The Entrepreneurial Spirit

Hey! There you are. How's traffic out there in cyberland? Help yourself to a steaming hot mug of coffee and a virtual treat. Say...you have to admire the entrepreneurial spirit don't'cha? Here are three examples. Remember...it's not what you like. It's what the public wants to buy or is in fashion.

 1. Extract of cockroach is a delicacy among some Chinese, believed able to miraculously reduce inflammation, defy aging and cure tuberculosis, cancer and cirrhosis. 

Quartz reported in August that Yunnan province is a Silicon Valley-type business center, where pulverized roaches can sell for the equivalent of about $89 a pound, and five pharmaceutical companies have contracts with ranches that have formed the Sichuan Treasure Cockroach Farming Cooperative. 

In August, a start-up farm in Jiangsu province was, police suspect, vandalized, allowing at least a million cockroaches being prepared for market to flee to adjacent neighborhoods. Oops!

2.Lucy Sun, a Columbia University economics major, began seeking work as a $30-an-hour "book therapist," to help readers find the "right" book to read or give as a gift, with attention to clients' "specific situations." 

3. In Brooklyn's Greenpoint neighborhood in September, the stylish Eat Restaurant began reserving certain nights' meals to be experienced in total silence. On opening night, a Wall Street Journal reporter noted one throat-clearing and a muffled sneeze, but barely any other human sound. Some diners were won over; another said it felt like "being 50 and married." 

Now there are some intriguing ideas for you, eh! I'm still working on a chicken that lays bacon! I'll keep you posted on that one!

See ya, eh!

Bob