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Who do you call to de-teepee your house?

By start-ip • Jun 24th, 2007 • Category: ideas, kids

I was walking my dogs this morning when I came across two teenage girls cleaning up their yard after being victim to a house teepee. It had rained last night, so the toilet paper was really hard to collect.
This got me thinking. Some enterprising teenager could set up a service whereby they would […]



Where to get your million dollar idea

By start-ip • Jun 20th, 2007 • Category: entrepreneurship, ideas

The Toronto Sun offers these tips on where to get your million dollar idea:

Combine elements from two businesses and create a third;
Open your ears and eyes to ideas around you;
Forget inventions and think services or online retail;
Be better.



Hey, let’s open up a drive-in, but isn’t the drive-in dead?

By start-ip • Jun 19th, 2007 • Category: entertainment, ideas

No. The drive-in is not dead. You’ve just got to rethink the execution. Check-out the story of Star-Vu in OC Weekly. It’s about bureaucrat turned entrepreneur Fred Armendiraz who purchased portable outdoor screens from Outdoor Movies and set up a drive-in theater on the parking lot of the Orange County Fairgrounds.
Here’s […]



Use the internet to develop your business idea

By start-ip • Jun 19th, 2007 • Category: PEST, entrepreneurship, ideas

N-E-Life.com, the portal for North East England, has a short article on how to use the internet to develop your business idea.
The article focuses and points to resources you can use to help you develop your business plan. One interesting acronym that I discovered by reading this article is the PEST analysis (definition). […]



Get fresh business ideas from entrepreneur.com

By start-ip • Jun 19th, 2007 • Category: entrepreneurship, ideas

Entrepreneur.com has a nice section devoted to business ideas and where to find them. Check it out when you have a chance.