Dumb Ideas That Led To Million Dollar Businesses


Antenna Balls: The idea of Antenna Balls rolled out in 1960s when Union Gas started using spray painted orange balls with blue ‘76’ image on it, to promote awareness about the Union 76 Gas Station. Later Disney got struck with this idea and started producing Mickey Mouse antenna balls and now it has more than 100 different antenna toppers. These small soft differently-shaped balls were also used to protect car antennas from rain and from getting broken by dashing with garage walls. Apart from these it also popularly used by children atop their pencils and it does make homework more fun work.

Icanhascheeseburger.com: Cats are cute and if you add a bit of cute slogans along with it, it proves to be a perfect combination with more adorability factor to fascination people. In 2007, this is how Erica Nakagawi and Kari Unebeasami made a site that garnered 10 million views a month and later sold it to a group of investors for $2 million. Currently the website is hugely famous and the memes are seen trolling the social networking sites for comments and remarks, and has more than 100 million views per month. This was sure a catwalk for the founders to get famous and earn big bucks.

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