Ever think of an idea and someone else does it and makes a mint? I was reading
this and remembered that I had the idea for Grub Hub back in 1988. Well, not the internet part but the idea that you place an order with somebody not connected with a restaurant and they deliver it to you. When I thought of it I was delivering pizzas while I was laid off from a regular full time job. I thought "What if, instead of just pizza, people call me and place an order for a steak dinner from Gussie's or spaghetti from Papa Luigi's?" I didn't have the startup money for that, nor was I the salesman type to convince the restaurants that I was serious. I had already faced up to the truth that I couldn't even sell pussy in a lumber camp, much less a good idea to someone who slings hash for a living.
In the early '70s I came up with the idea of beer
fizzies. I had the revelation that if you were going back packing/camping it would be a giant pain in the ass to bring a heavy case of beer, but a foil package of 24 Fizzies weighs almost nothing. I told some people about it and they all came up with the same objections: It'll probably taste like ass and how do you get the alcohol into powdered form? I hadn't even thought of the problem of microbes in stream water like Giardia lamblia that causes
Giardiasis, or beaver fever. Man, that's some nasty ****. I found out a few years later that some Japanese guys tried doing it and gave up, so I guess not every cool idea is a good one. Just look at the Darwin Award winners for proof of that.
Have you ever had a really great idea that someone else ran with? Other than dating that hot nympho.
edit: I do have one that I'm still working on. I'm not giving any specifics, but it involves interest rates and mortgages. You are going to have to pay me a metric ****load of money for it.
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