Archive for the 'Business Ideas' Category
Monday, June 25th, 2007
I remember a discussion I had with a friend a while ago where he was convinced that if he was ever going to start a business, or invest in a commodity, he would invest in water. “It’s the biggest thing next to energy!” He cheered.
About two weeks ago I had an interesting meeting with [...]
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Wednesday, June 20th, 2007
I have a little sister who works for company that scans and digitizes legal documents. It is a fun little company that requires some initial contracts and some consistent employees, but appears nonetheless to be a relatively low maintenance company. I think that to own a company that only requires management [...]
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Tuesday, March 27th, 2007
During a recent business trip to vegas, I took the welcomed opportunity to eat at one of my favorite restaurants, The Cheesecake Factory.
Their chicken madeira is truly a cullinary marvel. The texture and flavor are satisfying to the last morsel.
Unfortunately, The Cheesecake Factory is all corporate owned. I called their corporate [...]
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Tuesday, January 16th, 2007
I have always been fascinated by business models which successfully integrate profitable business practices that measurably improve society.
Worldwide Book Drive doesn’t quite fit the criteria for this socially responsible business plan competition primarily because we don’t have any graduate students on the team. It is of course a minor technicality which [...]
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Friday, December 15th, 2006
I hear a lot of the statement, “John, I have this great idea…” The simple truth is there are billions of great ideas out there, but the person that makes it happen is truly unique.
Listed below is a basic frame-work I developed to teach an introductory class to help people without prior business experience [...]
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Friday, December 15th, 2006
We’ve recently adapted a sponsorship model into our work at Worldwide Book Drive, that integrates complimentary businesses into our book drive schedule. This is roughly the same price as pre-sorted postage, but offers a personalized introduction of the Worldwide Book Drive Sponsor to every home in Utah. (As the Worldwide Book Drive Program [...]
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Friday, December 1st, 2006
So we had a little fun with a inter-company competition of ping pong yesterday. A few of the guys from our little Books Collection and Redistribution company, (Worldwide Book Drive), met up with the guys and Sewelldirect.com and and suffered a clear defeat. It was a great break away from the daily grind [...]
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Monday, November 13th, 2006
Worldwide Book Drive (often cited as world wide book drive), is a small company with a huge vision. We have recieved a lot of positive feedback on our services and programs. We have a long ways yet to go, but I believe it’s on the right track.
The College Times recently did an article [...]
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Thursday, October 19th, 2006
When I was in 4th grade, I remember learning about the problem of landfill waste and drawing up what I felt was a grand concept to compost waste and create land in floating barges in the ocean. I drew up plans with areation modules, anchoring systems, etc. When I learned that the Japanese had [...]
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Saturday, October 7th, 2006
In my opinion, development costs are some of the scariest expenses of a business that integrates the web. Generally speaking, front end isn’t too bad, but a back-end that allows dyanmic interface and webmastery, not to mention shoppingcart and customer accounts can add up fast…
I was first introduced to offshore outsourcing by John Jonas, [...]
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