10,000 Brilliant Ideas

My wife just bought the 4th pair of identical pants for our son. Well they are identical except for the size. This isn't the only time we've owned multiple identical articles of clothing in different sizes. It seems quite necessary with growing kids. So why not on the Gap web site, when you select a pair of small pants does it not give you the option to "buy the next 3 sizes and get 15% off!" Then you get 4 pairs in the mail, save a little and Gap rakes it in.

A grocery service that  monitors  your pantry with an app that scans  bar codes  or let's you check off ingredients when you use them. Alerts you when things will expire or when you're going to run out. Could also be melded with a grocery service that prepares your basket for you with your staples before you come in. This breaks the "put the milk at the back of the store so you have to browse everything else first" model, but it could easily introduce a much more friendly "here's what you usually get and here's what we think you might like" concept. And of course you can have the pick up station at the back of the store too.

We hire you. You pick a business plan to develop You make it happen You benefit from growth as well as us You have options later of buying us out or something else. Kind of a business incubator idea, but we pay you. You get job security and get to be your own boss. We own partial rights to your start-up with the ability to negotiate purchase down the road. We put up capital and know-how of senior entrepreneurs on your team. After one of your ideas takes off, you become the senior entrepreneur to help someone else succeed. This idea keeps coming back to me. The ultimate goal would be to hire and make financially comfortable as many people as possible (including me). This idea is also scalable. Scalable like a fractal. Since support is local to the project, once rolling there's no reason it can't roll very quickly. The scope of supported projects is that it has to "make life better for people". It is designed to be socially responsible from the outset and ...

Sure we have video chat and on-line meetings, but how about a full-on on-line conference? I'm imagining a second life sort of experience (do meetings exist in second life?) where everyone has an avatar and buzzes about a virtual conference hall, checking out booths, talking with people, going into rooms and watching presentations, etc. I'm imagining a proper conference fee (to weed out the weirdos), and a full real-time audio-visual experience. Following the trend of all things virtual, first it tries to replicate real life, making it as easy to talk with someone or ask about a product as it is in a real conference. Then if that works bring in the flying cars,  pegasuses, etc. Alternatively, my brain imagines a real-conference that is only attended by remotely controlled robots. So the only humans at the conference are organizers in charge of keeping the robots up-right. But likely this is just an art experiment (which doesn't mean I don't want to do it). UPDATE R...

This is a very basic business model that's success probably relies on its simplicity and firstness to succeed. Simply this: A hired amateur photographer with a cool camera (or at least a cool lens) attends a school event, let's say a high school football game wearing a T-shirt that reads "check out these photos at That'sMe.com". The photographer shoots oodles of cool photos, making sure to get at least one good shot of everyone in the game. She then goes home, uploads all the good ones, labels them by jersey number, writes up a little blurb about the event and that's all. Meanwhile savvy parents log on, look at the impressive shots of their little one and either buy the .jpg file or order prints. Stratified pricing structure makes it possible for everyone to get something - from the rich mom wanting a walnut framed print, to a fellow student who wants some locker decor, to a low-res file for facebook. Easily franchiseable. Relatively untouchable by "the b...