Want an Idea?

How about a free idea?

In the business world you are always trying to monetize what you are good at so what if all you are good at is coming up with ideas? Wacky ideas, tech ideas, dangerous ideas, funny epic ideas, or even dramatic serious ideas! I involuntarily come up with many ideas during the week but never have the time to see them through! Even more woeful is starting a new project but never finishing it…

So perhaps a website dedicated to giving out free ideas? It’s first come, first serve for whoever wants to take the idea and turn it into a reality. I can already imagine three separate people all trying to turn the idea into a reality at the same time and seeing who can be first. Of course I would also then be displaying the winner and all the other attempts too on the front page.

This sort of reminds me of the Idea Shower, a portfolio of all of Nate Weiner’s awesome ideas, some public and some private. But those are all his ideas while this site would be ideas for the public.

On the other hand, as an entrepreneur this can be the dumbest thing in the world to do. The idea is perhaps the single most valuable part of a startup other than the team and I’m just giving out ideas for free?

Any suggestions to monetize this free idea idea?

~Kevin Xu

*Photo courtesy of bartendermagic_com

Update: Interesting to note that www.freeideas.com is already taken and looks pretty unique. But its still in the development stages as its full of the “Lorem Ipsum Dolor” crap. Registered by a Carl Free so I assume the domain is a play on his last name “Free” rather than the concept of “free”.