We get some funny looks from some of the visitors to our house. They are surprised to find our living room floor covered with taped up old cardboard boxes. The boxes are great, our son enjoys playing in and around them, pulling himself up on them and his dad (that’s me) really enjoys building a [...]

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Last week Jonathan Fields wrote an article which caught my eye. In the article he explains how working from home it’s always easy enough to exercise in summer, but like many of us he’s not so keen in winter when it’s wet cold and windy outside. He’s found a solution however that allows him to [...]

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Following on from the earlier post about Borders new approach to selling books it occurred to me that there is a way around the lower inventory that they are able to stock and therefore a way to compete with the massive (almost infinite) selection that Amazon offers.
Consider this, what if you could walk into your [...]

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I came across a post this afternoon titled Untapped Niches and the Mile High Club in which the Michael Gray says:

… tonight I came across a story about a mile high tower being built somewhere and it triggered a thought. Why doesn’t someone run a private jet service that caters exclusively to people who want [...]

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If you’ve ever experienced the frustration of trying to get into your car after some idiot parks too close, or not being able to use a parking space because someone has parked across two space then you’ll no doubt be tempted to buy some stickers from IParkLikeAnIdiot.com. I know I’m tempted!
The stickers are designed to [...]

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I’ve recently been watching Paradise or Bust, it’s a documentary following the first year of TribeWanted.com. Tribewanted describes itself as a unique community tourism project that is simultaneously based on Vorovoro Island, Fiji and online. The Tribe (community) are working to build a simple sustainable village on a Fujian island. Members of the tribe each [...]

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Several years ago I met up with a successful entrepreneur in London to discuss a business idea, the idea was a “business in a box” - everything you’d need to start your own business in one go. Unfortunately I let that opportunity slip through my fingers because I didn’t feel in a position to really [...]

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The Meal, Ready-to-Eat, or MRE is a self-contained, individual field ration in lightweight packaging used by the US military for its service-members for use in combat or other field conditions where canteen facilities are not available. It contains everything needed to feed a soldier, including a drink, starter, main course, desert, eating utensil and a [...]

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Last week I was telling a chap I’d met about this blog, explaining that I write about business opportunities and ideas that interest me. He though it sounded great and promptly asked me for a list of small business ideas. Naturally I suggested he read the blog.
Since then however, I’ve been reading about organisation structure [...]

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This business idea is a twist on the British tradition of the “pub crawl”. It’s a mobile bar that takes you on a pub crawl around several London pubs. I expect it would go down well with stag and hen parties!

I’m not quite sure how this is affected by the licensing laws, or even the [...]

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