Reference Page, Links, Brainstorming

different ways to look at it:

40 Ideas For A New Business. From the Canada/British Columbia Business Service Centre. Concise ways to think about new products, new businesses and extensions of your current business. Helps you look at product development in a new light.

Add Value To Existing Products

Assemble A Product

Become A Distributer

Become A Supplier

Become An Agent

Become An Export Distributor

Become An Import Distributor Or Agent

Buy A Franchise

Capitalize On A Growth Trend

Cater To Discarded Markets

Combine Components

Cover Market Gaps Or Shortages

Create A Market Demand

Expand Market Areas

Find A Good Product That Has Failed

Find People With Under-Used Skills

Find Uses For Waste Materials

Franchise Your Business

Identify Opportunities Arising From Your Current Business

Identify The Full Scope Of Your Business

Imitate A Successful Product Or Idea

Improve An Existing Product Or Service

Invent A New Product or Service

Locate A Patent Opportunity

Manufacture And Market Under License

Market Someone Else’s Product

Offer Discount Goods For Resale

Package Or Unpackage Existing Products

Plan And Promote Events

Provide A Consultation Or information Service

Recycle An Existing Product

Replace Imports

Serve Unique Client Groups

Substitute Materials In Existing Products

Take Advantage Of A Market Switch

Take Advantage Of Circumstances

Take Advantage Of New Fashions Or Fads

Target A Small Part Of A Large Market

Transfer A Concept From One Industry To Another

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this is the draft of a chapter i wrote for High Frequency. A specialized farming theme like we are talking about.

Dr. Lucien and his cactus

Lucien took the stairs, leaving the clinic floor of his house to go down to his lab. A cloning lab. The ordinary sort long used by botanists and growers to propagate plants. He had hundreds of young plants growing from clumps of a few cells in test tubes. The test tubes were filled with liquid nutrients including rare earth elements used to make super fast computer chips. He walked through the lab, grabbing a sandwich and a drink from the refrigerator by the back door.

Outside he walked the hillside along a limestone ledge and sat down on a large flat rock, serving as a table top where he took his lunch. He looked out around his property and felt satisfaction. This was his 'farm', invisible to the untrained eye. Thousands of his cactus species thrived here unnoticed. They were so tiny, never growing beyond the size of a fingernail. They grew in the cracks in rocks, in between the pebbles of the top soil. If you didn't know what you were looking for you would need to get on your knees with a magnifying glass.

Lucien finished his lunch and walked his cactus farm, checking the antenna cables that collected the special frequencies they emitted as sometimes deer, raccoons or javalinas would disturb them.

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