Ideas as Profit Centers

"Everything that can be invented has been invented." -- Charles H. Duell, U.S. Commissioner of Patents, in 1899.

Technology has progressed so far passed the uneducated mind, that in order for a new technology to be found, one has to be a well-learned expert in a very specialized field. To create a new type of cell-phone, you'd have to be an expert in cell-phones, which comes with years of education and experience. New aircraft, televisions, fuels, etc. all require years and years of intellectual investment before they can be sufficiently and safely improved upon. Why then does Google exist? Sure, they're technological, but I wouldn't say Google is on the leading edge. Rather, Google exists because of their ability to use other people's inventions well. They didn't invent the internet, or the search engine, or advertising, but they took what had been made, and made it better. Apple has switched from a cutting edge inventor to a smart innovator. Its a business model based on ideas. The thought that something can be done better, by breaking it down to its most basic parts, and rebuilding it. The Google search engine, the Apple iphone. Not inventions, just products of a well thought vision that always kept the focus on the main goal of each product. There are so many opportunities to innovate; To make a successful business based on an idea, not necessarily on a better technology.

So picture this... A blog dedicated to refocusing on the basics, and exploring a business "idea." I'll be posting the many random business idea's I have. Some will be far-fetched, some just plane silly, and some will strike a cord within somebody who knows this idea will work. Discuss the ideas you like, and the ones you don't. Sooner or later, we're going to find that next great idea.