Here are some responses from entrepreneurial friends to the question I asked yesterday, which was:
You suddenly wake up two thousand miles away from home, knowing no-one and without access to your usual network and resources (including cash, credit cards, mobile phone, laptop, etc). You need £200 to get home and you have only £100 in your pocket. How long would it take you to double your money and how would you do it?
I'd buy a blender, a box of watermelons and a pack of ice and sell £2 glasses of chilled watermelon juice to 100 thirsty commuters at the station.
Or buy the Racing Post, sit in the bookies (free coffee) and back 10 favourites at £5 each way.
A couple of hours.
Marion Ryan
Websites and Blogs Designed with Love
http://www.readysteadyblog.com/
Oooh – now there’s a challenge, Ann.
Not very long, I think, don’t you – and so many ways I’ve
lost count.
Presumably I could go into an internet café? Which means I
could bang up a website in no time and sell some of my expertise. One consult
via Skype = £200 surely?
Actually an internet café would be the end of the problem
really.
Or I could go into a printer’s and print some flyers and
distribute them myself for a free seminar in which I would teach them something
worth £x each if they come to a venue I had already blagged off someone earlier
in the day for a profit share.
Or I would sell shares in something I was creating in return
for a profit share and sell it to one high roller with £100 or five with £20 or
100 with £1, whatever. I would just hang out in a Starbucks making contacts
until I hit pay dirt.
I might negotiate a loan from a local branch of HSBC since I
am a premier banking client.
Sadly don’t have enough time to really enjoy myself with this
one today, but shall think about it for some time to come, possibly even blog
about it. But I reckon I could do it within the day.
Judith Morgan
www.creativeentrepreneursclub.com
At one of the seminars I attended we did the paperclip game. Each team had a paperclip and had 40 mins to make as much money as poss by swapping it for something of greater value.
The winning team made over £100,000 in 40 mins. Our team got £100 and the 'worst' team got £35. All in 40 mins from 20 paperclips!!
Cool.
I would busk! Singing and comedy and spend the £ on a great frock to attract people!
Claire
www.happynurses.co.uk
Here are some responses from entrepreneurial friends to the question I asked yesterday, which was:
You suddenly wake up two thousand miles away from home, knowing no-one and without access to your usual network and resources (including cash, credit cards, mobile phone, laptop, etc). You need £200 to get home and you have only £100 in your pocket. How long would it take you to double your money and how would you do it?
I'd buy a blender, a box of watermelons and a pack of ice and sell £2 glasses of chilled watermelon juice to 100 thirsty commuters at the station.
Or buy the Racing Post, sit in the bookies (free coffee) and back 10 favourites at £5 each way.
A couple of hours.
Marion Ryan
Websites and Blogs Designed with Love
http://www.readysteadyblog.com/
Oooh – now there’s a challenge, Ann.
Not very long, I think, don’t you – and so many ways I’ve lost count.
Presumably I could go into an internet café? Which means I could bang up a website in no time and sell some of my expertise. One consult via Skype = £200 surely?
Actually an internet café would be the end of the problem really.
Or I could go into a printer’s and print some flyers and distribute them myself for a free seminar in which I would teach them something worth £x each if they come to a venue I had already blagged off someone earlier in the day for a profit share.
Or I would sell shares in something I was creating in return for a profit share and sell it to one high roller with £100 or five with £20 or 100 with £1, whatever. I would just hang out in a Starbucks making contacts until I hit pay dirt.
I might negotiate a loan from a local branch of HSBC since I am a premier banking client.
Sadly don’t have enough time to really enjoy myself with this one today, but shall think about it for some time to come, possibly even blog about it. But I reckon I could do it within the day.
Judith Morgan
www.creativeentrepreneursclub.com
http://www.frgbmanagement.com/frgb/home.html
The winning team made over £100,000 in 40 mins. Our team got £100 and the 'worst' team got £35. All in 40 mins from 20 paperclips!!
Cool.
I would busk! Singing and comedy and spend the £ on a great frock to attract people!
Claire
www.happynurses.co.uk