parallel thinking.........

Its actually quite common that several people come up with almost the same good idea.

Have you done any patent research to find if you have been beaten to the punch.

Posted By: usacanary on October 8th 2009 at 22:22:51

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Anyone on here build websites? I've spotted an opportunity via work (General Chat) - conker, Oct 8, 21:10:35
- Building a website is pretty easy as......... (General Chat) - usacanary, Oct 8, 21:54:27
  - I want to set up a betting exchange website (General Chat) - Charles21, Oct 8, 22:23:16
    - problem is getting liquidity on the various markets...... (General Chat) - usacanary, Oct 8, 22:26:14
      - ok, but talking about the actual site (General Chat) - Charles21, Oct 8, 22:32:39
        
        fairly because of security. programming and customer service. (General Chat) - usacanary, Oct 8, 22:38:51
        
        ah bugger, so ?1k wouldn't be enough? (General Chat) - Charles21, Oct 8, 22:42:49
        
        My company doesnt work with gambling sites, so its not thaIm looking to explore (n/m) (General Chat) - conker, Oct 8, 22:40:36
  - Send them my way for affiliate marketing :) (n/m) (General Chat) - conker, Oct 8, 21:59:18
- i've spotted an opportunity! (General Chat) - Tomblander, Oct 8, 21:42:23
  - what is it? (n/m) (General Chat) - Small, Oct 8, 21:56:55
    - it's a lifesaver (General Chat) - Tomblander, Oct 8, 22:08:40
      - Dragons Den time (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Oct 8, 22:09:17
        
        Dragons Den is horrific for genuinely good ideas. (General Chat) - usacanary, Oct 8, 22:12:50
        
        what is this dragon's den thing of which I hear people speak? (n/m) (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Oct 8, 22:12:06
        
        You have to have an exceptional idea to get on it like the bloke... (General Chat) - DrDublin, Oct 8, 22:14:46
        
        yes. surprised that no-one IN THE ENTIRE WORLD hadn't come up with that before (n/m) (General Chat) - Tomblander, Oct 8, 22:17:42
        
        it's not really relevant in this case (General Chat) - Tomblander, Oct 8, 22:13:12
        
        what's your idea? you can tell me because I don't even live in the UK (General Chat) - Worzel Scrimmage, Oct 8, 22:17:28
  - several thousand (General Chat) - CWC, Oct 8, 21:56:34
    - not wholly unreasonable (General Chat) - Tomblander, Oct 8, 22:06:37
      - feck knows (General Chat) - CWC, Oct 8, 22:55:43
      - Google It You Lazy Fuck (n/m) (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Oct 8, 22:19:20
        
        that's a bit like masturbation (General Chat) - Tomblander, Oct 8, 22:22:59
        
        you'll have to give us your idea then (n/m) (General Chat) - Ralf Scrampton, Oct 8, 22:33:43
      - Easy answer.............. (General Chat) - usacanary, Oct 8, 22:08:36
        
        there isn't a demand yet because people don't know they want it (General Chat) - Tomblander, Oct 8, 22:12:05
        
        parallel thinking......... (General Chat) - usacanary, Oct 8, 22:22:51
        
        have you done any market research? (General Chat) - Dave in France, Oct 8, 22:16:41
        
        bollocks to market research Dave (General Chat) - Tomblander, Oct 8, 22:20:24
      - tell me (General Chat) - Dave in France, Oct 8, 22:08:10
        
        I might (General Chat) - Tomblander, Oct 8, 22:10:15
        
        i've got a bottle of rum and some peanut flavour corn puffs (n/m) (General Chat) - Dave in France, Oct 8, 22:14:13
- Pixelman was asking for something the other day (n/m) (General Chat) - pants, Oct 8, 21:16:16
  - That was for Flash. He never got back to me. (n/m) (General Chat) - Arganth, Oct 8, 21:44:34
  - I tried to build one myself before, it was poor and for this to work it really needs (General Chat) - conker, Oct 8, 21:21:18
    - How much of an opportunity? (General Chat) - Ben, Oct 8, 21:39:33
      - A couple of hundred quid? (General Chat) - conker, Oct 8, 21:51:25
        
        If you think there's good money in it then drop me an email with more info (General Chat) - Ben, Oct 8, 22:06:29
        
        Do you know if they work in a specific sector? (n/m) (General Chat) - conker, Oct 8, 22:32:35
        
        Tell us more about the product? (General Chat) - usacanary, Oct 8, 21:57:07
        
        It will be build with a view to promoting a specific finance product (General Chat) - conker, Oct 8, 22:00:46
        
        Sounds incredibly simple........ (General Chat) - usacanary, Oct 8, 22:07:24
        
        I had a brilliantly simple idea on the way home from work this eve....... (General Chat) - DrDublin, Oct 8, 22:12:37
        
        Ironically............. (General Chat) - usacanary, Oct 8, 22:16:06
        
        Unfortunately there is one (n/m) (General Chat) - Small, Oct 8, 22:23:50
        
        There are also numerous pizza franchises.......... (n/m) (General Chat) - usacanary, Oct 8, 22:28:14
        
        because it's really hard to start up a chip shop ithout the support of a franchiser (n/m) (General Chat) - Dave in France, Oct 8, 22:33:08
        
        It's even easier to start up a burger joint without McDonalds (n/m) (General Chat) - usacanary, Oct 8, 22:40:34
        
        Maybe. Maybe there is more room in the market for Fish&Chip Franchises (General Chat) - Small, Oct 8, 22:50:02
        
        They have a few huge fried fish franchises in the US. (General Chat) - usacanary, Oct 8, 22:56:54
        
        Talking of franchises.............. (General Chat) - usacanary, Oct 8, 22:58:28
        
        and now they're popping up over here (General Chat) - Dave in France, Oct 8, 23:07:30
        
        What like Harry Ramsdens's? (General Chat) - Small, Oct 8, 23:22:19
        
        Fish and Chip Thursday is a tradition for me. (n/m) (General Chat) - DrDublin, Oct 8, 22:17:01

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