Beautiful Blue Sky

So, in reality we are all searching for the thing that is going to make us the MOST happy.  Something that will keep our interest.  Something to keep us working hard, honest and feeling rewarded at the end of the day.

Y combinator had a great post HERE about ideas that they would like to fund. I find posts like this interesting, but not for the fact that you might find some blueprint for a business, but just something that will spurn ideas about a particular niche. It makes brainstorming incredibly easy. Send a link to some friends, stir up the pot about your thoughts, and then start conversing about viability of your combined ideas.

That’s what I spent part of my Monday morning doing, expanding on one of those points. I at least have one idea that I think is valid and viable: A niche auction web presence.

The market is huge and there is just so much that is being done wrong. It operates on pure volume in the eBay world domination model. In general I think you could to try to exploit the market of valuables and goods that need to be verified (Think jewelry, antiques, purses, etc) by a third party for authentication. A couple of things make me think there’s a space for this. First,it’s a totally fragmented marketplace made up of small brick and mortar businesses selling higher priced goods and buyers skittish about whether those goods are authentic. Second, there is also a nice healthy trend of eBay selling counterfeit items. Both of these point towards opportunity.

Execution and figuring out the details are of course the hard part, BUT its also super interesting.

You might find my thoughts interesting, or maybe not. It’s irrelevant to the central point. Staying on the sidelines won’t get you anywhere.

Start blue sky’ing your ideas on something you want to do. There are so many things that need to be improved it’s just silly.