10 Years of Business Ideas
Over the past ten years I have started in on countless business startup ideas. This is a great example of how low percentage ‘my spaces’ and ‘facebooks’ are in their survival. These different ideas have been in many market spaces and targeting totally different groups of people, yet somehow none of them turned into the ‘next big thing’. Some made it to a usable web site status, some just a prototype, others just an idea and a photoshop mockup. Each time I switch to a new startup idea to be working on I archive all the work I had done on the previous one incase I have all kinds of ‘extra’ time at some point to go back and finish it just for fun.
At this point it looks unlikely that I will be going back and resurrecting these projects from the dead (especially at the rapidly evolving rate of change in todays technology industry). So I am going to start sharing them with the world, and if you have an inspiration — feel free to go ahead and use it. You can even feel free to send me huge gobs of money for the great idea I inspired..
My plan at this point is to start as far back as I can date wise, and do an entry a week on a different business (or variation of a business). This way I can recap what was good about them, what killed them, and maybe learn a bit from this whole process.
There are a few stealth things that I probably won’t be sharing, and many of these were in collaboration with other people so if I accidently post your inner most secret project you are still working on from seven years ago — please let me know.
To give you a small preview it looks like the next entry will be a few of my very early ventures lumped into one.. because when you are 15 it’s hard to concentrate on any one thing for too long. Upcoming startup recaps include (coronix.net and boxbay computers), stay tuned!
