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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    I took a course about entrepreneurship in the knowledge economy.

    One of the pitched ideas was that parents are busy and kids need to have a place to go while the parents are at work. So… a daycare.

    What made it knowledge economy? In their view, a punch clock using a smartphone.

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      11 months ago

      Well, there’s no 24/7 daycare where I am and a few of my pals do shift work. Why can’t there be an overnight daycare???

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        11 months ago

        We have one in my hometown, a lot of people work at local plants and it is open all kinds of weird hours. Never really understood how the whole thing really worked though.

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        When I was a kid my parents occasionally dropped us off in the evening at a place that was a drop in evening day care. I remember it had a really great sort of movie theater and indoor jungle gym.

        I think it was pretty pricey so we didn’t go often, but I i know it was in an area with a lot of restaurants and bars

        No idea what the margins on a business like this is and why it apparently doesn’t work. If it did one should be able to use existing daycate real estate and licensing so the big thing is staffing and customers I’d think