Business ideas you can emulate (and improve)

You do not need to copy them as is. Give them a twist and adapt them to your market.

The Red Door at Work

Now that the shopping centers of half Spain are crowded with small manicure stands, we dare to talk about The Red Door at Work, a New York express manicure service that comes to your workplace.

At first we were hesitant, but then we saw that they offer 15 minutes for 15 euros and require a minimum of seven clients to come to your office, and he already convinced us to write about it.

Silvercar

How about an airport car rental agency that only has one car model and one color and can only be booked through a mobile application? It will sound better or worse to you, but you will not deny us that, how much less, it sounds different to you.

The idea, Silvercar, has come up with former ZipCar CTO Luke Schneider. It turns out that you are going on a trip in a couple of weeks and you need a car. You go and connect to the application, reservations, offer information about your trip (to which hotel, where are you going to have meetings and what kind of things do you like). When the day of the trip arrives and you land at the airport in question, a brand new Audi A4 awaits you there - remember, it has no more models - gray remember, they have no more colors - ready with your trip information loaded in your browser. To enter, you type the key of the vehicle in the application and the car opens.

In addition, once you get in, it tells you how much gasoline you are going to consume and when you return back to the airport it helps you find parking.

The headline thing is that you don't have to deal with human beings and it presupposes that you bring your disinfectant wipes to clean the steering wheel and seat ...

Bitsbox

If you don't have a neighbor who boasts in the elevator that her five-year-old daughter, the same one who just kicked you in the shin, just when her mother wasn't looking, the same one who also stuck out her tongue He goes to Chinese classes because Chinese is the language of the future, you know? the most normal thing is that this opportunity neither goes nor comes to you. As soon as we have seen BitsBox an American business that offers a correspondence course to learn to program in a fun way for children from five years old, it has won our little heart, hurt by the kick in the shin and because we only take our little girl to English. The course follows a subscription model that sends a box home with the challenges of that month for the children.

Hermes Secure Communication

No, it was not the idea of an American startup. It has occurred to Hermes Secure Communication, a Spanish company specialized in the development of secure communications systems. They have launched the first encrypted instant messaging system for lawyers, which allows you to enjoy the advantages of this type of system, but complying with the LOPD and other legal requirements in the lawyer-client relationship.

A publishing house for web designers… only?

Whoa, whoa. If this is not a niche ... Abookapart is an online book store for experts in web design. To you and me, to be honest, a book about the fonts that work best on the web tells us nothing, but ...

A book apart

Do you remember the editorial for web designers that we mentioned a few seconds ago? Yes? Great, because it has a second part, with the same protagonists, the same producers ... and that second part offers exclusive events for web designers that last two days: An Event Apart. Work protocols, practical examples ... For those who do not like to read it, but to listen to it.

Vitalacy

If you are as scrupulous as we are, don't read on. Or well, yes, read on, but with caution, let's not take off those latex gloves with which you take the magazine, run your fingers over the dirty screen of your tablet or hold with apprehension that source of microbes to which people normal call mouse. An Israeli company (hyginex.com) has set out to ensure that all medical staff in hospitals wash their hands when they have to (does this mean they don't do it right now…? Better not think about it…).

We have learned that each year more than a million people in the United States contract illnesses in hospitals that have nothing to do with the reason that forced them to enter. And that of that million, 100,000 die. Luckily that happens in the United States and not in Europe ... They have designed an innovative system of wristbands with sensors and gyroscopes that record the traffic of doctors, nurses, clerks, orderlies and even cafeteria staff to ensure that they wash their hands when they have to be washed and there are no distractions. Now you would have to get these bracelets provided to company employees to wash after… well, you know.

The Donut Vault

It occurs to us that the Anglo-Saxon term close down may be the antonym of the also Anglo-Saxon term pop up. And we come up with this semantic antithesis to talk about a new concept of stores, that instead of emerging, pop up! When you least expect it and start selling, they close their doors when they sell and do not reopen until the next day.

Let's see. A bakery in Chicago (USA) that offers pastries and coffee, opens in the morning at eight thirty, and starts selling until the goods run out - which usually happens a couple of hours later. Instead of baking more buns and waiting for them to get hard and for someone to buy them in the afternoon after leaving work, skipping the bullfight not snacking between meals and putting carbohydrates and sugar in a not sibylline way in their agency, they lock the premises and say goodbye until the next day. It is still a paleolithic marketing strategy: playing with the concept of scarcity, but ...

Organic lingerie

One of the businesses that the Entrepreneurs Drafting company likes the most is EcoAlf, a sustainable clothing brand made from plastic, tires, coffee scraps and even fishing nets that already sells in 12 countries and has a wholesale distribution model. and that it has a reasonably affordable line and a higher-end one. This company made us believe, again, in organic manufacturing. So, how could Organic Lingerie http://organic-lingerie.com/en/, a French fashion brand, not attract our attention now, offering exactly the same, but with lingerie?

You decide when is happy hour

The proposal of Happy Any Hour, a nice app, is to update the traditional figure of public relations that attracted and, they tell us (because the last time those responsible for this section came out, it was to have a couple of San Francisco at Pasapoga on the riverbank left of Madrid's Gran Vía and were picked up before 12 o'clock) continue to attract customers to all kinds of bars and nightclubs. Now seriously: this tool allows you to select a place and if you bring more than one friend, take advantage of the happy hour concept for 60 minutes whenever you decide. The business gets a commission for bringing traffic to the premises. It is a cross between a loyalty tool, local offers and coupons.

SOURCE: emprendedores.es