Innovation in ideas
There are lots of sites popping up at the moment for people to share ideas for good business ideas (and i am not for them). Take LoveMyIdea and Idea Volcano for example, people can post their brilliant business ideas on here and watch other people steal them!
I know its not the idea, its the execution, and i put a post on LoveMyIdea some time ago now about an idea i had for a digital camera rental business idea (click here for full details).
This was a business idea i obviously wasn’t interested in but still, i have had a few comments and the latest comment is that somebody is launching a business for this very soon!
Now i have seen this website that is taking these idea sites one step further, Fellowforce.com is trying to tap into the business smarts of strangers.
On August 1, the Amsterdam-based startup launched its consumer-facing site where people can sign up as “fellows” and answer challenges posed by companies large and small. There are only about 20 challenges so far. Some have been posted directly to the site itself, like one startup’s plea for a “blockbuster TV-format for a new website“. While others are links to existing crowdsourcing efforts elsewhere on the Web, such as Nokia’s invitation to consumers to help design an N76 phone, or the Motion Pictures Laboratories quest to “develop a theatrical projection screen” that can handle both 2-D and 3-D movies.
So don’t just give away your ideas, ask people to build them, design them and then sell them!