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Conduct Market Analysis by paying members to fill surveys
A synergy would arise through the monetary incentive given to the members, the survey results that can be sold to firms and the market analysis tools that we can provide to analyze these.
March 25th, 2010 by Joan
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Video, Important People & Feeds
With Ideas still being at the very center of the website, we could add little satellites. Videos of breaking out concepts (people like videos), Important People that may be interesting to collaborate with and an RSS feed aggregator displaying news from Wired to Fortune.
February 26th, 2010 by Joan (+5 rating, 2 votes) Loading ...
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Improve Drafts option
The draft option is very useful and I think it could be improved and become even more useful. When I have a quick idea and have no time to write it fully it’s amazing, but we should have something on the homepage that shows every member that they have uncompleted ideas and that they need [...]
February 20th, 2010 by Jonas (+5 rating, 1 votes) Loading ...
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Merge Ideas
There could be an option on the website to merge two related ideas. They would appear next to each other, so would their comments. Then new comments would be for the combination, like I tried to picture it there:
February 18th, 2010 by Joan (+10 rating, 2 votes) Loading ...
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Eased registering
I just subscribed to http://allrecipes.com, without an hesitation. Why? Because it was too easy. Go on any recipe, this one for example http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/Scott-Hibbs-Amazing-Whisky-Grilled-Baby-Back-Ribs/Detail.aspx looks just great. Now click on “Add to Recipe Box” and you’ll see a nice and easy ajax popup, that’s how our subscription form should be!
February 17th, 2010 by Joan (+5 rating, 1 votes) Loading ...
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Create YOUR Idea Group
I was Just thinking this website is growing to be a community. But it also has to have micro-communities. Giving our visitors the option to create their own idea groups ( they could even put their brand name for a minimal fee) would generate extra interest to the site and force people to invite their [...]
February 15th, 2010 by Jonas (+5 rating, 1 votes) Loading ...
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Business model template
Maybe there should be an option in the new idea tool allowing you to insert a business model template. Not to heavy, just the main categories like: target market, source of revenue, costs. A couple of numbers wouldn’t hurt either.
February 15th, 2010 by Joan (+5 rating, 1 votes) Loading ...
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How to evaluate an idea (2)
Let’s talk some more about about the rating system: on a website that aims to provide business ideas, a simple 5 stars rating system is not serious enough. This is not a picture rating skyblog. There must be several criterias such as originality, doability, sustainability and profitability if we want to be credible. These would [...]
February 5th, 2010 by Henry
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Find sponsors for smartideabox.com
A thought came to my mind to give more incentive for people to sign up and to share their ideas. If we find a sponsor that will give money for the best idea every 6-3 months, based on rating and then on a vote by members. The sponsor company would of course get a percentage [...]
February 1st, 2010 by Jonas (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...
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The SIB facebook group
We have just created a facebook group for SIB: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=278935702084&ref=ts One of the advantages of a facebook group is that you can send a message to all members. I thought we could send one everymonth, with the month’s best rated idea.
February 1st, 2010 by Joan (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...
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Spotted Ideas
When researching the hits the websites gets i realized that 99% of the visitors we get come to check ideas they were looking for on google. For example we got many its from the “FramVille on Iphone” thread. I was thinking that SmartIdeaBox could also be a database of ideas that might have already been [...]
January 28th, 2010 by Jonas (+5 rating, 1 votes) Loading ...
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Increasing guest interaction
To ease guest interaction is essential for this website. furthermore this is what people want now days. I have a few ideas for this. 1) integrate a Facebook like chat 2) being able to have a more complete profile page 3) being able to add someone as a friend like Facebook too—> this i think [...]
January 27th, 2010 by Jonas (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...
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Advertise this website…
I know it can be a risk as it isn’t 100% operational…why don’t we add a beta to our name and start getting members by any means…Getting feedback and maybe experienced hands.. How can we increase the ratio of the number of guest that actually sign up… how can we increase the number of times [...]
January 27th, 2010 by Jonas (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...
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Ajax that
A couple of things could be ajaxed. The “new idea” tool, the comment form and the login for example.
January 24th, 2010 by admin (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...
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Recently updated and stars
The recently uptdated post list seems to be working. Should definitly be implemented. Also release the stars for visitors.
January 11th, 2010 by Joan (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...
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New name
What do you think of: – www.ideedee.com – www.dididea.com ? Both are available.
December 10th, 2009 by Henry (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...
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Categories
I feel like there are too many categories. I know it is hard to find an appropriate solution but I know people don’t want to go through a long list like that… 1) According to me a category should be created: Economy. It would talk about the big macroeconomical problems, interst rates, employment and prices. [...]
November 27th, 2009 by Henry (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...
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Private Posts
Shouldn’t appear in the last comments widgets. Bad for SEO since they return 404 error and not really private either.
November 26th, 2009 by Joan (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...
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Remove the bold character
Why is the first paragraph of comment in bold and not the following ones?
November 24th, 2009 by Henry (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...
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Write an idea from any page
The possibility to write an idea should appear on any page. For the moment the only way I see is going back to the home page…
November 24th, 2009 by Henry (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...
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Startup Costs for ideas
Look at this page: http://www.entrepreneur.com/businessideas/453.html We spoke a several times about numbers, money and business plans. I find especially interessant that they put a range of startup investement for every ideas featured on the website. Maybe we could implement that.
November 24th, 2009 by Joan (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...
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Profiles on SIB
On this page: http://smartideabox.com/author/joan/ There should be a cool profile, including: – A profile picture – The average rating – The number of posted ideas – The list of the user’s favorite ideas Also, some of those informations should appear for example on the left of the single_post page, on top of the categories. Those [...]
November 15th, 2009 by Joan (+5 rating, 1 votes) Loading ...
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Request ideas
Like on yahoo questions and answers, people should be able to request ideas. That means not only propose new ideas, but also explain their business, the issues they encounter, and launch a brainstorming.
November 15th, 2009 by admin (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...
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a few sib improvements
In the “not logged in” pitch, sign in and register should be in tabs, instead of sending the user to another page through a link. (sure about that?) Also, last ideas/best rated should also be presented in tabs. Definitely, there should be a tab javascript to do all that. The theme’s folder & name should [...]
November 15th, 2009 by Joan (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...
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THIS IS NOT AN IDEA
Let’s stop rating ideas about the ideabox, it’s useless and biases the average ranking of members, since it cannot be rated above 2.
October 8th, 2009 by Henry (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...
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Drawings and videos on ideabox
We should be able to make drawings, a sort of graffiti application on sib. Also post videos. Make those ideas live a bit!
October 4th, 2009 by Joan (+4 rating, 2 votes) Loading ...
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Spread sheets on ideabox
This idea happened to me while trying to put some numbers in an idea. Spreadsheets could be really powerful for presenting forecast, etc. I’m sure there is a plugin for that.
September 27th, 2009 by Joan (+4 rating, 2 votes) Loading ...
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Think money
I just updated the meaning of the ratings. Now we talk money. The worst rating is “losing money”, then comes 0$ for ideas that won’t bring any cash in. Whenever rating an idea that won’t make any money (for example ideabox improvements) please rate 2, shall it be the best idea ever. Like that we [...]
September 26th, 2009 by Joan (+11 rating, 4 votes) Loading ...
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Pushing Ideas further into numbers
NUMBERS are what it’s all about. real forecasts and prediction, with market and competition analysis. It would be awesome to integrate into SmartIdeaBox.com with a quick tool where you can fill in the number of employees the expected costs and revenues for you specific idea. Forcing members to do some research sometimes would be really [...]
September 24th, 2009 by Jonas (+5 rating, 2 votes) Loading ...
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Rating needs a better meaning
If we want to put the people’s average rating next to their name, the criterias that define a rating must be better defined. For the last couple ideas, I rated 5. Of course, they were good ideas , and nothing to say about it. But they had nothing of a million dollars idea. So what [...]
September 23rd, 2009 by Henry (+2 rating, 1 votes) Loading ...
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Smart Idea Box – The facebook application.
Since, beside creativity, the very core of our business are members, we should create a SmartIdeaBox application for facebook to reach even more people. Imagine the huge potential (something like 300’000’000 members…) plus the fact that it could send notifications and invites, while everyone connects daily to their account. The requirements are that it should [...]
September 22nd, 2009 by Joan (+12 rating, 4 votes) Loading ...
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Link ideas
Their should be a quick tool for linking two ideas. Something like a spotlight search, then a “link” button. Everyone should be able to do it, that would make the related ideas tool even more efficient.
September 22nd, 2009 by Joan (+9 rating, 3 votes) Loading ...
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Smartideabox Public button and homepage
Every User should be able to make his idea public with a simple click. This idea would then be public to the whole wide world on the home page of SmartIdeaBox.com. This would be good marketing for the website and it would then make sense to create a section where members can apply in order [...]
September 22nd, 2009 by Jonas (+10 rating, 2 votes) Loading ...
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More social incentives
This website needs more social incentives. This is a list of some I thought of: – Displaying the number of ideas, comments and the average rating of members next to their names. – Displaying a “who’s in line” list. Also a “newest members” list. – Have a chat. – Have a private messaging system. What [...]
September 16th, 2009 by Joan (+12 rating, 3 votes) Loading ...
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List of uncommented ideas
We need such a list within the site, so that an idea never remains uncommented. That will also stimulate live on the box.
September 15th, 2009 by Joan (+10 rating, 2 votes) Loading ...
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Random ideas improvement
there should be a refresh button to display new forgotten ideas
September 2nd, 2009 by Joan (+10 rating, 2 votes) Loading ...
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Rewrite the rating plugin
The best rated idea should have 5 stars while the worst rated should have only a half. Between the two of them, the distribution should be linear, that means that instead of an arithmetic mean for each idea the final score should reflect all the ratings of the site.
August 24th, 2009 by Joan (No Ratings Yet) Loading ...
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pictures
There is no picture on this site. Pictures would make this site more interactive.
August 18th, 2009 by idrees (+11 rating, 3 votes) Loading ...
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Self-rating prohibition
I know it is a lot of programmation but it should be forbidden to vote for an idea creator to vote for his own idea.
August 13th, 2009 by Henry (+6 rating, 2 votes) Loading ...
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set the time
There is a time issue on smart ideabox. This has to be fixed asap.. And maybe instead of putting the posting time, we should have a “two hours ago” ala facebook.
August 12th, 2009 by Joan (+15 rating, 4 votes) Loading ...
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Smartideabox slogan
I think we need a good slogan. something like: “everlasting brainstorming” “share, store, create…” “when resfreshing minds come together” “bring em’ out the box” “sharing out the box”
August 12th, 2009 by Jonas (+12 rating, 3 votes) Loading ...
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title
Why is there no title on top of the website? Isn’t it fondamental??
August 9th, 2009 by astrid (+9 rating, 2 votes) Loading ...
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Last 10….0
We should have a button on the first page to chose the display of the last ideas feed. The number of them specially. And why not put ten more ideas at the bottom, say just the title.
August 9th, 2009 by admin (+8 rating, 2 votes) Loading ...
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Portfolio of ideas
There should be a button which always gives members the opportunity to reach the portfolio of all the ideas they wrote, a sort of profile, but containing ideas.
August 7th, 2009 by Henry (+8 rating, 2 votes) Loading ...
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Make idea private
I was thinking for example the idea about copying yelp. There should be an option for the creator of an idea to make his idea private and give him the possibility to choose which members he wants to elaborate further this idea. Members could also be able to enquire the creator of an idea to [...]
August 3rd, 2009 by Jonas (+9 rating, 2 votes) Loading ...
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Smartideabox potential business model strategy
Here’s a potential business model for this website: – The website could first be a plateform for a universitary contest of business ideas + business models (contest should include not only business schools but also engineering, political sciences and others); – The contest would be organized in collaboration with student associations (Ex: in switzerland: Junior [...]
August 3rd, 2009 by Henry (+13 rating, 3 votes) Loading ...
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Quick links
There should be some quick links allowing smartideabox users to: – Delete their comments – Edit their posts (maybe the on-place editor from scriptaculous) – Go to the wite page with full options – Have “more..” of recent comments, popular ideas, random ideas, etc Can you think of other missing links?
July 31st, 2009 by Joan (+4 rating, 1 votes) Loading ...
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Facebook-like notifications
I just thought that there should be notifications on smartideabox just like the ones on facebook. Showing: 1. the new comments on your ideas 2. the ratings you received 3. the new ideas you haven’t read etc…
July 31st, 2009 by Joan (+10 rating, 2 votes) Loading ...
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Idea ratings
Since the people who write ideas on the website are not random people, but rather serious people who are interested in business ideas and development, I thought about a more professional way of rating. The current one is actually original and quite fun, but very subjective too and it does not bring a concrete feedback [...]
July 31st, 2009 by Henry (+3 rating, 1 votes) Loading ...
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Online application
This is definitely a high-potential website. It is time for it to take off though. Members cannot only come with our social networks. The people targeted are not friends of ours but young (or older) entrepreneurs. This is not even an idea, just a suggestion to create an online application as soon as possible for [...]
July 30th, 2009 by Henry (+3 rating, 1 votes) Loading ...
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