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maxjohan · 01-03-2007, 10:28 PM

About three years ago i had this crazy idea and saw the potential of videos played with a flash player. I thought it could get really big if i did it right, but i feared that if people shared videos they were going to upload copyrighted content. I decided to not take any action with my plans.

YouTube - $1.65 Billion

That's what happens when you walk around with your morals and a scarcity mind.

Lesson learned i guess?

Spunky · 01-03-2007, 10:29 PM

I invented the Chia pet..those bastards stole my idea

fr0gman · 01-03-2007, 10:33 PM

About three years ago I had this crazy idea of using vending machines to rent DVD's ... I figured that a guy could put them in supermarkets and rent moveis for like 5.00... sure glad nobody has taken that idea... oh wait... they have.

BusterBunny · 01-03-2007, 10:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spunky

I invented the Chia pet..those bastards stole my idea

shoulda never went to that podiatrist and stuck with the tinactin

After Shock Media · 01-03-2007, 10:35 PM

When I was a teen I had this crazy idea about using vending machines to count change and give you paper currency for a cut.

Oh well.

GAMEFINEST · 01-03-2007, 10:37 PM

theres always new things to create

maxjohan · 01-03-2007, 10:39 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spunky

I invented the Chia pet..those bastards stole my idea

Sorry to hear that, it's an simple idea, if you just had taken action you had been the Chia King now!

Better luck next time i guess... but damn it hurts doesn't it?

I got my idea from the videosz vids they have in flash....
should have known better!

johanng · 01-03-2007, 10:39 PM

try to have other ideas...

tabasco · 01-03-2007, 10:43 PM

Yeah but would you have had the financial backing to get that up and off the ground? They would have chewed through massive piles of cash before they sold it. From what I hear those guys had lots of good backers from their time working with Paypal.

maxjohan · 01-03-2007, 10:46 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GAMEFINEST

theres always new things to create

True that, I'm not going to drown myself over one lost battle.

Even if you fail a few times: "They Can't Eat You!"

maxjohan · 01-03-2007, 10:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tabasco

Yeah but would you have had the financial backing to get that up and off the ground? They would have chewed through massive piles of cash before they sold it. From what I hear those guys had lots of good backers from their time working with Paypal.

Hard to say if i had made it as big as YouTube, the true answer is probably not at all.

Yeah, they had lots of back up.

One that put in over $10 million in YouTube.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sequoia_Capital

Around 10% of NASDAQ is made up by firms
funded by Sequoia Capital

SPACE GLIDER · 01-03-2007, 10:55 PM

oh that sucks

CaptainHowdy · 01-03-2007, 10:59 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spunky

I invented the Chia pet..those bastards stole my idea

!!

dougeetx · 01-03-2007, 11:20 PM

When I was a kid, I loooooved cartoons (still do). I thought, "what if there was a channel playing cartoons all day everyday?"

Cartoon Network!

Bloody bastids!

reynold · 01-04-2007, 03:20 AM

If it's not for you, then it will never be yours..

madawgz · 01-04-2007, 03:22 AM

well you should have done it, deal with copyrighted material later ;)

borked · 01-04-2007, 03:34 AM

when I was 15 or so, for a physics project, I wrote about an idea to put sensors on car bumbers that would help in parking. Also on that theme were infrared sensors that would check on the distance between your and the vehicle in front and adjust the distance to a safe distance.

No shit - but I got top marks

--edit
still have it in my schoolbooks... should count for first idea I reckon

ViliTheKid · 01-04-2007, 04:35 AM

you have a point there!
that is one more experience for you

Vitasoy · 01-04-2007, 04:43 AM

You'd need some mega funding.

4Man · 01-04-2007, 07:08 AM

Just move on

ToplistBlog_Com · 01-04-2007, 07:56 AM

Just moved on to other area.....

NoComments · 01-04-2007, 08:07 AM

I had a crazy idea too.
Pay webmasters per raw click, shave just a notch below than everybody else was shaving,
buy from many, sell to few....and got out before Google moved in with the exact same concept.

I pulled it off. Never be afraid of crazy ideas,
implementing them much easier than to conceive them.

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