Regardless, I think they are both great ideas that could be very successful. However, I don’t personally know which idea I should work on. Here’s a few of my personal thoughts on the subject.

Spoil My Spouse

I think this ideas has a great potential and I think that it fits the Cambrian House crowdsourcing model perfectly. In fact, to make Spoil My Spouse successful, I think there absolutely has to be a crowd sourced component to create and rank a list of very unique ideas. I also love Spoil My Spouse because it’s a website that I would love to have. It matches my interests and skills quite well. If I had to, I could code the entire website myself. I would need some help from a graphic designer, but the website is absolutely within my limited coding skill set. Marketing spoil my spouse is something I would personally find quite interesting. I wish that Cambrian House would start setting up my marketing mob idea. That would be a great asset to Spoil My Spouse. Spoil My Spouse has garnered quite an interest in the Cambrian House forums. I think it’s a simple idea that people can understand and use.

Jumble Lunch

Jumble Lunch is an idea that is absolutely needed and has a great corporate application. Something that scares me about working on Jumble Lunch is that it absolutely requires a base of professionals for the website to work. Building this type of database isn’t part of my skill set. Unless Jumble Lunch hits a critical mass of professionals, it is doomed for failure. I think this is a pretty major barrier to entry that will have to be overcome. I don’t think I’m the person that has the skills to bridge the divide. The good part is that Cambrian House already is a crowd of business professionals that could immediately populate the database. If this population can be leveraged to add themselves and their own network of business contact, then Jumble Lunch could be well on its way to being a complementary product to LinkedIn.

Of course, you all know that I’m a little ADHD when it comes to cambrian house. I’m currently fairly involved in the wish granting website, Robin Hood Fund. I also have a sincere interest in helping make Prezzle - Send Online Gifts into what it should have become. I could possibly work some on Prezzle and Spoil My Spouse. They could really complement each other. However, if I decide to be the project manager of Spoil My Spouse or Jumble Lunch, then I would have to have almost tunnel vision on those projects. It would only be fair to the other people working on those projects.

I don’t have to make that decision now, but I thought I’d throw my ideas out there. It also helps me to put a few of my thoughts on paper. What would you do if you were in my position?

I think I should have probably called the idea Never Eat Alone. That is where the inspiration for the idea came from. The basic concept is that as a business person you should never eat alone, but should always go with someone to lunch where you can interact and create a network of business associates.

I know it has been working well for me lately. A while back I asked one of the angel investors that I met if he wanted to go to lunch. Well, from that I may have found a partner to help me with my high school sports (probably football) fundraising idea. Eating lunch with him was essential to me having the opportunities that I have available to me now.

Hopefully you all understand the importance of networking and will vote for my idea It’s Just Lunch for Networking.

Should be an interesting battle of ideas. The third round of Idea Warz ends October 24th. That means you only have 5 days to get out there and vote to Spoil Your Spouse. Husbands, you know that you’d love to be spoiled by your wife. Wives, you know you’d love to be spoiled by your husband. Husbands, you better want to make your wife happy. Wives, you know you want to make your husband happy. It’s about husband and wife all spoiling each other. One big love pit of spoiling. Nice!!

In the other third round idea warz matchup we have the 2 titans Our Virtual Business Units vs. Film Funder. I’m torn on these 2. Any thoughts on why I should vote either way?

In a moment of sweet transparency, I’m going to post the email that I got from JR(did you know his real name is Jonathan Rasmusson?) today talking about the Final Four of Idea Warz. Of course my favorite part of the article is when JR says that they are already doing Market Test research on the final four ideas. I’d be happy to hear any feedback on how to make Spoil My Spouse take off.

Hiya techguy,

Can you believe we are already down to the final four?

Spoil My Spouse has made the quarter finals!

That’s right you’re in RD3 of the Golden Hammer Tournament – well done mate.

Don’t think this next round is going to be easy through. You are up against a real titan : Kids Chat Watchdog.

So get a good nights sleep, eat your Wheaties, and practice those positive affirmations:

“Your good enough, your smart enough, and gosh darn it, people like your idea.”

RND3 voting ends October 24th midnight so make sure you get the word out.

Oh ya one more thing, we are already doing Market Test research on the final four ideas.

So don’t be surprised if someone from Cambrian House contacts you to discuss your idea further.

Cheers – JR

Spoil My Spouse
Online Secretary
Our Virtual Business Units
Online Brainstorming
Programming for Kids
Kids Chat Watchdog
Film Funder
Write a Movie - Open Scripts Repository

I’m not going to link to all of them, but if you check out the latest version of Cambrian House Idea Warz then you’ll be able to view all the matchups and vote on them.

It looks like JR has a good sense of humor. From bottom to top…the 2 movie ideas are matched up, the 2 children ideas are matched up, the 2 Cambrian House tools are matched up and then Spoil My Spouse and Online Secretary are going at it (I’m not sure if JR thought that an online secretary could be your future spouse or why that matchup happened).

Should be some interesting battles. Some of the matchups make for some really hard votes. Of course Spoil My Spouse is an easy vote for me since it’s my idea. Plus, I still think that my idea is the most simple idea out there that matches the Cambrian House model of development perfectly. I think it also has a quick, easy and visible revenue stream much like Cambrian House has done with Prezzle.

We’ll see what happens. Let’s hope that all the men out there want to spoil their wives or that all the women out there want to spoil their husband.

That’s right techguy,

Your idea Spoil My Spouse has been selected for the very first IdeaWarz
Tournament - congratulations!

It’s been a long time coming, but next week we are going to begin the first
round of our new tournament format.

How it works

Every month 16 of the top community ideas are selected to compete in the
upcoming tournament. Each week, ideas are paired off to battle one another
with the winner advancing, and the loser dropping out. After four weeks, the
top idea will emerge and is declared the tournament winner.

What’s in it for the winner?

Besides the obvious fame and glory and would be bestowed upon winning the
very first IdeaWarz Tournament, winners will be forever immortalized in the
Hall of Champions on the as well earning their idea the right to a Cambrian
House Market Test.

Exciting? You better believe it.

Next steps

You have this week to prepare your idea for battle. Check your title. Double
check your description and inspiration to make sure they are as compelling
as possible. The upcoming version of IdeaForge will make this easier in the
future but for now you will have to rely on your own wit and cunning.

Good luck!

This is just the beginning of many changes coming over the month. You are a
pioneer forging the way with us and your feedback throughout the process
will be appreciated. Please send all feedback, bugs, suggestions to myself.

The honor is all yours. Best of luck in the tourney.

Your tournament host - JR

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Cambrian House

It’s my best idea so far so enjoy it (and vote for it).

More ideas and a whole lot more commentary coming soon!!