Fast Pooed
This didn't come to fruition, unfortunately, so slightly off brief.

Back in the late nineties, when I was a teenager, me and a friend were talking about another friend of ours who'd got bad IBS and had a special diet to help him cope. Why, we thought, do us folk with normal bowels not get the benefit of such customised nutritional ministrations?

Why, in fact, did someone not start a cafe where they'd serve you food based on your current digestive issues. Constipated? Try the chef's special curry, followed by stewed apple dessert. Diarrhea? Try the three-course fibre special, with a round of un-buttered toast on the side.

Realising the lack of practicality of us opening a cafe, with no experience, we decided it might work as a website (this was back when there weren't millions of websites doing dietary advice). So my friend, who had taken the whole thing much more seriously than me, went off and developed a business plan to hire a nutritionist and a chef for the necessary few weeks needed to set up a website where you could, essentially, describe your poo, and we'd give you recipes.

However, he was persuaded by his college's business studies tutor that it was a terrible idea, and that he'd be better off selling something like mouse-mats, that the sort of people who were on the internet would need... as I say, this was the late nineties.

Therefore, i went off to Uni, whilst my friend took a year out to become an Internet Millionaire by selling mousemats via a horribly designed website. He realised it wouldn't work in the first six months, and spent the rest of his year-out playing his N64 and developing a crippling masturbation addiction.

Nowadays, of course, there's loads of sites which would do this sort of thing. I'm genuinely disappointed he was diverted by the mousemats.
(SnowyTheWereRabbit the Leporid from Hell, Thu 17 Nov 2011, 13:44, 1 reply)

Rule one of Business
Definition of an expert. This is two words conjoined into one.
Ex: as in has-been
Spurt: as in a drip under pressure

Or put in a better way, if you have a proper business plan that can stand up to being tested. Go for it
(Sir Tainley Barking Ezekiel 23:20, Sat 19 Nov 2011, 19:29, closed)