Get Rich
M1’s post on getting rich reminds me of a story…
One class I took in college was VA453 - The Entrepreneur (how I remember the number I’ll never know). Anyway, it was a class about entrepreneurship and whatnot. Part of the class was writing a business plan and presenting it, kind of like a final paper.
My partners were Grenert and Claus. Our product was a tabletop contraption that simultaneously dispensed ketchup and mustard, so save the time from having to do both individually on somehting like a hamburger or hotdog. It had variable dispense rates. We even talked about an industrial version for use in fast food restaurant kitchens…you know, like at McDonalds when they have these “guns” that hang from the ceiling. We talked about how using this type of contraption would reduce the amount of time it took to make a hamburger and thus saved overhead in the long run.
I thought it was a good propsal.
Tom Mason did not think so. He gave us a C+, if I remember correctly. Terch.
I still think it’s viable. M1, are you in for making this step 1?
August 25th, 2005 at 1:27 pm
It’s not a good idea. Me and joe miller had a similar idea during the summer of D. We had it all planned out and had a name picked out. Then I saw the seinfeld episode where kramer gets an intern from NYU and tries out that bladder for oil tankers to prevent oil spills. After it breaks on jerry’s girlfriend’s head Kramer comes up with the exact same idea…a dispenser for ketchup and mustard at the same tim.