The best business ideas in the world
1. Send your best talent into the field in search of promising new ideas.
2. There's little U.S. consumers won't leave home for if the price is right.
3. Meet very basic customer needs with a radical new design.
4. Look for novel ways to breathe new life into mature categories.
5. Turn your shortcomings into a killer product idea.
6. Services that once required face time can be profitably handled online.
7. Find a desirable Third World niche product and industrialize it.
8. Test tech in markets where adoption is advanced, then bring it back to the States.
9. You don't have to run a global company from a major city; sometimes, in fact, it's better not to.
10. Even the oldest, most entrenched companies must continually evolve.
11. Success really can be a matter of inspiration and perspiration.
12. To catalyze radical change in a large organization, start small.
13. Take aim at new customers by making utilitarian products stylish.
14. Don't underestimate the profit potential of fun.
15. Use cheap guerrilla tactics to launch a company.
16. Create ways to allow more of your workers' personal lives inside company boundaries.
17. Solve a "last mile" problem with cheap hardware.
18. Attack local markets that big companies can't reach.
19. Sell services that piggyback on a booming retail trend.
20. Find yet-to-be-exploited niches in the global commodities bo |
