Here’s a novel business idea: farming. Turn your extra room or that spare tool-shed or warehouse out back into a clean, organic, soil-less, cash growing machine. Science-y indoor “aeroponic” farming can make massive amounts of high-margin crops very quickly and with no insects—once you can get the bugs out, of course.
Overview
Many people have [...]

Lowdown
Founding Members: 2
Scale: Small-medium
Capital: ~$5,000
Hustle: Low
Break-even: 3 Months
Cash-flow positive: 1 Months
Risk: Medium
Ceiling: $5-10M
Geographics: Presence not required depending on niche
Business idea: High-tech services available the moment you log on.
Overview
How many times have you been thinking about an idea, only to be quickly stalled by a thought like “ugh, I’d have to find a [designer, coder, [...]

Founding Members: 1 Scale: Medium Capital: $200,000 Hustle: Medium Break-even: 1 Year Cash-flow positive: 2 Months Risk: High Typical Profit: $5,000-20,000 per month Geographics: Zero. Build it and then move somewhere else.

Put on your cowboy boots and grab a couple of six-shooters because you’re going to be hoppin’ and shootin’ when the Texas [...]

Introduction
You don’t have to have a merchant account, deal with any billing whatsoever, support requirements are very limited, providing high service availability is not a necessity, and there is an extremely spendy built-in customer base that is easily marketed to. The guy who developed the relatively simple Labyrinth (Carl Loodberg) game is estimated [...]

Lowdown
Founding Members: 3
Scale: Large
Capital: ~$20,000
Hustle: Lots
Break-even: 4 Months
Cash-flow positive: 3 Months
Risk: Low-medium
Ceiling: Unlimited
Geographics: High-touch; Office and on-sites required regularly
Overview
As I discussed in Cashing in on iPhone with Apple’s AppStore, the market potential for new iPhone software development is simply massive and will continue to be. I’ll leave the market research for the AppStore market [...]