Once a week I get an email from Springwise, filled with business ideas, which sometimes inspires other creative thinking. Here's the latest:
Hi Scott,
It's time for your weekly fix of entrepreneurial ideas! The latest Springwise is now online.
Here's a quick run-down of the business concepts featured in this edition:
A status story for spinach
Food & beverage / Marketing & advertising
We've written about product life stories before -- identifiers that link a
commodity to its (agricultural) origin. Unlike our previous spottings, the
latest example isn't fair-trade or organic.
Cell phone workshops by teenage teachers
Education / Telecom & mobile
While you may never be too old to learn, when it comes to gadgets,
you can never be too young to teach. A Dutch initiative is making use
of kids’ innate cell phone skills by training them as phone coaches.
Saving for a goal, with a little help from your friends
Financial services
The notion of saving up for something might sound antiquated, but
web start-up SmartyPig is building a business on offering consumers
a safe and secure way to save towards a specific goal.
Customizing IKEA
Homes & housing
Out of IKEA's millions of customers, more than a few are likely willing
to plunk down some cash to order smart, ready-made additions to
their flat-pack furniture. Which is where Parts of Sweden comes in.
Free, personalized bottle labels
Food & beverage / Marketing & advertising
Rather than offering custom labels as part of a larger product order,
such as Jones Soda does, Pernod Ricard lets customers order
just labels, and at no charge.
Academic credit for McDonald's employees
Education
Job experience can rival formal education for imparting important
skills, and recently the UK officially recognized that fact by allowing
McDonald's to grant academic credits to employees.
Community designs phones, inside and out
Telecom & mobile
Releasing open-source software is fairly common these days, but
Taiwan's OpenMoko broke new ground when it also published the 3D
design files for its mobile device.
Paparazzi for the rest of us
Lifestyle & leisure
Being photographed by the paparazzi was once an (often dubious)
honour bestowed only on the rich and famous, but today a new service
is bringing the possibility to every consumer.
Career sampling service
Life hacks
When choosing a career path, it's one thing to think about a job from
the outside, but quite another to experience it day to day. Figuring Out
offers a combination of career coaching and trial work experience.
Cufflinked gravanity
Fashion & beauty
What's getting the gravanity treatment this time? Cuff links. Created by
Eleven Forty Co., the links are individually modelled on photographs
of a child, loved one, pet... Or, of course, oneself.
Our next issue will arrive in your inbox on 9 April 2008. In the meantime, please
check out our daily posts.
Warm regards,
Liesbeth den Toom
Senior Editor
liesbeth@springwise.com
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