Plenty of companies sell log cabin kits. But Argos seems to be the first major retailer to market an attractive and affordable model that reportedly can be built in two days by just two people. read all »

Previous Lives: High school students
Big Break: Teenagers at the dawn of the social media era
Bottom Line: MyYearbook.com has, at times, grown faster than Facebook or MySpace
Potential Income: up to $300k per year or more

Frustrated by a lack of social media sites strictly for teens, these three siblings from suburban New Jersey hatched a plan around the family dinner table three years ago to put high school yearbooks online. Catherine, the youngest, was only 16 years old at the time. Yet she convinced her older brother Geoff, a 26-year-old Harvard grad, to put up $250,000 from his own fledgling online business — and myYearbook.com was born. read all »

Texas Hold ‘em exploded as a national sensation in 2003, the year that ESPN first broadcast the World Series of Poker. By now, countless teens and college students have been drawn into the game by the proliferation of Internet gambling sites — there are now 2,400 of them — and the allure of easy money. read all »

When Swiss dairy farmer Paul Wyler and his wife Helga, were unable to sell as much cheese as they produced each year, they hit upon a great idea. ‘Why not rent our cows?’

A rent-a-cow business was born and the Wylers, who run a 50-head farm in the Brienz area, managed to rent some of their cows to a few local restaurants. read all »

How’s this for another crazy idea? Would you buy a crumpled up piece of paper?

Well, whatever your opinion, this site sure is generating a ton of sales. The webmaster sells an ‘Origami Boulder’, which is actually a wadded bit of paper!

For just $ 3, he’ll crumple up a piecec of paper, call it an Origami Boulder, and email you with a brief description. He also offers you the choice of selecting a ‘deluxe’ kit. read all »

Leave it to 8-year-olds to come up a terrific business idea and invention…a remedy for a problem that most adults probably forgot even existed: the dreaded wedgie.

Jared and Justin Serovich were messing around one day, giving each other wedgies, when mom’s partner joked about the need for wedgie-proof underwear. Little twin lightbulbs must have gone off in the third-graders’ heads, because it wasn’t long before they unveiled the “Rip Away 1000.” read all »

My business is designing and laminating bookmarks for wedding favors, business promotions, nonprofit organizations, holidays and other special occasions or projects. I design them on my computer, depending on what the customer wants. Then I print and laminate them.

I came up with the idea of a bookmark business because it was a fun way to express my creativity and would require a low investment. read all »

By the time he was in college, Frank Warren says he’d already failed at more businesses than most people have attempted. But by the time he started the blog-based art project PostSecret he had also already succeeded, something he says was one of the keys to his blog’s success. read all »

1. Rent Out A Room

Of course if your earnings are over the taxable limit, you could be taxed on rent as an income. But hey, if your rent was over the taxable income, you probably wouldn’t have the need to make extra money in the first place. Make sure that the room you’re renting is comfortable, secure and well decorated.

Your home should also be conducive to accommodate someone comfortably, remember that what you’re offering is not just a room but a home to someone. Renting a room in your house is an easy way to making money, and if you pick the right person, (someone who works long hours, or travels a lot) you may hardly ever see them. read all »

Business Idea: YouTube Theater
Description: A place where you can watch all of your favorite videos in a theater setting with popcorn and all that good stuff
Start-Up Cost: $25k - $75k
Potential Income: $500k+ per year

YouTube epitomizes the American dream of a quick business start-up with instant success. It falls into the same category of the great “garage” start-ups as Microsoft, Google and eBay have so masterfully done. It’s huge success comes from the millions of people who use YouTube to share their favorite videos with friends and family online.

There is only one little thing that I think YouTube lacks…an off-line community. There isn’t a gathering spot where large groups of friends can come together to one central location to view and enjoy their favorite videos.

So, why not capture the exponential crowd online and reap the wonderful rewards of launching a YouTube video theater in your very own town? Oh, but it’s so much more than a theater too… Here’s how it works: read all »

Here’s Shoemoney’s number one on his list of “Top 10 Worst Ideas To Make Money.” I think this idea actually has some legs and could still work with a different spin. What do you think? Anyway, here it is:

I want to purchase a Gas Station and Give away Free Gas

The catch is like the gas would come out really slow and also you would be limited as to how much you could get per week. (Like max 50 gallons a week).

How do I make money ? EASY - I would setup paintball guns around the gas station with webcams that would let people from the internet take shots at the people filling up there cars with gas. read all »

I happened to be walking with my kids earlier this summer when we bumped into one of my son’s school mates. We stopped to chat for a bit in their back yard and I noticed that there were several lush spots of green lawn when most other yards in the neighborhood were patchy and brown from a recent dry spell.

The neighbor noted that they had moved their trampoline around periodically when they noticed how well the grass fared underneath. read all »

You’ve probably seen countless people wearing the colorful Crocs shoes in your city. Here is a very interesting footwear idea to pique your curiosity. read all »

Onitsuka Tiger, the Japanese sports brand, launched a sneaker vending machine on Carnaby Street today in London. Sneaker vending isn’t entirely new— read all »

Eric Nakagawa, a software developer in Hawaii, posted a single photo of a fat, smiling cat he found on the Internet, with the caption, “I can has cheezburger?” in January, 2007, at a web site he created. It was supposed to be a joke.

Soon after he posted a few more images in the same vein: cute cats with funny captions written in a silly, invented hybrid of Internet shorthand and baby-talk.

Then he turned the site into a blog, so that visitors could comment on the postings. What happened after that would have been hard for anyone to predict.

“We just thought, O.K., they’re funny,”Nakagawa says. “Suddenly we started getting hits. I was like, where are these coming from?” read all »