Come up with a crazy business idea.
I think my idea of creating a new theatre group is crazy enough, so I’m hard-pressed at the moment to come up with something else that’s crazy or crazier. But I wanted to springboard off today’s prompt and talk about someone else’s crazy business idea.
My fiancée’s ex-husband, Igor, was from Russia. His goal, when he arrived in the United States, was to create a lasting and successful business. He tried several ventures, but none of them stuck. (And if anyone would like to buy an etching machine that engraves glass, marble, and other stones with the perfect likeness of a source graphic, let me know; we have one imported from Russia.)
Anyway, one of the ideas he had back in the 1990s was to connect with a restaurant or restaurants, and be available to them to do deliveries. People would call in, place an order, and then he would deliver that order to a home or business.
Of course, no one, other than pizza places, had ever heard of such a thing. Also, you would need a reliable GPS system to navigate a town, but even TomTom hadn’t really taken off yet in those days before widespread cell phone usage. Finally, his command of English, even when I knew him decades later, was not stellar, and so he was hampered by his communication skills (or lack thereof).
Of course, DoorDash, UberEats, and other competitors would come along in the 21st Century, but widespread technology use was too much in its infancy for his idea to work back then.
So one of the morals of this story is: ideas aren’t always crazy, they might just be ahead of their time.
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