Idea, and actually doing something about it.

Well, The computer buisiness is up and running. but we will see how that goes. It has potential but I think will take awhile to build up the market.

Alteratively, My friend Jarrod and I have come up with another idea, one that I think has vastly more potential that Larakin Systems. We have been working on a buisness plan for nearly a week, and I spent most of yesterday writing up a market alaysis for it.

Here it is: Full service Mountain Bike Guiding, Lessons, Rental, Shuttles to one way trails in the area. Durango is a largly tourism based economy and the only area left is not overwheled with 6 or 7 guiding compainies (like Rafting, Hunting, Fishing, Snowmobiling, Jeep tours, and so on) is Mountain biking. I spent 5 Summers as a guide in Park City, Jarrod has a degree in Resort Managment, and both of us are very active Mountain bikers in the area and know most is not all of the reported "2000 Miles of pristine singletrack" in the area.

I dont want to say much more untill we get more of the details worked out, but it looks pretty good at the moment.

Ill keep you updated.

I Know I havent updated much...

But there really isnt much to tell these days. Im trying to find a job, Trying to survive in the meantime. Trying to come up with the genius idea that will allow me to work for myself and still stay here in Durango. None of which is going terribly well. I did get Buisness Cards made for Larakin Systems, I am going to make fliers and pass them out the all the small buisnesses in town. Ive filed for unemployment, I havent heard anything from the last 5 jobs Ive applied for.

Thats really about it. Ill post more as info comes along.

PS, This site may move to http://www.Larakinsystems.com/Blog in the near future as I need the main site for this buisness, but that take me spending the time to make the website.

What am I doing?

I dont know.

I havent posted much because I have been sitting here wondering what the hell I am going to do with my life.

I dont know.

I do have an Idea though. it has been floating around in my head for a few days. Sometimes I think it is the greatest Idea ever, and sometimes not so much. Anyway I decided to put my Idea on here and see what kind of reaction I get from a larger audience.

Here it is:

Larakin Systems: Technology Advisors (Or consultant, but that sounds to buisness like I think)

What I want to do is work with all the people out there that want to be using all of this modern technology, but arent quite sure how to take full advantage of it. How many people have you met that have thier new fancy digital camera but still take it to Walmart to get prints made and thats it? What is the point of having that camera now. I want to show you haw to take full advantage of all the featurs a digital camer can offer. Ill show you how to get the images on you computer in an easy way, how you share them with friends, how to fix them up the way you want, how to print the ones you want by yourself.

How many people bought a new MP3 player and dont know how to use it? Youve got 20GB of space on the thing but youve got one album you bought from iTunes on it? Ill show you how to rip all yur CD's, the formats to use and what so that down the road when/ if you get a new device it will all be compatable. How about your cell phone, you know it has a camera built in, but how do you get the pictures off the camera? Ill show you. What is a Text message and why am I paying $5.99 a month for it because the salesman said I needed it? Your new $5000 HDTV, how do you know you are using it to full potential? Something like 60% of HDTVs are not running in HD. What about that BestBuy tech that installed your TV but used a composite cable to hook it up? What the hell is a composite cable and why is that wrong? Ill tell you, Ill make sure you are taking full advantage of your stuff.

If its digital I can do it.

What do you think? Suggestions, comments, what the hell are you thinking? Let me know.

Thanks

UPDATE: Litereally as I was posting this I opened another Tab in Firefox to digg.com this was the first story on the fron page Complexity causes 50% of product returns