New Business Ideas

Well maybe I have had too much caffeine tonight but I really feel like I need to get this out. I kind of have the feeling like I'm bursting at the seams.

I've been reading a book by Chester Chadeaux, the founder of Quiktrip and thinking about how lots of people that have really been successful have come up with new and innovative ideas that have not been done before. In the case of Quiktrip, he was not the first one to come up with the idea for convenience stores obviously, but he was on the ground floor of the convenience store idea. Think about Bill Gates and Steve Jobs. Both innovators of the personal computer world. Another example: A friend of mine started his own laser tag business. Yes laser tag has been done before but not in this way. He reinvented it into a whole new genre of the laser tag game.

All of this got me to thinking that there has to be some new idea that somebody has not thought of yet or there is some existing thing or idea or business model that can be changed in enough of a way that people will want whatever it is that you are providing.

So why not get out there are get to work? Its not quite that easy. With technology and big businesses it is hard to think of an idea that has not been done already or something that hasn't been tried and failed. Now I'm not trying to cop out and say that there is nothing left out there to invent or new business ideas or improvements on existing things, but it defiantly is not as easy as back in the times before the industrial revolution when there was not much out there at all.

Unfortunately I don't have any ideas right now. I really wish that I could meet someone that has an idea and just doesn't have the time to make it happen or whatever. Right now would be a perfect time for me to pursue something new and very possibly risky because I really don't have that much to loose at this point in my life. I have almost unlimited time to put into anything that I want and hardly any obligations. I don't know what it is, maybe being bored out of my mind all the time and sitting at home doing nothing, but I really want some kind of idea to run with, if for nothing else but to occupy my time. If I just got even the slightest idea, at this point in time I think I would really like to just take it and see what I can do. I would be willing to work with someone if it were their idea, to get things rolling on whatever idea it is that they might have.

Basically, I don't want to work for anyone. I think I can be perfectly happy and successful working for myself and right now I am really motivated to do something about it. I am completly serious, if anyone is reading this and you have had some kind of idea for something that could be a really good business or even an idea to improve something please let me know. If you are busy with work and you just don't have the time to put into researching and really starting to get your idea rolling I would be more than happy to help you in working towards getting your idea started towards being a reality.

-Danny