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Free business idea: Start an e-brand in 2008
E-commerce in South Africa is frankly a barren wasteland.
The category is dominated by the usual old schoolyard bullies, which include the likes of click click Kalahari and Netflorist and then mostly a tidal wave of diamond diggers skeleton’s who’s prospecting pans have long since rusted as the late 90’s e-commerce hype faded into reality.
But, the [...]
Free business idea: Become an owner of the Blue Bulls
Just imagine if you were the owner of the Vodacom Blue Bulls rugby team.
You could drop Bryan Habana if he irritated you, buy Butch James back from his French club just to mix things up a bit and if you’re really good at it, make a few bucks on the side.
The closest most of us [...]
How to start your own ad agency
As Rui pointed out in the post below, the 80’s snarf-fest business model that most ad agencies are still built on is just a tad bit outdated.
It’s kind of like somebody still trying to sell asbestos as a home building material. It’s not good for you and there are alternatives to the way over-priced, well [...]
Cool business idea: Start a bank – and employ street kids to run it
Ok – so the idea here is to rethink everything you already believe about the little street urchins that are such hardened criminals they’ll stick a knife into you for their next hit of glue.
In India a bank called the Children’s Development bank is run and staffed by street children and caters exclusively for kids. [...]
Free business ideas: Dog related
It’s no secret that pet owners feel nothing to shell out loads of crisp notes to keep their pooches happy.
It makes sense then that there is a demand for a specialist dog toy outlet for rockstar Rover.
As you’d expect, there are a couple of foreign company’s slobbering all over this idea. We liked Dog Toys [...]
