BUSINESS IDEAS Forum

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• Looking for ideas, trends, opportunities and partners

Why react to the latest trends, when you can help create them? You will need insight that can guide you through the ups and downs of trends, combine with little inspiration that we can deliver.
• View numerous discussions about new opportunities, ideas, inspirations, biz plans in the moderated threaded FORUM, DIRECTORY and BLOG.
• Use advanced search functions, Directory or ideas alerts to enhance your chance to find interesting circumstances and new opportunities on the market.
• Learn about opportunities and ideas that our members already materialized or that our Forum moderators spotted on world markets.
• Learn how others have rated Critical Success Factors for published opportunities.
• Meet the most successful members who accomplished to materialize their opportunities into commercial ends with other members they found in the FORUM.
• Meet potential investors who are looking for venture project financing.
• Study plans and presentations that other members published together with their postings.
• Use optional Credits to contact the authors and read their biz plans and presentations.
• Get useful information and tips for your startup.
• Learn how you should write your own business plan and get same examples sorted by sectors.
• Read featured ideas published in our newsletter.

Find idea or trend in the Forum or Directory		Contact the author, read his plan or presentation and find out if he can become your partner		Brainstorm it with your partner and try to turn it into a real business		Provide feedback about your partner

• Publishing ideas in order to find partners

Do you see opportunities where others don't? Look behind the ideas, opportunities and trends and use your imagination to add real value to them.
• Publish your idea in the Forum with or without detailed business plan or presentation. Offer your contact information free of charge for other members or for a small fee to get only the most serious leads. Use Credits to provide your contact information free of charge or to contact other members.
• Get a list of members who have been interested in your idea.
• Learn how many visitor have viewed your posting and where they come from.
• Get Critical Success Factors rating for your published posting.
• Provide your detailed biz plan or presentation to serious partners. Study first some samples before you start to write your own one.
• Find and network with potential partners and customers who can help you with your startup.
• Get financing for your startup by presenting your idea to potential investors.
• Get insight how to exploit the opportunities on market by linking your idea with ideas and resources of other people.
• Increase your chance to materialize your potential idea or opportunity.
• Develop your or somebody's ideas and visions into commercial ends.

Publish your idea in the Forum with or without business plan or presentation		Wait until somebody contacts you to become your partner		Brainstorm it with your partner and try to turn it into a real business		Provide feedback about your partner

Check list for your new startup:

You need three things to create a successful startup:

• Start with good people.
• Make something customers actually want.
• Spend as little money as possible.

Most startups that fail do it because they fail at one of these. A startup that does all three will probably succeed.

What counts is not how many new opportunities you have but how many you make happen.

• 1st STEP: Every business starts with an IDEA!
  Whether the IDEA is original, borrowed, or bought, the IDEA is the heart of any business through all stages if its life. If there's no idea, there's no business.
  The IDEA is what will keep you fired up, and give you pride. Plus, the IDEA is the most fun part of business. So go with an IDEA you can get excited about.
  We help you to turn your idea into a real biz, regardless whether you or somebody else discovers it.
  Look around having in mind some new idea or opportunity. Are there any similar businesses to the ones you want to create? If not, that should tell you something. Maybe your ideas are so cutting-edge that no one else has thought of them. That may be good later on, once you know how to start and run a new business, but the beginning of your journey isn't a good place to boldly go where no entrepreneur has gone before. Now is not the time to lead; it's the time to learn from others. See our free FORUM to learn how.
• 2nd STEP: Name it
  You will need a fitting name, one people will remember. Don't rely on what your family and friends say about your name ideas. Instead, rely on honest and unbiased feedback.
• 3rd STEP: Plan it
  If you don't know where your business is going, you sure won't get there. So before you invest your time, money and sanity, think through in detail what the business will do, what obstacles you will face, how much money it will take, and what you will make. Mapping out your business plan on paper will help you see the real picture. And a biz plan is a "must have" if you will be courting investors or lenders.
• 4th STEP: Legal Set up
  There are legal and governmental things you've got to know about and deal with. Each country has its own specific requirements.
• 5th STEP: Get money
  Most likely you will not start making money right away. What do you do till the cash starts flowing? And where can you get the upfront money your startup will need?
  Still hesitating?