Insert ads on airplane Directv

They know the start/end of the flight, the seating class, and the frequent flier demographics for that seat occupant.  They also know which show is being watched.

Insert ads into the TV stream for Directv on Jetblue and other airlines.

Sell ads before the flight leaves.  If the ads were shown to that seat, bill the ad purchaser.

Dish Autohop to insert ads

Dish TV has Autohop service to skip commercials.

Allow for free or cheaper Dish service with inserted commercials that are sold by Dish.  By knowing physical location and household demographics and type of show, they can sell ads almost as specifically targeted as Google Adwords.

App - Business Card Scanner + Address Book

Functionality:

• Scan cards
•  Import new scan of card
• Crop scan picture
• OCR text (via web service)
• If person handed the card to you, also get pic of person.
• Share contact with friend via email/sms
• Social network & webmail (linkedin, salesforce, gmail, ymail, flat file, xcel, cloud storage, skype, phone address book, etc)
• Upon scan, send short email/sms to that person to confirm good scan
• Tag cards with words (coworker, friend) (like folders, but use tags instead of visual folders)
• Add custom data fields & notes
• Search all data fields
• For fun, bump against world map with time or GPS
• Backup in cloud and allow management via web browser and app

Daily email of new contacts.
Daily email of "to follow up".
Weekly summary of new contacts.
Weekly aging of contacts to provide notice of bday, etc.


Competition:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.scanbizcards
Free/$6.99
"We use the Tesseract OCR engine (version 3.01). Tesseract is an open source optical character recognition engine."


Long term, paper business cards are dead.  Move idea forward to allow for a virtual business card that provides all contact info and QR:

• traditional printed business card
• display on handset (when out of cards)
• SMS to recipient (with optional note)
• bluetooth to recipient (with optional note)

Premium-priced users get free online business card.  Eventually expand that to allow for multiple levels of privacy for each data field.

contactCard.com

username.contactCard.com
or
contactCard.com/username

_____________________________________

plaxo.com
Import contacts from tools and services. Organize into groups. Merge duplicates.
Create your contact card, update it, and then share it with the people who matter to you most.
Sync mobile devices
_____________________________________

For add-on physical sales, partner with moo.com to print business cards.

Enable Mileage Point Gifting

Website to enable fulfillment and tracking for tax purposes.

Article on gifting appreciated assets:

Consumers who opened a new credit-card or checking account this year also may find a tax benefit to donating any reward points or miles they received as a sign-on bonus—some banks now report them to the Internal Revenue Service as taxable income.

App & Website For Speed Reading

Make a website service that takes a stream of text and outputs it at desired words per minute.  Plug-in to allow speed reading a website, and phone app to do the same.

http://www.7speedreading.com

http://www.eyercize.com

Email Encryption Plug-In

Plug-in primarily for popular online email programs to encrypt the text.  At top (or bottom) of message, a link to a message from the person about how to get the decryption key.

Host everything offshore.

SaaS - Grant Management

How hard can this be??? Surely very difficult to confirm matching of all requirements.  Beyond that, it is an exercise in multiple users and version control and reporting.

http://www.seabrooks.com/content/solutions/ecfund.aspx
"e-CImpact pricing consists of an initial one-time setup fee and a monthly subscription. e-CImpact’s subscription fee is scalable, based on usage of the system"

"web application that is currently utilized by over 25,000 end-users across more than 7,500 charitable agencies."

Bluetooth Leash (Cheaper)

These leashes should be selling for half the price.  Make these cheaper.


http://allthingsd.com/20100413/a-leash-on-mobile-devices-that-wander

$80 ZOMM (zomm.com)
"small ZOMM device attached to your keychain would vibrate, light up and beep to let you know you walked more than 30 feet away from your phone."

"ZOMM also doubles as a speakerphone, so that when the phone rings, you can answer it using the ZOMM on your keychain rather than digging through your bag to find the phone."

"holding down the device’s center button for a long time, which set off the a loud panic alarm."

"rechargeable battery lasts over three days on standby and over two hours of straight talk time."

$60 Phone Halo (phonehalo.com)
"Phone Halo lacks a speakerphone."

"Phone Halo software allow for a phone to be locked as soon as it’s out of range, and will record the GPS coordinates of the lost item from the place it was last connected to Phone Halo."

"rechargeable battery is estimated to last about one week"

Servicer for Prize-Linked Savings Programs

In 2010, Rhode Island and Maine reportedly passed legislation to allow PLS programs.

Nebraska and Michigan are featured  on http://www.savetowin.org.

Become the central bank-end processor for the program in a state, so credit unions can outsource the PLS work.

Set up company so it can be sold to a big processor.

Track Miles to Airline Status Levels

Website that logs on to a person's airline frequent flier account every day and looks where they are with miles this year toward the various status levels.

Report how many miles/segments to next level of status.
Report to include upcoming ticketed flights.  If person has status (or will have status by that date) and this provides a benefits (such as minimum 500 miles per leg), round up the leg to 500 miles.

Website allows person to enter their home airport and destination fun-mileage-run airports.  Occasionally send low fares on those routes.  Also find lowest fares for short mileage run from their home airport.

Scents In Air

Put scents in air.  Some hotels have spiffers in elevators, like those sometimes placed in restrooms.

Instead of chemicals, use aromatherapy with essential oils.

Glamper Bling

Restoring old Air Streams was popular ten years ago.  Women have taken to restoring any type of older camper trailer.  Women call the trailers Glampers (glamour trailer).

Sell accessories like ear rings, purse, Christmas ornament, dog collar.

From http://www.thepaisleymoon.com:

Root Viewer Garden for Children

Make this along with a small PV panel that drives LEDs with plant-specific wavelengths. LEDs only on when sun shining on PV panel. Toysmith Garden Root Viewer $9.49 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping at Amazon. Or skip the LEDs and add monitoring powered by PV or plug-in: Soil water content. Light received by plant.

Website to show PC info

SupportDetails . com displays:
browser name
browser version
user agent
operating system
IP Address

Cheap to host.  I wonder how many page views they get each month.  Alexa says < 100,000.

School Lockdown Documentation

Schools have lock down plans which they practice.

Lock the doors, turn out lights, draw window shades, sit quietly in corner that is not visible.
Plan includes school diagram with rooms, doors, windows.

Do this online and offer to school districts.

SaaS - Email List Manager

www.phplist.com is charging money for an email list manager.  I thought this became free years ago.

Smart Pen Paper

The smart pen records audio and note taking.  It uses special "dot" writing paper.  Is it possible and not a patent problem to create our own compatible paper?

Retail price for 100 lined sheets is $24.95.

SaaS - DNS

Provide idiot DNS responders (software or software + hardware) to be placed physically in the customer network.
Management would be done through the web with everything maintained & backed up on the web.  Web would push updates (or be polled) to idiot clients.  Web would receive stats for reporting that would be done on the web.

Also do IP address management.

Resell optional integration of openDNS web filtering.

Selling points would be like SaaS email offerings:
"eliminate the headaches"
"no longer worry about upgrades, backups, recoveries"
"free management reporting on the web"


Sell to consumer the benefit of automatic blacklist management.

HOA Organizer

HOA laws are in some states are becoming tighter.  Need to be able to give members access to documents, to have record of board conversations and voting, etc.

For small HOAs, provide online service to do it all.
account management
bill pay
board of director email account and archive of emails

Medicare Billing

Health care providers are often reimbursed by Medicare.  They submit documentation with the billing.

There are 3rd-parties which do the Medicare submission and take 6%-8% of the billing.  The patient reporting software forces the practitioner to complete the information.  

App - Development & Testing Services

http://www.apkudo.com/app-analytics
We have every Android device ever released. You give us your app and we install, execute, and exercise it on all of those devices, giving you back a detailed report and streaming video that tells you how it runs.

https://reconapi.com
Recon API aims to provide a simple implementation of a user feedback platform

http://www.apphance.com
Record all crashes with full stacktraces 
Automatically gather crucial data about the device's state 
Real time OTA reporting of issues and crashes

http://www.appthwack.com
runs your app on real phones and tablets, hits it with an ever-expanding set of tests, and gathers statistics.
View screen-shots, high-level results, logs, stack-traces, and trends
Device inventory: 77 phones | 10 tablets
Allows 10 free runs per month.

http://applover.me
community focused product that gives you access to 100′s of different Android phones and real beta testers.
You will have to invite some your own testers that are either currently testing your product so that they can test it through Applover.

http://testdroid.com/products
Cloud testing on 100+ android devices.  $1/run

Bitcoin Laundry Service

Swap the digital currency IDs from a laundry/mixing basket to assure anonymity.  Charge a commission for the service.

http://thedailyattack.com/2011/06/16/maintaining-anonymity-while-using-bitcoins/

bitlaundry.com charges: 5.00% of the total you send, plus BTC 0.02 per outgoing transaction

Blog Backup . com

Automated service to back up blogging websites.

Options to store in formats:

• native (requires their logon credentials)
• HTML
• plain text

Free will require logon and press button to start it now.
Paid will allow scheduled backups, more backup space and option to mail a CD/DVD.

App - Cop Spotter

Could be used for any group of similar cars.  Person takes picture of police car with GPS coordinates, hashtag "cop" and possibly identify the type of cop.  Upload to website.

Website would put GPS and tags into twitter, along with updating map win pins.

Incubators for 2nd/3rd World Environments

$40,000 in first world country.  How to make cheap and repairable for other regions of world?

App - Tasker

Could be cloned with a subset of features.  Consider adding email parsing support "Tasker, but unless there's a mail parser plugin I haven't come across (or unless you write one), it won't take actions based on the content of e-mail messages. It will, however, react to SMS message content."


Tasker
Total Automation for Android
http://tasker.dinglisch.net

$6.49
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.dinglisch.android.taskerm

TV Ad Skipping

Dish TV's Auto Hop service to skip commercials on shows that are a day old.  Content providers are suing Dish TV.

How could this be done as a stand-alone service?
+ coding by humans with computer help
+ tag commercials within the show based on time/audio/DBS/video frame

How to fast-forward?
+ Application in smart TV to press fast forward button.
+ Separate device to send fast forward IR code on remote.
+ Smart phone app.

Instead of hiring people to watch TV, could the tagging be crowd sourced?  Then rate the tagger.  Give prizes or pay to top taggers.

Sun Tube For Buildings

Solatube is well-known in the segment of reflecting light through tubes into a house. Commercial sizes are 10" - 21". Residential sizes are 10" - 14", with customization of lenses.

Can a big collector on roof feed a small tube with a large lens?

To increase collected light and possibly decrease tube size:
1) put 4 or 6 or 8 sides of glass in the collector that are transparent. Each section of glass can be energized to become reflective. The reflectivity will bounce the sun that would have gone through the dome into the tube.
2) like the spinning reflectors that move on their own, create similar reflectors that align on their own to reflect the sun.

Become a CMRA (Commercial Mail Receiving Agency)

Commercial Mail Receiving Agency

http://faq.usps.com/eCustomer/iq/usps/request.do?create=kb:USPSFAQ&view()=c%5Bc_usps0729%5D&varset(source)=sourceType:embedded

Could be useful in places with very heavy Mailboxes Etc usage.  Somehow partner with the Mailboxes Etc store to deliver the mail tagged for physical delivery.

App - Medicine Tracker

Application to track dose, interval, refill warning, "take it now" alarm.

Optional interaction report via web search

Proxy Service for Online Bettors

Locate proxy servers physically in Delaware.  People from other States would likely use the service in order for geolocation to be in Delaware.

Delaware is first to OK full-service casino gambling -- online
... By 2013, due to a bill signed into law Thursday, people in Delaware will be free to play slots and roulette on their computers ...

http://www.ezproxies.com/shared-proxies 
Possibly $1/month, when buying 50 each month.


VPNs (the secure way to do this) are widely available.

http://hidemyass.com/vpn
$11.52 / month

http://www.vpngates.com
$15 / month

http://provpnaccounts.com/Buy_VPN_Account-118-articles
$13.98 / month

Community Currency Add-Ons

Community currencies, based on coins (medallions), paper hours, or other chits are accepted by merchants.  This keeps the currency within the community.

Enable them to move from physical paper/coin currency to electronic.

Online trading exchange to trade community currency for dollars or metal.

Bank currency, so it can be spent - Mobile app to spend banked currency.  Present QR code to merchant, or buy online at website.

Banking paper currency + mobile app + backend infrastructure will require funding.  Charge a check-in fee when banking paper currency.  Charge a transaction fee for online/mobile app.

To gain members, use MLM.  Recruit new user and get a part of their transaction fee.  Go several levels deep.

The transaction fee can also be split with a local non-profit, which the user chooses.  Optionally send user a yearly donation statement for tax deduction.

For local merchants, have the mobile app / email provide coupons & specials.  Merchant ads would have the $$$ sign (like facebook or twitter symbol often seen in print ads.)

Clone as SaaS - Thunderhead Forms

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunderhead_(software)

... deploying a centralized shared service for claims correspondence and policy assembly using the Thunderhead CCM solution. The project aims to improve the user experience, ensure forms compliance, cut forms maintenance costs and deliver multichannel customer communication.

Thunderhead Launches New Forms Management Feature Set

Credit Union - Groupon, Remote IT office mgmt, BoD packet, scorecard

Credit Unions provide financial services for a limited local membership group.  Their growth prospects are typically limited to a restrictive membership group.  They are member-owned, and may have lower salary structures.

For their membership group, allow a CU office send targeted Groupon-like ads to businesses in their membership group.  Could also serve businesses outside the membership group, at a higher price.

CU offices typically don't have an IT staff.  PC and firewall support is often outsourced.  Though it is little different from a small office, for marketing target a service to CUs.

For board of directors, provide an automated board packet generation service.  Include meeting minute template.

Provide system & process for generating business plan, targets, and for tracking execution with a scorecard.  Include in reviews of senior management for possible automatic generation based on variables (overall interest rate spread, charge-offs, etc).

FAX Service

Two types of service.

a) provide dedicated phone number for incoming & outgoing FAXes.  Scan and make available to use online & PDF.
b) provide infrastructure to allow VoIP companies to add this service for their subscribers using their existing VoIP phone number.

$6.59/month 500 Pages
Toll-Free or Local Fax Numbers
Send and Receive Faxes as Email
Integrations
Secure Faxing
Edit and Sign Faxes Electronically
Fax Alerts
Online Account and Fax Logs

Mobile Virtual Network Operator (MVNO)

MVNO firms have been around for some years.  They purchase airtime from carriers and do their own branding/marketing/sales/customer care billing.  Verizon's website has information on how to apply to buy large blocks of minutes and receive CDRs.

Barron's article on what is the likely future for mobile - people buy data not voice minutes and voice runs over data.  The article discusses "WiFi offload" and the steep technical challenges of consistently making it work.


The End of the Traditional Telcos
By TIERNAN RAY
I'm going to go out on a limb and predict that we'll see the end of the traditional phone company over the course of the next several years.

The reason for that is the pace at which data—e-mails, text messages, Web pages, tweets—is displacing plain old phone calls.

Data usage exceeded voice calls in terms of total cellular network traffic for the first time in December of 2009 ...



A new MVNO could target every prepaid customer, remote sensors and vehicle tracking.  Then expand to traditional post-paid.

App - Pay For User Demographics

App that pays people (maybe $1/month or free ice cream/coffee each month or credit on cell phone bill) if they run the app constantly.  The app will automate check-in and collect demographics info.

How to sell the demographic info to marketers for local advertising and coupons.

Pet Tracker

Tagg for pets & livestock.

Are they using cellular data for GPS updates, or just the base station?

National Transit Database Reporting

Potential consulting and products for transport providers to track and upload data.  Data mining on the database could include maps & demographics.

NTD Homepage

Overview of the National Transit Database (NTD)

As a condition for receiving funding from the federal government, transit systems need to report on several aspects of their operation.  One such aspect is how well the system meets the requirements of the Americans With Disabilities Act . Another is how well the system meets the goals of Title VI, which mandate that transit services be distributed in an equitable and non-racist manner. Perhaps the most important reports they make are of their safety, security, finances, and ridership, which form the basis of their entry in the  National Transit Database.

Monthly Reporting Manual PDF

Software: ArcView Hastus
"tracking system powered by new digital radios using a GPS function to locate buses through custom software system paid for by a $57,000 grant"

App & Hardware - Solar Measuring Tool

Why is this not a specialized monitor that connects to a smartphone with software on phone or web?

SunEye 210 Shade Tool
Base Price: $1,995.00Fisheye camera, dedicated on-board processor to perform digital image processing and analysis to compute shading and solar access percentages.  Electronic compass and inclinometer to measure roof pitch and azimuth.
GPS +200
PV Designer Software one year +400
Extender (18' pole) +495

Lead-free Lipstick

I heard all lipsticks contain lead.  That is likely an exaggeration.  Said California Proposition 65 requires lead labeling, so this claim could be verified.

Difficulty - How expensive to develop/test new lipsticks?
Competition - Which natural product companies are creating lead-free lipstick?
Production cost - ?
Marketing cost - ?Retail price - up to $48
More women are spending above the $30 mark for lipstick ...
... Poppy King for J. Crew, last August. Priced at $18 a tube, the first run soon sold out. Sales exceeded expectations three- to fivefold ...

Wifi Enable an Oximeter

3-In-1 Deluxe Pulse Oximeter by Quest Products
Measures Blood Oxygen Saturation, Pulse Rate and Blood Flow

$38 + $3 shipping.

Why is this not already wifi/bluetooth enabled to a hosted data logger?  Charts, alarms.

Credit Report Monitoring

$14.99 monthly

What does it cost to access the 3 consumer credit bureaus?

Infrastructure:
customer sign up
customer monthly billing
daily - pull customer's credit bureau reports
daily - look for changes and email when appropriate

Inmate Cash Management

Inmate Banking Software
http://www.stellar-services.net/lockdowntour.html

Residential High End Ice Maker

Would have been great to have been selling these into the McMansion building boom. At $2700, there is room for competition.

Manage Currency Risk

Software to help manage currency risks.  Implement as add-ons to SaaS accounting systems and hook in to big-name standalone systems such as SAP and Oracle.

WSJ article:

 ... software from FiREapps, which costs Itron about $100,000 a year, pulls data about the company's currency risks around the world from Itron's accounting systems. Software from Reval, at another $100,000 a year, uses that data to help Mr. Barrie's team decide on the right hedging trades to make, and the trades are executed using the FXAll trading system from FX Alliance Inc., which costs Itron $20,000 a year.

...

Treasurers say they look at the software's cost as an insurance premium against the possibility of currency losses. The typical cost is "high five figures to low six figures" annually, says Amol Dhargalkar of Chatham Financial, which helps companies hedge currencies.

The software generally replaces a painstaking system that involves finance-department staffers emailing a plethora of Excel spreadsheets around ... data from the spreadsheets frequently is stale.

QR Code Registry

Allow generation and redirect for personal/business QR codes.  Provide campaign management and analytics.

Low end will be personal static for people to put on business card or bumper sticker.
Medium-large will be marketing campaigns - billboards, fliers, satisfaction surverys on receipts.

Price will be a brutal race to the bottom.  For always-on reliability will need hosting on stable cloud provider.  World wide market.


http://delivr.com/qr-code-generator

https://www.qrdatacenter.com/html/how-it-works.html
$49.95 a month

http://www.qrstuff.com/faqs.html#subscriptions
Advanced feature set of the website is available to all subscribers using a time-based subscription model:
24 hour - $3.95
1 month - $11.95
3 months - $27.95 (save 20% compared with 1 month subscription)
6 months - $49.95 (save 30% compared with 1 month subscription)
12 months - $85.95 (save 40% compared with 1 month subscription)

Delinquent Account Collections

Many service providers have delinquent account collections groups which look at account balance, phone/email/text/mail customer to work out the past due payments.

Standalone systems can take a feed from the billing system, provide predictive dialing for call center, and update customer records when/if they pay.  Can be integrated for near realtime.

A hosted system could provide the functionality cheaper (monthly rate, flat rate per customer, revenue sharing) than decades-old systems such as:
CACS Enterprise collections system helps you reduce operating expenses, delinquencies, and write off's while building profitable customer relationships, and improve all aspects of your end-to-end collections and recovery operations.

Supporting high-volume processing for all consumer products and providing scalability for growth, CGI's solution pioneered the use of automated collections, and behavior-scoring treatments, as well as the credit industry's evolution from account to customer and age-based to risk-based collections.

CareZone (secure family website)

Over-priced.



Private, paid place on the Web where people can manage information they need to help care for aging parents, sick children or other loved ones.

$180 value. Care for up to three loved ones.

Aggregate Fuel Demand

At level of fuel shippers, this company aggregates demand to negotiate better prices from oil producers.

What it does is aggregate fragmented fuel demand from land, air and sea shippers to give them added buying power at oil companies. It also provides trade-credit fuel hedging and other services. It makes a small spread on each transaction, so it has no commodity-price risk.


World Fuel Services Corporation, a fuel logistics company, engages in the marketing, distribution, and sale of aviation, marine, and land fuel products and related services worldwide.
...  fuel and related services to commercial ...
... fuel management, price risk management, arranging ground handling ...
... provides a private label charge card to customers in the general aviation industry.
... management services for the procurement of fuel, and claims management.
... management services for the procurement of fuel and price risk management.

Hair Salon Barbicide

Manufacture and sell this formula and other cleaning products.

Host Free Software: School Admin

Open Admin for Schools

Open Administration for Schools (OAfS) is a Web-based school administration package.

Medical Device - Negative Pressure Wound Therapy

I was fitted with a negative pressure wound therapy device. It was a simple device consisting of a vacuum pump, a fluid reservoir and a tube running to my knee, and included some basic electronic controls. I carried it home and used it for two months.

I was appalled that the device was not available to purchase but had to be rented for about $4,500 per month. Dressings and reservoirs were replaced every few days at extra cost, of course.

I can visualize this simple device being sold at Wal-Mart for probably $39.95.

Consulting - Salesforce.com Experts

Like Eustace Consulting, get small and medium businesses onto salesforce.com.

... delivers Customer Relationship Systems, specifically SalesForce.com, to all different types of businesses.

... a Salesforce.com consulting company with a primary focus on developing and deploying Salesforce.com for customers. We’re mostly focused in the New England area, but we do have some customers in California and Texas. We’ve been in business since April of 2009 and since that time, we’ve worked with about 130 to 135 different companies.

... we’re expanding our scope and saying, ‘Wait, what do you do for email, what do you do for document storage?’ Because people are spending too much money on all these things when there are other more cost-effective solutions available.

... they can go to Google Apps for Business,which is cloud-based email, calendaring, contacts, and all the other features you would get with Microsoft Exchange.  All data is stored and hosted through Google, totally reliable, secure and saving companies significant amounts of money. And then, for document storage, we typically work with Dropbox or Box.net and work to migrate all of their data off old servers that they had previously had  to pay people to maintain.  We then move them up into the cloud and integrate everything into Salesforce.com.

They search in ‘Salesforce consulting Boston’ and we get some leads that way. We get leads from customer referrals, so when a customer has a good experience with us they refer us. Then, thirdly, and probably the biggest, is through our partner channels.

Concierge By City

Like a city-guide service, a prepay for a trip, or a-la-carte concierge per call, or prepay for year.

Recruit people in cities who are personable, will be there, and know the area so they can get things done - just like a concierge in a hotel.

Subsidized WiFi Chip for Embedded Devices

Manufacture a free or super-low cost for ethernet/wifi chipset.  Subsidy is made back because the device will "phone home" and occasionally do internet monitoring.

Online Voting Application

USA voters may be more comfortable using a USA vendor.  Offer to provide source code to USA governments who sign a contract.

An internationally-headquartered company, SCYTL, is now taking over online U.S. voting systems.

The company has previously faced questions about the security of its electronic voting technologies, which are now set to be deployed in 900 U.S. jurisdictions.

The firm already provides balloting for overseas U.S. military and civilian voting in nine states plus elections technologies in several districts.

App - Good listening

WSJ.com:

Ferrari argues that for listening to be effective, a participant in a conversation should speak only 20% of the time. Twenty percent. And when he does open his mouth to speak, he should demonstrate that he is "the Master of the Question."

Smartphone app that listens during a phone call and times who is speaking, then grades the call for listening.  Maybe could also do this in a meeting or with other conversations, by opening the mic.

No big money in this app.  Maybe a buck for the download.  Or free with stats going to a monthly subscription website that provides reports, guidance, coaching.

FEMA Spending Map

Put FEMA spending on a map that can zoom out/in.

Some FEMA spend info.

NameMyIdea.com NameMyBusiness.com

Online product name consulting.  Brief online form.  Person to create a name(s).


What should the name convey?  An emotion?  Highlight competitive advantage?

Exclude trademarks.  uspto.gov/ebc/tess

Add two words together.

Generate I R S Forms

Website to generate PDF letters to I R S to:
request master code;
request employment code;
challenge the employment code.

Want to not be a federal employee and not be [others...]

Gourmet Bacon

Read that curing meat and smoking meat is considered manufacturing and is prohibited in area zoned for agriculture.


Online single-sales and monthly subscriptions.  Gourmet, all-natural, different flavorings.

www.zingermans.com/Product.aspx?ProductID=G-BAC-3
3 month $99
6 month $189
Each shipment contains 12 to 16 ounces of artisan bacon, bacon stories, histories and recipes.
Bonus! Free awesome Pig Magnet with first club shipment.

Three Installments
Month 1: Applewood Smoked
Month 2: Kentucky Dry Cured
Month 3: Arkansas Peppered

Six Installments
Previous Bacons plus
Month 4: Virginia Dry Cured
Month 5: Tennessee Dry Cured
Month 6: Long Pepper

Reselling Gift Cards

Consulting and Website for Whistle Blowers

Whistleblower Web Reporting System
https://www.reportlineweb.com/Welcome.aspx?Client=cobank

Meal Planning

After this is rolling, the costs would be customer acquisition and retention.  If a person has this for a year, would they need the same recipes the next year?


Online weekly meal shopping lists.   Online coupon had $29 for 12 months ($58 Value).

E-Mealz charts out a week's worth of dollar- and healthy-savvy dinner recipes to relieve the burden of kitchen-related stress. Each week, organized grocery listscustomized by family size, dietary desires, and store preferences”showcase flavorful culinary creations for discerning palates. Plans developed by working parents capitalize on sale items at stores such as Wal-Mart and Kroger, and an "any store" list can be used to navigate the aisles of other favored grocers. Family meal plans serve seven meals for three to six people, whereas plans for two are tailored to singles, couples.
Special vegetarian, gluten-free, low-carb, low-fat, and portion-controlled meal-plan options aid nongeneric eaters in assembling targets for their teeth and post-holiday fitness regimens. The Wal-Mart family plan supplies culinary sustenance to families of three to six for an average weekly cost of $75-$85 and takes advantage of the store's regularly discounted prices. A duo can fill a  Publix cart for $35-$45 a week, including side dishes.

Diabetic Testing

Is it possible to make generic testing supplies that fit in other's devices?


http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203513604577140830225124226.html
The Telcare device works much like a traditional meter. You insert a test strip into a slot on the meter, then prick your finger with a lancing device to get a drop of blood, touch the strip to the drop, and wait for the reading to appear.
The difference is the meter immediately sends results to its online database ...
While many diabetes meters cost well under $50, or are free (the money is in the test strips), the Telcare meter costs $150 for a starter kit that includes the meter, a wall charger, a case and accessories. The cost drops to $100 if you subscribe to a one-year supply of test strips. The strips cost $56 for a container of 50, or $36 with the subscription. Insurance may reduce these costs.


http://www.healthcentral.com/diabetes/c/17/149104/telcare-reporting

VoIP Services

What is the cost of blocks of phone numbers?  Do they get incoming termination credits?


freedomvoice.com

$10/month. Free activation.
300 Free Minutes Per Month
4.9¢ Per Additional Minute
10 Voicemail Extensions

Also $25 and $60 plans.

Appears inbound minutes are free. Caps on outbound minutes.



www.inphonex.com/services/voip-liteline.php
Pay As You Go service with an incoming phone number of your choice.
$6/month

Consultancy to help to administer federal highway dollars

WSJ article:

...

The main source of the shelters' funding is gasoline-tax revenue raised from Oregon motorists and then distributed as part of an alphabet soup of federal programs supervised by state and local bureaucrats. Grants Pass (named for Ulysses S. Grant's decisive, if distant, victory in the siege of Vicksburg, Miss.) has accumulated millions of Federal Highway Administration dollars to cut down on congestion and air pollution.

...

But to spend the money, Grants Pass must navigate a thicket of regulations. For example, because the city isn't certified to administer federal highway dollars, it was compelled to collaborate with Oregon's Department of Transportation. The DOT, citing its own limited staff, handed off some of those responsibilities to a private consultancy.

"That probably added $140,000 to our budget," said Scott Lindberg, the Grants Pass official in charge of grant writing.

Choose Your Bonus

Posting on paying bonus in USA silver eagles to minimize taxes.

Website to allow employees to choose their own bonus.  Website handles fulfillment.
Employer puts in $ amount, and employee can choose.
USA silver eagle
comp time days
frequent flier / hotel points
gift cards (maybe juice-up the amount, or offer free shipping or another coupong)

www.bonustime.com
www.bonuschoice.com

Compensation Consulting

Previous post on compensation software.

Consulting to help firms with this area:

... assist clients with the design and implementation of annual incentive plans that motivate and reward employees in congruence with company goals.
... services to companies in all phases of the incentive plan design process including:
Benchmarking Performance Measures
Benchmarking Target Payouts
Designing Employee Payout Structures
Modeling the Financial Impact of Incentive Plan Design Alternatives
Drafting Incentive Plans and Employee Communications

Didn't Take Action - Eye-Fi

Discussed this idea with parents about eight years ago.
Many models, with cheapest at $45.

Warehouse Inventory Management

Manage inbound and outbound material flows while providing operational visibility to all warehouse activities.

Letter From Santa, Easter Bunny, Tooth Fairy

Free printable letter.
http://www.letterfromsanta.org

Upgrade to package of letter + door hanger + gifts.

Consulting - Identity Management

For cloud-only apps, how are they doing provisioning and identity management.  There should already by cloud provision/idM providers online.  What is their pricing model?
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Solutions Architect-Identity Management: Quest Software, Inc.
Job Category Sales; Technology
Position Type Full-Time, Employee
Experience 5-10 Years Experience
Desired Education Level Other
Date Posted January 8, 2011 (Reposted Jan 9)


Since 1987, we've earned the confidence and loyalty of our customers and employees while becoming one of the top five companies in the IT management industry. We develop innovative solutions to help our 100,000+ customers around the globe tackle the toughest IT challenges easier and faster - and save a ton of money. It's something we call Simplicity at Work. Not only are we about making things simple for our customers, but we are committed to making it easy for employees to love what they do while they're here. Through our dynamic work environment, extensive benefits, and casual dress code (just to name a few advantages), we don't overcomplicate things. Our employees continually have options and can choose what works for them, not the other way around. Quest is a place of possibilities.

It's simplicity at work for a more rewarding life.

As a member of the Presales team, you will play a key role as a technical liaison for Senior Sales Representatives and clients. You will be presenting and demonstrating Quest’s Identity Management Solutions at customer sites, performing white board presentations, architecture overviews, product walkthroughs and proof of concepts. This is a field position that requires 60 – 70% travel to clients. The position can be based in anywhere in the Western US.


Technical Requirements:

• 3+ years hands on experience in Identity Management, including experience in:

- User Provisioning and management

- Help Desk, User Self Service and password management

- Computer Associates Identity Management (or Netegrity)

- Multiple Directory Integration or Synchronization

- Account workflow and management

- Single Sign On and system integration to consolidate user accounts/identities


A key indicator of this experience would be a skill set that includes one or more of the following product suites:

- IBM/Tivoli Identity Management

- Oracle Identity Management (or Oblix/COREid/Thor)

- Computer Associates Identity Management (or Netegrity)

- MIIS (Microsoft Identity Integration Server or MMS (Microsoft Management Server) or Zoomit)

- SunOne Identity Management

- Novell Identity Manager

- BMC Identity Management (or Passlogix)


In addition, the candidate must have experience with one or more of the following technologies:

- Microsoft Active Directory

- SunOne Directory Server (or JavaOne/iPlanet Directory Server)

- Novell eDirectory

- LDAP

- NIS

- Kerberos

- Unix/Linux account management


Additional Requirements:

- Available to travel 2 - 4 days/week

- Excellent presentation, business, analytical, problem solving and communication skills (written and verbal)

- Demonstrated ability to successfully execute procurement activities: RFP responses, trial execution, installation and tuning

- B.A./B.S. in CS/CIS/MIS/Business or related field equivalent
 
Keywords: sales engineer, pre-sales, presales, pre sales, sales consultant, systems engineer, unix
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Oracle's white paper overview

http://www.oracle.com/us/products/middleware/identity-management/overview/index.html?origref=http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/press/523406
Oracle Identity Management is a complete and integrated, next-generation identity management platform that provides breakthrough scalability; enables organizations to achieve rapid compliance with regulatory mandates; secures sensitive applications and data regardless of whether they are hosted on-premise or in a cloud; and reduces operational costs.

Oracle identity analytics.  http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/testcontent/index-089952.html

Fischer Identity™ enables organizational effectiveness and agility, mitigates risk, controls costs and enables regulatory compliance.  Cloud or on-premise.
user provisioning and password management.
no need for coding.

aurionPro Sena
http://www.senasystems.com/practices/identity-management

Political Campaign Items

Create items for fans of political campaign.  These salt & pepper shakers might sell.

  These appear to be cheap plastic:
http://shop.boingboing.net/product/Retro-Arcade-Salt-Pepper-Shakers
$19.95

Datalogix - Software Engineer

DLX is a fast-growing, privately-held company on the cutting edge of digital media marketing. We made our mark by leveraging the power of purchase-based audience targeting to drive measurable online and offline sales. Today, our data includes almost every U.S. household and more than $1 trillion in consumer transactions down to the SKU level. No other firm is better positioned to deliver the right message to the right audience right now.

With a 10-year track record of sustained profitability and a true entrepreneurial work environment, DLX offers top talent all the excitement of a start-up environment with less of the risks. That's one important reason why two of the leading venture capital firms in the country -- Sequel and General Catalyst -- continue to fund our growth.

Oh -- and wait 'til you see the DLX world-class work environment. This position is located in our Boulder area office. It's a place you'll love going to every day, in a part of the country that delivers more than 250 days of sunshine each year

Job Description:

Datalogix is looking for a Software Engineer to join our existing development team. This position will involve day to day development of new and existing applications based on business requirements. Our work environment is very team oriented which requires good communication skills. We also value generalists over specialists, so the candidate will be expected to play a variety of roles as a member of one of our Agile development teams. We use a variety of technologies, however, we don't expect the candidate to know all of them, we only expect an eagerness to learn and work with all of them.

Responsibilities include:
*Working as a member of an Agile Software Development Team to help implement new functionality based on business requirements.
*Developing new programs and supporting existing programs in Linux and Windows environments.
*Interaction with the Datalogix business and operations teams will be required to assist them in working with clients and working through technical implementation and customer service issues.
*Performance testing in a high volume Internet infrastructure.
*Developing primarily server-side solutions in C# and Java.
*Developing in a variety of database technologies including; Oracle, MS SQL Server, MySQL and Netezza.
*Limited development, testing and troubleshooting of Javascript and HTML.
*Writing scripts and programs to process and move large volumes of data.
*Troubleshooting of web server issues and incoming web requests from partners and clients.

Skills and Qualifications:
*Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, MIS or related field preferred.
*Experience working with Javascript and HTML is required.
*Experience developing in either C# or Java is required.
*Experience in either PHP or Perl is required. Linux (Emacs or Vi) experience is required.
*Hands-on experience with administration or development of web servers is required.
*Knowledge of either Oracle, MySQL and MS SQL server is required.
*Internet Ad serving or high volume web site experience is preferred.
*Ability to work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment Willingness to work with clients and perform technical customer support is required.
*Strong communication skills required to interact with Agile team members.

Currently, third party candidates and candidates requiring visa sponsorship will not be considered for this position

Jessica Quintana | HR Coordinator | Datalogix
303.327.1721 d | jessica.quintana@datalogix.com

We're hiring. See our Careers page at datalogix.com/careers

Real Audiences. Real Results.

Facial Recognition Deterrence

Contacts, sunglasses, or pretend reading glasses that hinder facial recognition.

• Obscure bridge area (between eyes, forehead/nose intersection
• Glass/plastic coating to prevent transmission of IR/UV to hinder eye color determination.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Ultraviolet
http://en-us.transitions.com/en/experience/default.aspx

Manage Prescription Drug Claims

Manage prescription drug claims for employers, government agencies, and health plans.

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Pharmacy_benefit_management
Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM) is a third party administrator (TPA) of prescription drug programs. They are primarily responsible for processing and paying prescription drug claims. They also are responsible for developing and maintaining the formulary, contracting with pharmacies, and negotiating discounts and rebates with drug manufacturers.

SXC purchased a provider.

HealthTrans, is a privately held company formed in 2000 and based in Greenwood Village, Colorado. We process approximately 100 million claims annually for clients, representing 15.3 million lives and approximately $4 billion in prescription drug spend.
HealthTrans has a proven history in administering discount health plans, and managing one of the three largest discount drug programs available in the United States. Currently HealthTrans has 10.6 million discount pharmacy cardholders nationwide, saving members nearly $225 million since 2006.

Manage RFPs

Request For Proposals begin the contracting process.

Manage creation of RFPs and publication for competitive bid.  Manage bid process.  Manage awarding contract.

2011 top 10 apps

http://lifehacker.com/5870288/top-10-under+hyped-web-apps-2011-edition?tag=lifehacker-top-10

Prepaid Air Travel

  Company to aggregate the following and sell use to small companies/individuals.

• Contract with airlines to pre-buy blocks of seats (specific flights or anytime use).
• Pre-buy time on fractional airlines.
• Pre-buy entire flights and sell/manage for sports team travel.
• Pre-buy entire flights during high-value days such as day before Presidential winners party.

http://www.united.com/page/article/0,1360,2964,00.html
Upfront discounts of up to 25% or fixed fares for the duration of the active contract
Available plans ranging from $10,000 to $250,000 annually

http://www.united.com/press/detail/0,6862,52653,00.html
Elite Prepaid Travel Card will also reward purchasers with a 5 percent discount on domestic United, United Express and Ted flights

http://www.united.com/page/article/0,6722,52227,00.html
United PassPlus Exec
With PassPlus Exec, you can fly to domestic destinations on premium fares (F, J or Y) and receive a 25% discount off the published fare. International fares (F, J, Y or B) receive a 25% discount off the published fare.

The Funding Place .com

Website with processes to fund any size.

ChipIn
Micro loans
Small LLC with share ownership tracking
Non-public shareholders selling shares in secondary unlisted market
Go public with Dutch auction

Online Commission Aggregator

searchOutHunger.com
Search engine where click payments go to non-profit.
Web browser toolbar search.