{"id":153,"date":"2009-01-01T22:35:02","date_gmt":"2009-01-02T04:35:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/?p=153"},"modified":"2009-01-01T22:35:02","modified_gmt":"2009-01-02T04:35:02","slug":"coming-up-with-an-idea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/01\/coming-up-with-an-idea\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming up with an idea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-154\" title=\"Consumer Electronics\" src=\"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/consumer_gifts-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Consumer Electronics\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/consumer_gifts-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/consumer_gifts.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/>My first task for my &#8220;Starting a Business&#8221; class was to think of a business I wanted to work on for the entire semester. I brainstormed for about a week and half about potential ideas. I found the most useful formula for plausible ideas came from combining three things:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Something I&#8217;m interested in<\/li>\n<li>Something I know how to do (or at least have a clue about)<\/li>\n<li>Something that people will pay for<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>In the end I settled on an e-commerce website that sells consumer electronics. I&#8217;ve always been interested in gadgets and gizmos so consumer electronics matched that interest. A large part of my current job can be categorised as &#8220;web stuff&#8221;. While my skills are much more refined on the marketing and content side, I understand the programming side enough to be dangerous. So, creating an e-commerce website isn&#8217;t too much of a stretch for the something I know how to do category. In order to figure out something people would pay for I needed to find a good angle about purchasing consumer electronics. We&#8217;ll explore that in the next post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first task for my &#8220;Starting a Business&#8221; class was to think of a business I wanted to work on for the entire semester. I brainstormed for about a week and half about potential ideas. I found the most useful formula for plausible ideas came from combining three things: Something I&#8217;m interested in Something I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"url":"","client":"","location":"","start_date":"","end_date":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[90,41,42],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":156,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesvandyke.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}