I had a friend who wanted to start a coin counting by mail business. The customer mails the coins in a flat rate package and then you count them and in exchange the people get a gift card to a local restaurant.

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    Tinder type ride share app. You find girls on this app and say “hey we are going to XYZ bar/restaurant it looks like you’re going to the same area” and then you share a cab and it’s like a micro date. Logistically impossible.

    Same guy wanted to set up hidden cameras in people’s businesses with the owner’s cooperation of course and then tell the business owner what they could do better. I realize this is like a consultant but this guy had never owned a business or managed people at all.

    At our local college some guys WON a business competition for an idea for a business where you’d need a kayak or some jars of honey hauled to the next town over so you’d post it in this app. Then someone going to that town would find the item needing moved and you’d agree on a price. On the outset, not all that dumb or odd but when you think about the logistics of meeting up, loading whatever the fuck it was, then meeting the next person at the drop point all at a price that was fair for everyone it’s almost impossible on a mass scale. They got all this seed money and basically closed shop as soon as it ran out because they couldn’t generate revenue. My janitorial company cleaned the building where they were gifted office space and those dudes walked around like their shit didn’t stink everywhere they went. Kind of treated us like shit. Funnily enough our janitor company is still running along fine and they’re dead.

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      some guy wanted to set up hidden cameras in people’s businesses with the owner’s cooperation of course and then tell the business owner what they could do better. I realize this is like a consultant but this guy had never owned a business or managed people at all.

      Sounds like you’ve never heard of the consultant who graduated from one of Canada’s to business schools with really good grades

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      The hidden camera idea - “Bar Rescue” and “Kitchen Nightmares” have these right? So does “Undercover Boss.”

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        You’re correct. I think the offputting part of the idea was that this dude was more likely to give a google review type critique rather than a John Taffer expert input and plan to step their game up.

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      Same guy wanted to set up hidden cameras in people’s businesses with the owner’s cooperation of course and then tell the business owner what they could do better.

      I mean, I could see the idea behind it. Time and motion studies without interrupting the business or needing the consultant to be onsite for a lot of billed hours.

      Just had that wee small problem with legality…

      I’m actually wondering if it might have worked if they’d worked through a security-camera company, selling it as an additional service. Install the security cameras and be upfront about it, then have a business consultant access the footage via a mini-clause in the security contract allowing the security company to farm their record-viewing out to “approved contractors”, or something.

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      The 3rd one sounds identical to Uship which has been around since 03