If you make a ton of money, people will take you seriously and respect your business venture.

If you don't, this just sounds like a hobby masquerading as business.

That said, I think your approach to getting into a good bschool is a sound one. I'm just not sure it selling Magic cards will be enough...

If I can get the backing or FTP paid me the money it owes me, I could grow exponentially quicker. I would also be looking to turn into a retail store online for games, which is insanely lucrative if done correctly.

I want it to just be one or two things on the resume, really. Realistically going back to school and getting a 2nd bachelor's degree though to show some academic improvement and maturity.

It can only help.

Just make sure to sell it properly.

Eg not "I sell magic cards and make a little bit of money"

Basically sell all the skills you've learnt in the process.

Yeah, I mean it's all about what you do with it.

I know a kid who had little experience in comparison, but also made http://www.thatone08.com/ and sold a few hundred grand in merchandise. Being able to show that you can execute on an idea and scale it is a big BIG plus.

Insurance, similar to FDIC coverage, for individual investors.

Lots of upper middle to upper class people invest their money with an independent broker or hedge fund or whatever. When they find out their guy is a Madoff, they lose everything.

The idea would be to require documentation from the financial advisor/broker/fund manager that would be very hard to fake, thus limiting claims and allowing for affordable premiums (less than .5% of assets under management).

This is pretty impressive.

Probably required superb timing, promotion and getting suppliers lined up.

I have an idea for a zombie movie called night of the living animals. Where instead of humans coming back from the dead it's animals. Jeneus I know. I see it as kind of a cross between night of the living dead, the birds, and maximum overdrive.

Will let you all know when I have my kickstarter page set up.

Looking at all the other crappy scripts on Amazon Studios, this has potential.

I have this idea for a website were companies/individuals buy opinions from people. It can be regarding anything and be in a survey form or whatever. The best opinions (according to the business buying the service) get paid which creates the incentive to really give good advice/opinions on what the company is requesting. sellyouropinion.com or something like that.

What does everyone think about "copying" start ups in other countries?

For example, I could look at the abundance of high growth start ups in specific countries or regions and then adapt them to another country before they even have the experience and capital to go international.

There are a lot of advantages IMO of doing this, such as:

- a proven market; save a ****load of $$$ on testing products/markets
- publicity; people from other countries may prefer to go with a local company if they are interested about the "original" company
- funding; I would assume that investors are willing to invest in a business where it has been successful elsewhere

Most businesses are not unique, so why not build a fresh and potentially high growth business?

Who gives a **** if its copying? I certainly won't when I am banking 10k/day

I can recite numerous examples of where this has happened, most commonly between US/Silicon Valley >> Europe

Proven business model and a lot of people trying to do exactly this.

Google around for a story of the two German brothers. They are copying everything under the sun to introduce to Euro markets - and willing to pour XX million into each attempt. They have some big successes also.

Samwer brothers, iirc there were 3 of them though

For me that really drove the point home that execution is everything

Not saying the plot is exactly the same, but it would certainly make people remember of this movie and the book it was taken:http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098084/

What do people think about this idea:

Retweets for Sweets (resweets.com)

We're running this competition at the moment:
https://twitter.com/Scirra/status/217565827904442368

And after doing it I think it'd make a cool web service, as a company looking for promotion on Twitter you pay resweets.co.uk £20 or whatever, and they will host the competition for you, randomly pick winners and dispatch the prizes.

It would be fun/quick to develop, but I just don't have time to. If someone else makes it please PM me URL when it's done so I can use it

It depends where you live but I think for some markets there would be a market for Gluten Free products...My folks can't eat gluten and they go to like 6 different groceries stores to get different stuff....plus there is all sorts of products they can't get in Quebec that they could get in Ontario/NY state...If you delivered maybe 10-15 of these items plus price club/costco you could probably over charge for delivery.