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DaleRDS
04-06-2012
Originally Posted by Starfish.r.cool:
“I think Nick's idea was very good, I would use it. Having been a cookery student it would've made life a whole lot easier to just click one button and not have to worry about getting my ingredients ready the night before. The idea needs some tweaks but I think it was the most interesting out of the four and Nick handled himself very well in the interviews when asked some (in my opinion) very unfair questions.”

That was my favourite. I mentioned this on the live thread but nothing really gets seen on those. It needs to be subtly more complicated than simply clicking a recipe and have it order all the ingredients in one click. It needs to combine quantities across recipes; so if one recipe calls for 2 eggs, and another 3; it just adds 1 box of 6 eggs to the order; not 2 boxes of 6 eggs.

But more importantly, there are lots of ingredients in recipes that are "store cupboard staples" anyway; you don't want it ordering you a bottle of vegetable oil every time you click to buy a recipe that need 1 tablespoon of vegetable oil! Also needs to handle yield factoring which may or may not be entirely straight forward...
Toggler
04-06-2012
I thought most of the business ideas were cr*p and was actually shocked. The glowing reference for Tom where he blushed with pleasure and was asked 'who do you think said that?' and he was trying to think of a client, only to be told it was his father ...

Hope Ricky is successful as I recruit for those type of roles and decent candidates are rather like hens' teeth ......
alan_m
04-06-2012
Originally Posted by Inkblot:
“Right idea, wrong time. Ten or more years ago it would have been seen as the future of direct selling.”

And the result - 10 million people officially registering that they don't want such calls.
Inkblot
04-06-2012
Originally Posted by alan_m:
“And the result - 10 million people officially registering that they don't want such calls.”

Yes - it couldn't work now.
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