Here’s my latest half-baked idea (which I’m sure others are already doing): investing in real estate inside Second Life. Second Life is an incredibly popular virtual world – US $500,000 is spent every day inside the world.
Anyway, the hot neighborhoods are scarce, so the time to invest is now.
Course, I don’t know where to invest, so I posted this question:
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/?qid=20061017080735AAmMSVb
Recently, I’ve encounted a new name for fast food restaurants: “Quick Serve.” Like this:
http://www.bison.com/featured/category/foodfast.html
As in, “don’t blame the food for being fast (hence not fresh); focus on the upside — quick service!” Long-time reader Ken will appreciate this.
I also noticed that Dairy Queen is now DQ, but that’s presumably so they can push their “tasty” dinners, expanding beyond their dairy royalty.
The owners of Top Gun have outdone themselves with a clean version of itself: O’Asian.
Top Gun was the best dim sum in Seattle, but now you get the same great dim sum, plus:
This is a good summary of “myths that smart people have about starting their own businesses.”
Agree with most of his boldface points:
http://rondam.blogspot.com/2006/10/top-ten-geek-business-myths.html
You have to ignore & not be offended by his color commentary. 🙂
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