1. Million Dollar Homepage
1000000 pixels, charge a dollar per pixel – that’s perhaps the dumbest idea for online business anyone could have possible come up with. Still, Alex Tew, a 21-year-old who came up with the idea, is now a millionaire.
2. PickyDomains
Hire another person to think of a cool domain name for you? No way people would pay for this. Actually, naming domain names for others turned out a thriving business, especially, when you make the entire process risk free. PickyDomains currently has a waiting list of people who want to PAY the service to come up with a snappy memorable domain name. PickyDomains is expected to hit six figures this year. Full Story
3. Doggles
Create goggles for dogs and sell them online? Boy, this IS the dumbest idea for a business. How in the world did they manage to become millionaires and have shops all over the world with that one? Beyond me.
4. LaserMonks
LaserMonks.com is a for-profit subsidiary of the Cistercian Abbey of Our Lady of Spring Bank, an eight-monk monastery in the hills of Monroe County, 90 miles northwest of Madison. Yeah, real monks refilling your cartridges. Hallelujah! Their 2005 sales were $2.5 million! Praise the Lord. Full Story
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By amber
on September 19th, 2007 in Columns, Business Ideas
The Record:
Nine-year-old inventor Leigh Zink got the idea for his Lure Buddy device last year and has since developed a business selling it.
The Lure Buddy is a simple device, but one that solves a couple of problems for avid anglers.
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By amber
on September 18th, 2007 in Columns, Success Story
Some drugs are good, and some drugs are bad. It’s paying too much that’s always sad.Let’s have a look at Express Scripts, Inc.
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By winston
on September 17th, 2007 in Columns, Investing
Santa Cruz Sentinel:
A doodle netted Jared Fiorovich $5,000 and the only person who wasn’t surprised was him.
“I’m always imagining things,” says the 18-year-old Aptos teen who drew a sketch of an iPod shuffle case that doubles as a keychain and bottle opener to win a design competition at the MacWorld show. “Like sometimes I can’t get to sleep and I’ll just jot something down.”
At the design contest set up by 20-year-old whiz kid Ben Kaufman, Fiorovich thought about how, since he used a skateboard as his main form of transportation, he needed to have things compact and efficient so they would fit in his pockets.
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By amber
on September 16th, 2007 in Columns, Success Story