The Weirdest Million Dollar Ideas Online

What does it take to become a millionaire?

The funny thing is; sometimes in life, you don’t have to be clever to be rich. Throughout history, the biggest brains, inventors and entrepreneurs lived as paupers. While the simplest of folkes struck it rich with ideas a 5 year-old could have come up with. I guess that’s what they call “dumb luck”.

Here are the 10 weirdest million dollar ideas:

1. Ashleymadison.com: A dating website for people to have an affair

What does it take to become a millionaire?

The funny thing is; sometimes in life, you don’t have to be clever to be rich. Throughout history, the biggest brains, inventors and entrepreneurs lived as paupers. While the simplest of folkes struck it rich with ideas a 5 year-old could have come up with. I guess that’s what they call “dumb luck”.

Here are the 10 weirdest million dollar ideas:

1. Ashleymadison.com: A dating website for people to have an affair

The site’s slogan: “Life is short. Have an affair”. It’s founder is a former attorney Noel Biderman, who is interestingly a happily married man. Cheating is wrong, but the numbers speak volumes; with 3.2 million members – something must be right.

2. Pooper-Scooper.com: (What it says)

Matthew Osborn never knew that this business would one day make him a millionaire. Broke and desperate to make some money, Matthew realized there were about 100,000 dogs within 15 miles of his home and there was much dirty work to be done. The service was an overnight sensation and the rest is history. 

3. SuperJam: My grandmother’s original recipe jam

Fourteen year-old Fraser Doherty making jams from his grandmother’s recipes in his parents’ Scotland kitchen. By the age of 16, he left school to work on his jam business SuperJam full-time. SuperJam sells around 500,000 jars a year, which currently has around 10 percent of UK jam market. Doherty’s stake is now worth $1 to 2 million.

4. Doggles: Goggles for Dogs

Every pet needs cool eyewear right? Sounds like a silly idea but the Doggles have taken the world by storm and received so much media attention, the company has expanded into a wider range of pet accessories.

5. LuckyBreak: Plastic Wishbones

Do you remember fighting over the wishbone after a Thanksgiving? Now everyone can make a wish, whenever they please. Ken Ahroni makes synthetic wishbones with the sound and feel of real dried turkey wishbones. The company makes 30,000 wishbones a day, selling custom-designed, imprinted units for personal, corporate and promotional use. Their sales are over $2.5 Million per year.

6. Wuvit: Microwaveable Pillows

Kim Levine realized that if she put some corn in cloth, sewed it together and then put it in the microwave; a warm relaxing pillow would be created. Starting off in her small town, she realized her idea had huge potential when parents started calling her in the middle of the night asking for another soothing pillow because their kids could not sleep without it. Now her products retail at Saks Department Store and she’s a millionaire.

7. The Million Dollar Homepage: $1 per pixel

In 2005, a 21-year-old student Alex Tew launched The Million Dollar Homepage, selling pixels of a 1000×1000 grid for $1 each. The unique project attracted enormous amounts of press coverage, and eventually earned $1,037,100 in a matter of months – the final slot on the page went for $38,100.

8. The Excused Absence Network: Sick Leave Excuses

For just $25, you can have an excuse letter which appears to come from a professional doctor or hospital – and even fake jury summons and authentic-looking funeral service program with poems and pallbearers. The founder started the business for $300 and currently runs it off a laptop in a small Oklahoma town. The site gets about 15,000 hits a month.

9. LaserMonks.com: Discount printer cartridges and other office supplies from your friendly neighbourhood monk

Father Bernard McCoy is CEO of LaserMonks.com came up with the idea when one day when his printer ran out of ink. He shopped around for a new ink cartridge but couldn’t find one that was reasonably priced.In the beginning LaserMonks.com consisted of a few monks sitting around with black powder and empty plastic cartridges, filling a few orders a day. Today the monks say they have served more than 50,000 customers, and they process 200 to 300 daily orders for a broad range of school and office supplies.

10. WhateverLife: MySpace Layouts

A teenage girl who had a flair for the creative set up a site called WhateverLife to offer layouts for MySpace and free tutorials. Her numbers are now impressive. The 17 year- old high school dropout has made more than $1 million. She earns as much as $70K a month, and owns a website that attracts more than 7 million monthly visitors and 60 million page views.

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