By meaning 2.0 I am not talking about long-lasting review of all the web 2.0 features as Wikipedia, Digg and other boring well-known stuff. Some people are smart and every day they come up with a new idea how to fill their pocket with coins or how to make fun out of the internet community.
Number one: Trading. Kyle MacDonald had one red paperclip on July 12th year 2005 - he came out with the idea to trade this red paperclip for other stuff. By July of 2006 he had a huge bad-ass house! Sounds insane - but it is true (no one would trade a house for a red paperclip of course, there were lots of different trading things before the house). If you are interested in reading about each trade and the whole story - follow here.
Number two: Onemilliondollar idea. One smart-ass student decided to create an ‘internet history’ by selling each pixel on his homepage for $1. As you could have already guessed, he created 1,000,000 pixels. If you had came with the idea, I would have never made a thing out of it - who would by a damn pixel for $1? Not me, definitely. But thousands of others thought differently - the student is a millionaire. The main motivation of his is paying his studying expenses. By now there are dozens websites with exactly the same idea - clones. Not as popular - but still making huge amount of money out of this.
According to Warren Buffet’s theory there are three types of enterpreneurship steams:
- Idea creators
- Imitators
- Idiots
First ones make something up, advertise it and sell it. Imitators see the idea, create a clone, advertise it, sell it and still making money out of it. Idiots see the idea, invest into it, advertise it and can’t sell it, so they are only ones who lose money.
Propositions is to be the first ones and not the last from the list :)
