Episode 278: TMBA278: An Episode For Those Who Need a Business Idea
Tropical MBA: Entrepreneurship & Founder Lifestyle
Dan Andrews; Ian Schoen
4.9 • 527 Ratings
🗓️ 22 January 2015
⏱️ 32 minutes
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http://www.tropicalmba.com/businessideas/ Back when Ian and I were working a 9-to-5, we were dreaming up all kinds of ideas to start a business. Over the years, we've discovered what we like to call the Business Idea Paradox; When you need these ideas the most, they are the hardest to come by. Ian and I have decided to donate some of our business ideas that we don't have the time or resources to pursue. We've also reached out to our listeners who have donated some of their own business ideas for this episode and shared their thoughts about what kinds of businesses they would really like to see.
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| 0:00.0 | Helen, we're both in sales. Let me tell you why I suck as a salesman. |
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| 0:28.5 | out tropical MBA.com. |
| 0:35.4 | Boss, man, I don't know if you can warp yourself back to 2006 when we used to hang out and smoke cigarettes in the parking lot of our office in Carlsbad, California. |
| 0:44.8 | Hey, I think my mom listens to this show. |
| 0:47.4 | You've got to be careful about what we talk about. |
| 0:49.5 | All right. |
| 0:50.3 | I'm back there, though. |
| 0:51.5 | You just had so many business ideas. |
| 0:54.0 | And a lot of them were, like, really lofty ideas. Like, you know, the turbo intake filters on Mustangs are really terrible. Like we should create a new. And I was like, all right, well, that's not going to happen. And I would sit there and literally, like, my brain would hurt. I'd like want to start a business so badly. But I couldn't come up with an idea to save my life. You know, all the ideas I came up with were like, well, I guess brooms are like not very good so we can make a broom with a better handle or stuff. I mean, they were terrible ideas. I've come to call this the business idea paradox. It's when you need business ideas the most, you can't seem to come up with them. And when you have a business, |
| 1:28.3 | you seem to have too many other business ideas that are distracting or that you can't get to. |
| 1:32.8 | So that's really what this episode is all about. We are going to donate some business ideas |
| 1:37.9 | that we can't get to, that we think might be good for somebody else. Maybe they'll spark an |
| 1:42.3 | idea, a creative burst in some of our listeners. And also, |
| 1:46.2 | we've reached out to TMBA listeners and asked them to donate the ideas that they'd either |
| 1:50.8 | would love to do themselves but can't get to or ideas that they'd be willing to pay for if somebody |
| 1:55.9 | did. So we're going to back the truck up to the old Goodwill, dump out all these ideas. You know, |
| 2:00.8 | the thing about Goodwill is not a lot of good stuff there. So I'm not sure how this is going to turn the truck up to the old Goodwill, dump out all these ideas. You know, the thing about |
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