Shiny Designy
Business Ideas
Business + Design
Victor Lombardi

Naked & Angry
Social
media
+
interior
design
trend

Moo
Social media
+
Print design
(mashup)

Slideshare
The YouTube of
presentations

Jorg and Olif
Adored Dutch bikes
customized for
North American
customers

Start SOMA
Gallery selling art for
mobile phones

Logos-R-Us
Turn custom,
expensive work into
an affordable
commodity

Pizza Patrón
Same product,
new niche

Timbuk2
Same product,
less niche

Bear Naked
Same product,
less niche
via
sexy brand identity

Poketo
Art for people who
can’t afford art
(disruption)

Etsy
A craft market
the size of
the Internet
(long tail)

Duracoat
Repurposed
invention for a niche

Blue Bottle
Quality
to the hilt

Glow by JLo
Tired category
+
celebrity

Unto This Last
Mass customization
+
affordable prices

Beetle Art
Customization
without
commitment

More Inspiration
Consumed
http://query.nytimes.com/search/query?ppds=bylL&v1=ROB%20WALKER
Springwise
http://www.springwise.com/
Social Trends
http://www.ncpa.org/pd/social/social1.html
http://pewresearch.org/
Web 2.0
http://www.sacredcowdung.com/archives/2006/03/all_things_web.html