Ok, how's that for a brilliant idea. Get a postal address at North Pole, Alaska, pretend you are Santa Claus and charge parents 10 bucks for every letter you send to their kids?

Create goggles for dogs and sell them online? Boy, this IS the dumbest idea for a business.

LaserMonks.com is a for-profit subsidiary of the Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Spring Bank, an eight-monk monastery in the hills of Monroe County, 90 miles northwest of Madison. Yeah, real monks refilling your cartridges.

You can't sell antenna ball online. There is no way.

Create a deck of cards featuring exercise routines, and sell it online for $18.95. Sounds like a disaster idea to me.

How would you like to go on a date with an HIV positive person? Paul Graves and Brandon Koechlin thought that someone would, so they created a dating site for HIV positive folks last year.

Christie Rein was tired of carrying diapers around in a freezer bag. The 34-year-old mother of three found herself constantly stuffing diapers for her infant son into freezer bags to keep them from getting scrunched up in her purse.

Hire another person to think of a cool domain name for you? No way people would pay for this.

Now, this stupid idea is just destined to flop. Who in the world needs FAKE PLASTIC wishbones?