ENTREPRENEURING

 

We all have had ideas for new products that we didn’t act on, because the development and patenting of the project seemed too complicated and too much trouble.  

 Back in the early 1960’s I was working in the woods in Maine.  I carried some moose droppings home with me; I took two of the marble-sized globes, dunked them in acrylic, and mounted them on ear earring posts.   I called them moose pearls, and as a joke, gave a set to my wife.

A few years later, I left Maine for seven years.  When I returned, my wife and I went to L.L. Bean’s.  In the sports section, there were moose poop earrings for sale.  Now, moose poop jewelry is everywhere. 

 

I have another shitty idea.  I am too old to pursue it, so I will throw it out there for some enterprising young person to develop.

I just bought a Garmin GPS for my car.  The unit gives real-time verbal and visual directions to any address in Canada, the U.S., and Mexico.

The Garmin GPS female avatar might say, ‘In one half mile, turn right on Willow Street’. 

 

My idea is a Rude GPS:

When you turn it on, a voice like Larry David might say: ‘All right shit-for-brains, let’s see if we can get you from point A to point B; or, ‘Slowdown asshole, the speed limit is seventy; or, Get your head out of your ass and quit playing with yourself numbnuts, your ramp exit is next’; or, “You fucking idiot, you missed your turn – turn around and try again’…

You get the idea.  

Young men and men in midlife crisis would love this.  They would fly off the shelves.

You are welcome

the Ol’Buzzard