Saturday, December 1, 2007

Infrastructure for Phones communicating over the internet

Once we are able to connect to the internet, all the communication is free. The founder of Jajah.com got the idea to create an infrastructure to utilize internet to send the data. The users are able to use their cell phones or landline phone, and Jajah.com connect them. Users goes to Jajah.com and put the phone number of the calling party and receiving party. Then, Jajah.com calls both parties, and connect them. International calls made through Jajah.com are alot cheaper than paying for cell phone and home phone charges.

Problem: Expensive to made long distance phone call nationally and internationally
Idea/Solution: Website + Internet + connect users by calling both parties
Site: http://jajah.com/

Friday, November 30, 2007

Allowing people to share video for billions

Digital video camera are getting very cheap. It is very easy for people to make and share videos. Youtube.com makes it easy for people to upload, share videos, and watch other people's videos. It's a website filled with videos. People create funny videos, instructional videos, music videos, and alot more. Youtube.com was acquired by Google for $1.65 billions.

Problem: Video files are big and takes alot of bandwidth
Idea/Solution: Website + Upload videos + share videos + watch other people's videos + collection of videos + Search capability
Site: http://youtube.com/

Thursday, November 29, 2007

Make it easy to plan events

Planning party and events is time consuming and takes alot of work. It's very helpful to invite people and get a response on how many people to plan the event for. Evite.com makes it easy to let people know about events and get a count of how many people are coming via email. With evite.com taking care of invitation and responses, you have more time to prepare the place, food, and activities. Evite.com is making millions.

Problem: Event planning is complicated and time consuming, it takes time to gather who can come
Idea/Solution: Website + email + invitation + response + free + easy tracking of people coming
Site: http://www.evite.com/

Wednesday, November 28, 2007

Create the Smart Shoppers' Gathering Place

Money is hard to earn. Everyone wants to get products cheaply. The founder of Fatwallet.com got a website that help shoppers share ideas, coupons, and sales. The retail stores have various sales and it is difficult for one person to find these deals and keep track of them, but when you have alot people with similar interest, it's alot easier to find these deals. People post deals on products and services that are on sale, and everyone can get these for cheap. Many pairs of eyes is better than one. The website is making millions.

Problem: Finding good deals on products and services is time consuming. Often it is difficult to find good deals.
Idea/Solution: Website + Users Posting deals + Users Taking advantage of deals
Site: http://fatwallet.com/

Tuesday, November 27, 2007

T-shirt with news

The founder of TheShirtProject.org got the idea to have the design of t-shirt based on the news. The t-shirt has the country shape and a diagram or a picture of the news event. Recently, the country of Myanmar has monks protesting due to a large increase in oil price, and the t-shirts with the map of Myanmar and Oil price with up arrow picture are printed.

Idea/Solution: News (country + problem) + t-Shirt
Site: http://www.theshirtproject.org/

Monday, November 26, 2007

Let people know how beautiful or handsome they are

Every young adult likes to know how beautiful or handsome they are. The founders of HOTorNOT.com got the idea to let people rate each other. HOTorNot.com allows users to post their picture and other users rate how beautiful or handsome they are. It also allow users to meet the user being rated. The website makes money from advertisement.
Problem: Every young adult likes to know how beautiful or handsome they are, but there is no reliable souce of feedback

Idea/Solution: Website + User posting photo + Thousands of other users rating the people in photos + Dating
Site: http://www.hotornot.com/

Sunday, November 25, 2007

An encyclopedia of business ideas

The web is very big and expanding rapidly. Every day more websites and blogs are created about Entrepreneur ideas. The founder of EntreWiki.com got the idea to create a website that has a large collection of business ideas and allows small business to make a page and advertise their business for $100 per page. It helps the small business by making it cheap to advertise and get words out about their business. It helps other entrepreneurs by having a big collection of business ideas in a central location. The website connect Entrepreneurs who are exploring new business ideas with Small businesses with products and services to sell. The site makes value addition to the customers (entrepreneurs and small businesses). As time goes on, this site will become more popular and small businesses will be buying pages to get the exposure they need.

Problem: Business ideas are spread out everywhere on the web, No central collection of business ideas, Expensive for small businesses to advertise online in popular Entrepreneur sites
Idea and Solution: Website + Small Business Ideas + Wiki + Entrepeneurs ==> EntreWiki.com
Site: http://entrewiki.com/

Educating, guiding, and selling customers fine jewelry for billions

Many people need fine jewelry for important events in their lives. Buying a special ring for engagement and marriage requires alot of work. It is very stressful trying to buy a good quality fine jewelry at reasonable price. The founder of BlueNile.com started the website to make the process easier. It has alot of information on fine jewelry selection and it sells at a reasonable price. The website is worth billions.

Problem: Buying fine jewelry is tedious and stressful due to lack of information and trust
Idea/Solution: Website + Education + Guidance + sell jewelry ==> easy process
Site: http://www.bluenile.com/