Business Ideas? Where Do I Find Them?

Venturing out and starting your own business always stems from a first step, this being having a brilliant business idea or plan which you think you can do successfully. But where do you get brilliant business ideas? They don’t just fall from the sky you know.

Let’s discuss.

1) From your frustrations

Who hasn’t been frustrated with one thing or another at any time in their lives? I have and I’m sure you have. What frustrates me? Well for example, those stupid motorcyclists aka Mat Rempits who drive against traffic and break every rule imaginable.

So my brilliant business idea for the benefit of the whole of Malaysia is to have a device installed in your car. This device will be activated by the press of the cliche ‘big red button’ and from the roof of your car, a NUCLEAR POWERED LASER BEAM will emerge and DESTROY HIM!

Something like this would be good.

I think it’s pretty much Malaysian culture that whatever part of the country you travel to, Mat Rempits will always be breaking the rules with their stupid motorbikes. I don’t think there are enough nuclear powered canons out there to get rid of all of them. But you can always dream right?

Ever wanted to know more about food but didn’t know where to go? Then start a food blog like masak-masak or Two super heroes among others.

Ever wanted to know how to resign from your job but didn’t know how? Then start a resigning from your job consultation company. Who knows? It might work.

Well you get the idea, build plans/ ideas from your frustrations.

2) Do something to save the world

And no, I’m not talking about becoming some sort of vigilante and running around the city dressed as Batman and beating up all the criminals…

Damn… I need to fart. Maybe making this suit out of rubber wasn’t such a good idea after all.

What I meant was starting some sort of business where you can contribute back to society, such as WWF (Saving all the wrestlers I mean animals in the world), Youth Malaysia (encouraging entrepreneurship) Charity Malaysia (Multiple Categories) and Good Company (Provide the services of skilled professionals to charities who may otherwise not have been able to afford these services).

Now of course you are not going to get rich doing any of these, but you will have a salary paid to you from the funds raised by your charity. But on the brighter side, you can say that you are playing a part in changing a life. What more than that could you ask for?

Just a warning, don’t go all Green Peace on me and start tying yourself to fishing boats or trees just because I suggested you could change the world. I mean it.

3) From Your Brilliant Mind, Because You Are A Genius

When you’re a super genius sometimes things just come easier to you. Take Thomas Edison for example, this guy created the telephone and the electric light bulb. He also was the owner of like 1300 patents and he formed what is now know as General Electric.

Are you as smart as Thomas Edison?

I’m smarter than you. But I can’t look straight at a camera.

Well then you’re set for life… so stop reading my blog and go create a new Google, Youtube or Facebook!

4) By Being A Social Outcast/ Unpopular/ Oppressed early in life

Now it might be a bit controversial saying this but I really do believe that those who come up with the best business ideas sometimes were bullied or oppressed sometime during their lives. This made them work harder than the ‘smarter’ people around them just to PROVE they could do it.

• Bill gates? Was told that DOS would never succeed and that there’d be no use for it. So he bought it, put windows on it and the rest is history.

• Eminem? Was told that his rap style would never succeed in the industry. Well he’s rapping all the way to the bank.

• YOU? Were you bullied at school? Did people around you always tell you that you’d become a nobody in your lifetime? Do you hate your job, and your boss keeps pushing you past your limits?

• Well use all that pent up energy but don’t convert it into anger, instead, convert it into determination, so that when all your hard work pays off, you can go back to that person and tell them to kiss your ass.

So where did I find MY brilliant business idea?

From all the above of course.

It all happened when I was running around KL city and was frustrated with what I was wearing. It the dawned on me that I should come up with a business where I could deal with this frustration and raise funds for other people with the same frustration as me.

I then ran past a mirror and realized that I was the smartest person in the world. I was then attacked by some random people on the side of the road who told me that whatever I was thinking would never work in my lifetime.

And what did I come up with?

To sell used underwear of course.