Category Archives: Business Ideas

Real Estate Data Services

Posted on June 27, 2008 by

This is my final business review from the high school era, however this one is especially important because it forced me to get my hands dirty with some serious database work and made me write more php boiler plate than I had ever dreamed up until this point. FYI, the person driving this business was a teacher at my high school (his last name goes in the graphic above).. that I never took a class from. He had spent a … Continue reading →

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UpNorth Web Design Inc.

Posted on June 23, 2008 by

This is more of a side note, but since I did find our logo while I was looking through my backups today I figured I might as well do a short post. UpNorth Web Design took many of the ideas from my previous small ventures about doing contract web design/development and made them a little bit more realistic. At this point I was working with a guy who was pretty decent with graphic design, and another guy who was a … Continue reading →

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BoxBay Computers Inc.

Posted on June 23, 2008 by

As promised, my first entry in a line of startups that never happened is about ‘BoxBay Computers Inc.’. Conception The original idea came from a trip to CompuCare to buy a bunch of computer parts for a machine I was building. I drug along a friend of mine and my parents probably have a better idea of when exactly this was — but I am going to guess the summer of 1997 or 1998. The idea was that if a … Continue reading →

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10 Years of Business Ideas

Posted on June 23, 2008 by

Over the past ten years I have started in on countless business startup ideas. This is a great example of how low percentage ‘my spaces’ and ‘facebooks’ are in their survival. These different ideas have been in many market spaces and targeting totally different groups of people, yet somehow none of them turned into the ‘next big thing’. Some made it to a usable web site status, some just a prototype, others just an idea and a photoshop mockup. Each … Continue reading →

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