Business ideas come from satisfying a need
Businesses often spring up to satisfy a need. Mum’s theatre school needed an application to manage the classes, registers, pupils and invoicing and I needed a project for my A Level computing coursework. I ended up creating a theatre school database and sold it to mum and her business partner. Mum used it for more than 10 years until she retired. The new owners of the school are still using the program.
I contemplated turning the idea into a business which required packaging the application up as a stand alone product and selling it online to other dance schools. Later on I would explore this idea further, however, a new adventure soon took over my life, university.
(Written January 1st 2009. Republished from Tim's personal blog on startups & small businesses)
