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TheGuru
Location: Waterloo, Ontario, CA
Member Since: May 25, 2007
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Instead of talking about myself, better to list some requisites I'd like to see on CH: 1. "Business idea" - an product or service that can support a viable business. 2. "Business" - a vehicle that makes money for shareholders/owners (otherwise it's called a charity) 3. For seed startups, it is required to have a proprietary product or a defensible patent. 4. Without a patent, you will not get real VC money which rules out most CH ideas here. 5. To get a patent, the product or process MUST be NEW. It cannot simply be a slight modification of existing products. It cannot be just a concatenation of some existing products joined with duct tape. 6. There is a thing called Google which you can use to search to see if your idea has been previously implemented, or discarded. 7. CH is a crowdsourcing experiment, but that doesn't mean that ALL products or services can benefit from democracy or P2P. Every heard of "design by committee" ? 8. This is the internet, but it is not an excuse to use poor language, incorrect spelling, bad grammar etc. If you cannot even write in your own language, why should someone expect that you can do anything else? 9. The internet provides a enormous resource - use it! Google, Wikipedia etc. are a starting point for educating yourself about the product/service area for your idea. For eg. if you have an idea for an perpetual motion machine, you'd better study physics! 10. Before submitting an obviously stupid business or product idea, THINK! - does it already exist? is it new? - is it viable, can I build it? (engineering etc.) - how will it make money? (10%+ margin?) - if it's a product, who will buy it? why? - how much money will you need ? - is it legal? - can you defend it, easily copied? (eg China) - does it fill a need, soothe a pain? - how will you sell and distribute it? - what will it sell for, how much profit? - can you actually deliver quantity X/year?
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Well if I do understand what you're saying....then great ideas is the inevitable intellectual property hahahahaha. You should patent that, because it will bend your mind until you find yourself ending the world for permeating thought. it'll drive you crazy, but you'll be rich.
Your profile includes both "an product or service" and "This is the internet, but it is not an excuse to use poor language, incorrect spelling, bad grammar."
You are annoying.
Hmmm... this profile is one of the most idea assertive and tuned to educate us-submitter... gr8 mind really up there!
Think of CH as a distributed committee.
As for your product scope, seems mostly hardware and physical products. Think software. Web products are definitely the best scope for CH.
Also within this scope patent is not by anymeans be all and end all.
Wow, how about some formatting.
I agree with a fair bit but not all of what you mention. The negative tone makes it sounds like a moan. I could have been a constructive and positive manifesto instead.
I coin unpractical Ideas teleporters, it has less syllables than perpetual motion machine.
Thank's for clearing all the up dude. You ever think of making a spell checker?
Oh and your to post these comments on other peoples water coolers, not your own.
I have many ideas, including several I'm developing. I haven't put any on CH because unlike most of the ideas I've seen here, mine are good ones, and I don't want someone ripping them before I've had a chance to develop and patent them. In the meantime, I'll point out the flaws with other people's ideas, to balance out all the Pollyannas that can only say "cool man, great idea, go for it", even for the lamest idea! My view is that if I can't find anything wrong with an idea, and nobody else can either, then it must be perfect, right? I HAVE told people where I like and support an idea, suggested viable improvements, and using sound engineering principles. BTW, that's "you're" which is a contraction for "you are". "Your" is used for the possessive.
TheGuru how come you don't have any idea's and you don't even have the Pwned It award, are you sure your TheGuru?
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