I’ll often suggested that keeping your idea secret for fear that others will steal it is unnecessary and actually makes it harder to bring your idea to come fruition. I usually suggest that being a successful entrepreneur is 1% Inspiration and 99% Perspiration.

It’s one of the reasons I’m happy to share my business ideas on [...]

There’s something magical about watching fish swim and the Ithaa undersea restaurant really uses that magic to full effect. The up-market eatery, which opened to the public in 2005, is situated several metres below the Indian Ocean at the Hilton Maldives Resort and Spa on Rangali Island.

The restaurant, which cost around $5 million to build [...]

This is one of the more novel business ideas I’ve come across. Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd, United Nations University and a range of other academic and industrial supporters have teamed up and turned an old cruise ship into an oceangoing campus. The ship has even been renamed “The Scholar Ship”!
Students will spend 16 weeks aboard [...]

Recently I’ve been watching Traffic Cops and Road Wars two programmes that follow British Police officers in traffic cars (and often the traffic helicopter) as they handle a range of drivers from those with no tax, MOT, insurance or license to high speed pursuits escaping from another crime scene.
After watching several episodes of each it [...]

Have you ever found yourself desperately looking for a public toilet in a new city? I certainly have and sometimes there just isn’t a friendly stranger on hand to ask - but what if you could phone a friend, or at very least text them? Well that’s what a new San Francisco based business does.

MizPee [...]

On Monday I had to visit a customer in London and while browsing the bookshop at Paddington station I came across the book of Kyle MacDonald’s One Red Paperclip. It’s an amazing story of how MacDonald made a series of trades starting with a single red paperclip and ending with a house.
SwitchPlanet.com is a new [...]

The Business Twins posted an article How Teens Can Make Money This Summer which gives some great advice for teenagers and students looking for a summer job. What really caught my eye though was the last point on self employment, where they say:

“…paint address numbers on the sidewalk. I remember moving into our new house and a [...]

Over the last week I’ve been posting child friendly business ideas, these are business ideas that have occurred to me as I’m facing becoming a Dad for the first time. The ideas have been:

Wedding Crèches
Starting A Children’s Nursery
Child Friendly Restaurant
Maternity Pillows
New Baby Starter Kits
Baby Gift Lists
Start A Parenting Blog

Lets face it we all turn to the Internet these days for information, advice or just to chat to other people that share our problems, interests or hobbies. So if you fancy starting a child/parent friendly business and the Internet interests you why not start a blog about being a parent.
There are of course many [...]

As soon-to-be parents we keep being asked two questions by friends and family:

Is it here yet?
What can we buy it as a gift? What’s so and so getting, so I don’t get the same?

Well no, it’s not here yet and I’ve no idea what to suggest as a gift, as I don’t know if/what other [...]