Albert Einstein once said “If, at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it.” Here is my list of the top ten most absurd and hopeless ideas I have heard about in my lifetime:
1. Coffee shops? The world hardly needs more coffee shops. Plus, coffee shops don’t scale.
2. A Maine-based line of natural products that are made with bees wax? Last time I checked, the “bee” supply chain wasn’t that scalable.
3. Overpriced, finely made historically accurate dolls that will teach children about history? Seriously? I don’t even know where to go with that.
4. An algorithm that will improve upon Yahoo’s web search technology? Fatal flaw: why couldn’t Yahoo just do that themselves?
5. Packages overnight? The infrastructure required to make that happen is prohibitively expensive. Nice idea, but too much capital risk...
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Author: Becca Braun
