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August 14, 2008

A couple of business ideas

I went on a bike ride with a friend yesterday and as we talked we talked about our two new business ideas we had.

First is his idea which I share with his permission.
You know head shops, the places that sell marijuana paraphernalia, silly t-shirts, and black light posters? His idea was for a head shop that took trade-ins on pieces. He had recently found a very expensive bong in the trash that he didn't care for. He thought, wouldn't it be great if he he could clean it really well and trade it in for something he liked at a store. He mentioned other stories of people finding pieces they didn't like or simply growing tired of the ones they had. The deal would be that you would clean your piece, show id (like a pawn shop) to reflect where the piece came from, and then you'd get store credit towards buying something else. A functioning two-way market could encourage non-illegal uses for the glass-art like collection and illegal users could avoid wasting a hundred dollars or more on pieces that they later decided they didn't like. Of if a bum roommate left nothing behind but a water pipe you could at least get a couple of Grateful Dead t-shirts out of it.

My idea was for a hair thickening shampoo with sunblock built in. Many balding men have to carefully put sunblock on their heads after they shower in the morning to protect their scalps from the sun. This product would be marketed as an all-in-one scalp and hair treatment to simplify morning preparations. Simply apply it to your scalp and as the foam washes and thickens your hair it also protects your scalp. The soap washes away but the sunblock doesn't. If chemically that isn't possible then you could combine a scalp treatment, sunblock and hair styling gel for those with thinning but not entirely absent hair.

Posted by OneEyedMan at August 14, 2008 7:52 AM

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