Money making ideas

Access to a rare supplier

You have access to a supplier of a rare good meaning you have a form of exclusivity. For example could be gained by travel to China and find something rare but valued in EU. Become an importer of that thing.

Exclusive access to a supplier

Cut a deal with a supplier for exclusive access to their product.

Intimate knowledge of a complex product

Gain deep knowledge of a complex product (for example circuit board manufacture). Build a system that makes this understandable and usable for a larger group. Exclusivity is the intimate knowledge encoded in the system.

Supplier capital

Build up relationships with a group of suppliers and make price knowledge the product for user. For example booking.com, inknomad - be the online marketing for a group of suppliers. The exclusivity is in the large network of relationships.

Unique solution to a problem

Take a common problem and come up with a superior solution. Exclusivity is in the idea generation and the creativity.

Intimate knowledge of a complex domain

You become the product. Consultancy, contract work, talks, books, blog posts.

Sweet spot - Ikigai

Find the sweet spot as the intersection of these four things:

  • What you like doing
  • What you are good at
  • What makes money
  • What the world needs

What I like doing

  • Taking things apart
  • Building things using wood, metal, screws, bolts
  • Programming new things
  • Explaining things to people
  • Spending time with good people
  • Working alone
  • Spending time outside
  • Picking through junk looking for gold

What am I good at

  • Seeing the big picture
  • Deep knowledge of a system I am working on
  • Starting things
  • Programming

What makes money

  • Having exclusivity

What the world needs

  • More even distribution of wealth
  • More even distribution of skills
  • Stronger communities

Building new things using programing, where I am involved in explaining things to people, that helps people improve their skills and gain wealth and results in a stronger community.

Conflicts

  • I like working alone, but I like the company of others and I believe in community.
  • I like starting new things but do not like the long slog of finishing them.