Dragons Den Business Ideas

[Milltown Row2]

An app that can get your kids to clean their rooms!!!! I'd buy that

[Olly]

An obituary website that does like deaths in the coming days. For example random family or friends. People will browse it in their millions in fear.

[Billys Boots]

An app that can get your kids to clean their rooms!!!! I'd buy that

Put me down for one also!

[BEASTY]

Have to do a presentation for uni of a new business idea / product / service, whatever it is, in sort of a Dragons Den type thing as part of a business enterprise module.

Only problem is everything I think of I google and it's already been done or bombed.

Anyone got any ideas, serious or not that they think could work?

Doesn't have to be golden but just give me something to show.

So far I have mused:

- A standardised qualifications website where everyone is listed with all their qualifications etc, sort of like a credit report website but that employers etc could access. For a fee.

- An app to find your car in a car park. Which I found out has been done.

- Airport creches for over here. Then when I googled it found out Dublin airport are getting one shortly.

I'm stuck.

Hello,


As someone who has done a very similar course and now has half a dozen businesses I would suggest you do not need to think about something that is going to blow their tops.

What they are most likely looking for is some kind of plan on how you would bring your idea to life, as someone has already said most businesses are copies of others and although not everything has been done expecting each student to come up with something entirely fresh is never going to happen.

I would make this easy on yourself, identify a popular product, segment the market and work out a special way to exploit the niche.

So you have Apple phones
You have covers
You can get original designs for covers, UK design, china built and so on..

IF YOU DO invent something NEW, leave uni and enjoy your wealth (Give me a call too)


Signed, your friend

[supersarsfields]

Car heater that doesn't rely on the feckin engine to throw out a bit of hate on a cauld morning in a frozen car.

and/or

Windscreens that don't frost up

Or a remote that will switch the car on and start to heat it up/ Defrost the windows without me having to go out and turn it on.

[Bingo]

A device that prevents Tony Fearon from starting new topics....or better again just prevents him from using the Internet in any form.

[ONeill]

Car heater that doesn't rely on the feckin engine to throw out a bit of hate on a cauld morning in a frozen car.

and/or

Windscreens that don't frost up

Or a remote that will switch the car on and start to heat it up/ Defrost the windows without me having to go out and turn it on.

You can currently buy one of these in one of those magazines that do dog baskets and winter boots and other such shite.

I always thought that having a computerised drinks ordering and paying terminal at each table in (bigger) pubs would have appeared before now. Always a pain in the backside in a crowded bar (a) trying to get to the bar in the first place (b) remembering what everyone ordered (c) trying to cart the whole thing back down again. I know decent places will have waiter service but sometimes its a curse getting their attention. Easy enough to implement a wireless terminal on each terminal which you order through and pay via credit/debit card, then voila in a minute or two drinks are at the table.

Yea, I like this idea. And you can decide who bring the drinks to you - like robots dressed up as, say, Pamela Ballantine or something like that.

[supersarsfields]

Sallys has a couple of tables with the pumps on the table. You just buy as many pints as you want and then pull them yourself. Never used it tho.