What about supplying the raw goods to manufacturers?

Or a contract manufacturing operation in the village, where you manufacture the goods for companies with their branding/labels?

There are a couple different ways you can approach it if there is demand for your fruit/veg. The hardest plan would be building your own brands, IMO.

I know that produce from the village gets taken to the capital. So, I don't think supplying the raw goods is even worth thinking about. It's being done and way better than I could do.

So building a brand does seem very tough so I like the one in the middle.

I make something nice/desireable/cheap and show it to a brand. If they like it, we go big and they handle all the complexities. There is a good chance my products are not being made at this price point. But I must further research. I could actually test a drink, chocolate bar, sauce and soap to find the one with the best price to taste to external demand ratio.

One of the only things I would bring to the table (besides the products/source, though anyone can find this), is trust and a working relationship due to my gf's family's standing in the community.

Really appreciate all and any advice.

How about a site like fiverr/elance/odesk aimed at university students? The site would liaise with universities and when companies would post jobs these would be passed on directly to students in that field from the sites knowledge of what courses do what. Things like web design work, simple logo design, some video editing, report writing, translation, coding etc. This would provide potential employers with access to a lot of future graduates and will be able to test the potential experience of future employees.

Odd jobs would then lead the students to be in contact with potential employers after graduating.

Students get some money for the jobs they provide, get industry experience and access to industry contacts. Employers get to test the future employees and get less expensive work done in the short term and future workers who already have been trialed by them or other companies.

Could also include a job board aimed at recent graduates where past work done by students on the site can be part of their portfolio on their cv.

micros, I like the idea

Also, apparently slideshare links are blocked on here now, but if you google "slideshare theryananderson final project" it should be the first result

This is a viable idea that can potentially become big money/buyout if executed well.

maybe not quite the same thing as a fiverr/elance/odesk, but MindSumo has something pretty similar to this. you have to be a college student (need a .edu e-mail as default, but if you're a student and don't have one they will verify you manually). they have arrangements with a bunch of companies like Coke/Marriott/etc. where they post actual engineering/marketing-type issues they have. students pick a challenge they'd like to solve and prizes are given for the best ideas (i haven't used it for a while but when i did typically ~20-25% of entries would get paid something. you also get to see the other students' proposals/sketches/etc. which can be cool sometimes).

their selling point for students is that they give some free amount of money in your account for signing up ($30? can't remember), and there's additional easy things you can do like sharing on social media for a bit more. anyway, i think the freebies max out at $85 and they require a min $100 for the initial cashout, so you have to either a) solve one of the challenges, or b) use their affiliate marketing promo code thing to get other signups (will refrain from posting mine here -.-).

overall i didn't use it much but thought it was a pretty neat business model. they also provide avenues to contact companies/post resumes/etc.

A frozen yogurt shop.

Have another trainingsite concept on my mind for a while now. Which I think would be very low in cost. The idea is that you need 1 or more top playes make some vids. In order to watch those vids you need to make your own strat vid. (This would be arranged on the site itself,if possible?) Other people than can watch your vids and rank them for quality. Once you reached a certain percentage of 'likes' on your video,you are allowed to move up to the next ladder and watch vids from players above you. If this gets big enough you can not only seperate on skill but later one also on language. Players who dont go up in the ladder because of bad ratings can pay for a ladderjump at every end of the month. The top 5 (or whatever) videos will remain restricted for the one's with the highest top ranking. This will hopefully make sure everybody has something to gain.

you have exceeded the number of private messages you can receive, so i figured i would post in this thread.

gas delivery is a cool idea, i wouldnt pay for such a thing but i figured you cant be alone who would, actually been brainstorming it a bit, out of curiosity, how much would you pay per month for such a service? how often do you go to gas stations currently?
20$?
30$?
up to 50$?

i have to do a market study in my area for this, it would (probably) be launched with an app where a user pays a monthly fee for an account and can ask for essence delivery at work or home in the next 24-48 hours

theres quite a few problems i need to figure out but i am interested in your input for sure.

also would you expect a service like this to fill up every vehicles at your home?

edit : would probably do a membership fee of XX$ + 5$ per "registered" vehicles, meaning the service will fill up every registered vehicles at this location upon request by the user (simple "request a fill up" options in the app with a few check marks

Surely there are regulations against having a gas tanker rolling around suburbia. You'd probably have to take each client's car to a gas station to fill up.

Interesting.You mean fuel transoort regulations? Didn't think about that at all

Edit: well.
I wouldnt really be using a tank truck tho.

Cant.edit my post above
There is a way around but it's a pain in the ass. Its all french so no point posting here. The total mass of the product (and container) must be inferior to 150kg. Every container must be under 30kg.

Badge - Requesting assistance assistance
In emergency situations access to a fast method of asking for immediate help from those nearby. If you were to be mugged couldn't an emergency alert sent from your phone to all other users who would be inclined to come help. The immediate GPS positioning of a distress button could be quicker than any 911 call.The concept of asking for immediate assistance for any help can be applied to any circumstance and request. Did a pipe break? Hit the plumber badge. Users can select what criteria of requests they are capable of responding to.

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Short term space rental. Do you need an office to work in, or a space for a party? This includes yard space, anything indoors or outdoors can be rented. Providers offerings and availabilities to searchers through an app and website.

CropSharer
Find high quality food is difficult, sharecropper address this need by making people personal grocers. If a person must eat in an area that is void of foods they would like they could search to see if anyone nearby has offerings they want. The grocer keeps inventory of extra food and they also may provide meals. This app allows grocers to easily list what they can provide and for eaters to find more options.

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Personal stream sharing service from camera/phone that lists streamers up with people wanting to enjoy watching others lives. All streams are uploaded and sorted based on criteria of sharer and watcher. There is a community area where a current streamer is the king of the mountain getting their glory while less popular streamers below continue to vie for attention. The desire for fame and entertainment is harnessed into a simple platform for sharing your content and watching others. It's like HangW/ and Twitch and would be an app and website.



Feedback on any of these ideas is appreciated.

1. So it's kinda like LifeAlert bracelets? I can see the value in having an alternate way to contact authorities immediately after something happens (like your phone getting stolen) but I doubt you're going to get a ton of people to buy something like that.

2. Are you talking about creating a provider of these rental spaces or a marketplace for them? The first can be done as a smaller business (compared some crazy huge venture-backed business) and the second probably functions better by trying to go big, but I think you're going to run in to a bunch of hurdles getting all those small business to adopt your platform.

3. Can you explain this one a little more? I think you're talking about a way for small farmers to reach customers directly, and if so there are some companies out there trying that right now (http://www.localroots.com/) but no one is killing it.

4. What's the difference between this and something like Periscope or Meerkat?

Well I think one of the selling points is that it would be there for you medically. What about in any emergency though, what if all you had to do was press a button.

it would be a marketplace for rentals like airbnb. I think any business that could use it to make extra money would eagerly do so should the process be simple enough.

farmers reaching customers directly would be great and the app would hopefully be used for that but I think the bulk of the usage would be from people who would pay to have their preferred foodstuffs anywhere they went.

Do those apps have voting and a fame system?

Love looking at videos and pictures from the ISS. So, launch a satellite into LEO with one of these (Jaunt camera system) on it:



Then charge Occulus Rift users to view the Earth from space.

Sometime in the last year I posted itt with an idea. I don't know how to search threads on my phone, but a slight modification of my idea is about to be on the market.
https://m.facebook.com/story.php?sto...257353%2F&_rdr

Two words: hipster minigolf.

http://www.urbanputt.com/

I agree though. There is a market for a lot more of them.

Oscar

Yeah - I saw that one. Great place for aging hipsters to take their kids.

My gf and I want to create one in or around Loz Feliz called Astro Golf. It would be in the 50s futurist theme with lots of cheesy Jetsons-looking spaceships and things. We'd try to remain as true to what an original would look like in the 60s as possible. Ideally we could find some old stuff in storage that actually was from a miniature golf course that closed down or something.

We would also create some fun holes – like one would feature the space restaurant at LAX. Another would feature the alien from alien. His inner mouth comes out and you have to get the ball inside it. So it wouldn't have to all be retro – just sci-fi - but retro would be the theme

Also of course we would have beer and delicious classic concession food – but made fresh and super high-quality. How about an alcoholic ICEE machine? My GF and I got into a little tiff on whether or not the burgers would be allowed to have arugula on them. I'll concede on that if she wants fancy burgers. But we both agree no annoyingly hipster bull**** food like chicken waffle skewers.

But then we both realized we have fairly involved careers no plans to quit our jobs anytime soon. So someone else needs to get out there and create this thing.

How about Escape Rooms?

They're growing in popularity in NA & Europe - similar industry to mini golf but alot lower space requirement (lower rent).

To give an example, this one recently opened in my area http://www.trappedlubbock.com/. I actually was curious if it would be fad'ish or sustainable.

I think the main problem with escape rooms is the lifetime customer value. If LCV is just one entry, it likely won't be a good business but if you can upsell/get them to come back, it can be lucrative.

So, how do you get them to come back?

You have multiple rooms and refresh / rotate rooms every X months (6-12?). You can only get 1 sale per customer per room that you have, but the goal is to get a high volume of new customers rather than a small volume of re-occurring players.

Margins can be quite high (300%+) but long term sustainability is questionable?

sounds like a fad