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Old 06-22-2005, 06:57 PM
Alobar Alobar is offline
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Default Have you ever had an idea, someone else made successful?

I've had a couple. Way back in 95 I had the idea for a website, where you could send in your picture and have people tell you if you were good looking or not. Obviously that one got done.

When I was 13 I decided it would be awesome to make a toilet bowl that was also a fish tank. Couple years ago I was thumbing through a magazine and saw the same idea for sale.

A few years ago while I was driving around delivering pizza I was struck with the brilliant idea to run a car lot, where people who wanted to sell their own cars would just park it in my lot instead of on random street corners, and then pay me a fee. Heh, I called my then girlfriend at the time to tell her my brilliant idea and she said "uhm...yeah, they already have those....dumbass". oh well, at least I was right and it was a good idea [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img] The other two tho I know I came up with first, im just lazy and never tried them out.

Anyone else got any?
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Old 06-22-2005, 07:00 PM
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Default Re: Have you ever had an idea, someone else made successful?

It was my idea to redo the restaurant at the top of the Chrysler building.

You see I come up with these things, I know they’re gold, but nothing happens. You know why?
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Old 06-22-2005, 07:02 PM
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Default Re: Have you ever had an idea, someone else made successful?

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It was my idea to redo the restaurant at the top of the Chrysler building.

You see I come up with these things, I know they’re gold, but nothing happens. You know why?

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no resources, no skill, no talent, no ability, no brains
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Old 06-22-2005, 07:03 PM
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Default Re: Have you ever had an idea, someone else made successful?

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It was my idea to redo the restaurant at the top of the Chrysler building.

You see I come up with these things, I know they’re gold, but nothing happens. You know why?

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no resources, no skill, no talent, no ability, no brains

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No, no time! It’s all this meaningless time. Laundry, grocery, shopping, coming in here talking to you. Do you have any idea how much time I waste in this apartment?
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Old 06-22-2005, 07:03 PM
Patrick del Poker Grande Patrick del Poker Grande is offline
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Default Re: Have you ever had an idea, someone else made successful?

I honestly thought of MP3 players a while before I ever heard of the iPod (or any other player). If only I had the resources at the time...
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Old 06-22-2005, 07:03 PM
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[censored] Tony Little...

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Old 06-22-2005, 07:04 PM
Patrick del Poker Grande Patrick del Poker Grande is offline
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[censored] Tony Little...



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POTD.
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Old 06-22-2005, 07:04 PM
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Default Re: Have you ever had an idea, someone else made successful?

Before the low carb craze I thought I should open a store that specialized in low carb type foods. This was in '98 or '99. I saw one last year but I don't think its there anymore so I guess I dodged a bullet.
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Old 06-22-2005, 07:05 PM
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In 1998, I was a senior in college and my good friend and I talked seriously about starting a company that published digital photos for customers. The service would include an online service to allow customers to choose/crop photos they wanted and then send printouts to their address. We never really got past the talking stage and ditched the idea mostly due to a lack of funding or knowledge of how to raise that money.

I think Ofoto and Snapfish both came along in 1999.
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Old 06-22-2005, 07:05 PM
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It was my idea to redo the restaurant at the top of the Chrysler building.

You see I come up with these things, I know they’re gold, but nothing happens. You know why?

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no resources, no skill, no talent, no ability, no brains

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No, no time! It’s all this meaningless time. Laundry, grocery, shopping, coming in here talking to you. Do you have any idea how much time I waste in this apartment?

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I can ball park it
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