Saturday, May 9, 2009

DAY NINE (early) - 21 to go.

The film projects are mostly on hiatus looking for funding, so I've been researching, and doing feasibility of other entrepreneurial ventures. The Twitter based on-line dating site idea is one I don't think would go anywhere. The home/apt rental website review idea is still in-progress.

Everytime I hear discussions about how badly GM and Ford are doing, it makes me crazy. If I could put together the right people, with the right money, we'd buy Saturn on the auction block, re-open the Tennessee factory, and build cars on-demand from website orders. We'd work with BYD in China to do our hybrid, and all-electric drive trains, and offer three of each vehicle: Gas, Hybrid, and EV. You'd pick the drivetrain, add the body, interior, and as you did so, stats on 'your car' would be built on-screen (MPG, weight, range, etc). We'd build some of each car type, and ship to dealerships, those cars would go to customers until their "custom car" could be delivered.

Inventory would be a concern, sure... but we'd take the smarts we've developed in internet software companies, and apply the 'bit' ideas to 'bolts' in cars. Perhaps we'd partner with Amazon... hmmm...

I'll have to think it through on the drive to Everett this afternoon - Razzal's monthly singles mixer 4pm onward... see ya there!

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