Don't just seek external advice and recommendations; put together a team of employees, and see what
ideas they come up with for innovating your brand and offerings.
Here are some of
the ideas I came up with for a great gender neutral baby gift!
Fruit Bats — This is
an idea I came up with for my daughter's Halloween party at school.
Below is a question I just received recently from a customer and
some ideas I came up with for him.
It's always fun to see what creative
ideas you all come up with for your gift - giving throughout the year!
Steer children back to the point if necessary, but leave evaluation of
the ideas they come up with for later.
Not exact matches
If you're an
ideas person like me, you likely
come up with great
ideas for businesses on the fly.
If you end
up making a change or update based on your customer's feedback, give them credit
for coming up with the
idea.
You see, Spiegel and Murphy were just college students in 2011 when they
came up with the
idea for Snap, the company formerly known as Snapchat.
If you mandate that each employee
come up with two new
ideas for a specific purpose, you'll definitely get plenty of
ideas.
Developing story
ideas for your blog is a lot like
coming up with a business
idea: You're bound to
come up with a handful of duds that have a few gems sprinkled between.
You might have a vision
for the outcome of your project, but they could
come up with a brilliant, improved
idea — and you'll never know about it if you suffocate them
with your
idea right from the get go.
In early October, the city held TrafficJam, a hackathon that invited entrepreneurs to
come up with ideas for beating gridlock.
I was totally wrong
for an operations position; I'd always be
coming up with new
ideas, driving everyone else crazy in the process.
The company
came up with the
idea after surveying 814 North American professionals, who largely said they didn't find their company's intranet helpful
for this, and wished they could look
for coworkers based on specific skills.
Activision has followed the pattern it established
with Call of Duty by enlisting a second developer, Vicarious Visions, to create games like Skylanders: Swap Force in tandem
with Toys
For Bob, which
came up with the
idea and is behind Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure, Skylanders: Giants and the new Skylanders: Trap Team game.
Since Estonia had little means
for attracting masses of immigrants to its icy Northern European landscape, it
came up with a quirky
idea — another of its firsts in the world: offering people virtual residency.
If we can give customers the feeling of giving back, we can extend into Toms Hotels or Toms Banking or other
ideas we haven't
come up with yet, because the One
for One model can be relevant to many things consumers do.
Entrepreneur: How did you
come up with the
idea for Stray Boots?
From the time you
come up with new topic
ideas to the final publication of content to your site, the higher your quality, the better it will be
for your campaign.
Let's say you just
came up with an
idea that could become a household commodity: a radical new design
for a commode.
How did you
come up with the
idea for it?
The story: Ganahl and her husband, Bion Flammang,
came up with the
idea to start a doggie - daycare company together after struggling to find care
for their own dogs when they traveled.
Max Winograd and two of his Brown University classmates, Ben Lux and Mike Woods,
came up with the
idea to start NuLabel while working on a capstone project
for an entrepreneurship class.
«As a Web developer, I could
come up with all kinds of
ideas for stuff Bill could do
with his site,» Pud told us.
«We talk
with clients about the three pillars and encourage them to
come up with great
ideas for each one,» adds Oyler.
When I
came up with the
idea for my first book, 101 Ways to Market Your Business, I spoke to a number of people in marketing about it.
The employees were in Spain as part of a program called GHouse, in which the company rents an apartment in a foreign city and sends groups of six staffers there
for two - week spells to
come up with innovative
ideas.
The skin care mogul offers insight on how she
comes up with new
ideas for her company.
De Baene, a prodigious traveller,
came up with the
idea for GHouse while working from New Zealand.
He
came up with a backstory
for his potential «Mensch on a Bench»
idea, envisioning him as a kindly man who volunteered to watch over the oil in the temple
for the eight days
for the Maccabees.
Some may call it brainstorming, but many professionals say they're going in
for a deep dive when they need to
come up with ideas.
This modern method is often the best — and most inexpensive — way to
come up with new
ideas, generate content and supplement labor
for your business.
This blog is always
coming up with new
ideas for high income folks who want to make the most of their hard - earned dollars while staying in compliance
with the law.
And could you
come up with a new
idea for a product or service that would put you and your company on the map?
Realizing the potential catalyst Malala's story could be
for the movement to educate girls, Malala's family and Shahid
came up with the
idea to establish a fund.
I also
came up with the
idea for Snot, which was a plastic nose filled
with liquid.
A former frat brother of Spiegel's, Frank «Reggie» Brown IV, is suing Snapchat claiming he was an ousted co-founder who actually
came up with the
idea for an app that can send self - deleting photo messages.
He also
came up with an
idea for a business.
We need to be using this time to
come up with the big new
ideas to develop a bolder progressive vision
for the future — and then work to create the conditions necessary to implement that vision.»
While watching catamarans glide
up and down the waterways near Camp Lejeune, he
came up with an
idea for building crafts
with ferroconcrete, which he hoped would make them quicker and cheaper.
Make it a habit to do
idea exercises —
come up with three possible outcomes
for your next
idea, even if there's only one way you expect it to turn out.
Founder Nick Woodman
came up with the
idea for GoPro during a five - month surfing trip to Indonesia and Australia, where he found himself «frustrated that pro surfers tended to be the only ones who could get good images of themselves surfing — because you needed a professional photographer or videographer willing to bob around in the water documenting you.»
When that led to a public outcry and draft bills in Congress, they
came up with the
idea charging websites
for a fast lane to ISP subscribers.
It's often when I
comes up with some of my best
ideas for the private air service company that I founded
with my wife following retirement from a career as a civil engineer.»
In the not - so - distant past, if a person
came up with a concept
for a new product and wanted to try to monetize their
idea, the only options available were to either start a company to produce and sell the product or to secure intellectual property rights and attempt to license the
idea to an already - established company.
Are «ordinary» people capable of
coming up with ideas for products and services that will change the world?
About two months ago, I wrote about about Seth Quest, an ordinary guy — a designer — who
came up with an
idea for a funky iPad stand called the Hanfree.
We
come up with ideas we think are «good
for» the consumer or that they «should» want, without taking into consideration what they actually already want, expect, and do on a daily basis.
Here's a novel
idea for how to
come up with a start -
up idea.