Now we will see 10 of the most amazing ideas that have brought more than one million, and how the people who invented them, made their ideas a reality.
These glasses are de Lully Roni plan, which this great idea came during a walk in the park for dogs in 1997. Her Border Collie Midnight interfered bright daylight, and the dog could not catch a frisbee properly. "I had on my sunglasses, and I thought, well why do dogs they do not," said Roni.
And de Lully began tinkering your dog sunglasses. At first she tried to adapt ordinary glasses with a variety of straps. Then she made the money and undermining the new model, which accurately fit the dog's face. Thus were born goggles for dogs. Now the dogs can be put out of their cars without fear, because glasses not only protect against harmful UV-rays, but also from the dust and dirt.
The company Di Lillo, MidKnight Creations, with annual revenues of approximately $ 3 million now also produces backpacks, jackets for swimming and toys for cats.
Gauri Nanda loved and liked to sleep in the morning to press the end call on the alarm clock ... many times. And when it's time to check the project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, to mind immediately went to her runaway alarm clock. Equipped with two wheels, after pressing the end call, alarm clock drives off the bedside table and rolls on the floor, forcing the owner Sonya get out of bed.
Once Nanda graduated, she found its prototype, the family took the money and started a large scale to sell new alarms. At this point, runaway alarm clock is sold in thousands of stores in more than 45 countries around the world and brought its inventor for about $ 10 million. There is also a version Tocky, it does not have wheels for movement using an internal torque.
3.Billy Bob Teeth (Billy Bob Teeth)
3These dentures were designed to turn any man into "lout." John White first saw them at a football match in 1994. The man with the "terrible teeth" saying "some stuff," says White. It turned out that it was his friend Rich Bailey, and his teeth were not real - he made them in the dental school. White saw the opportunity and asked Bailey to make it complete.
While White was living in a shack behind the house parents and worked at odd jobs to pay their debts. Soon, White and Bailey started selling retail Billy Bob teeth, but after a couple of years, Bailey has left the company to pursue a career as a dentist.
The company now produces White sandals, hats and other things Billy Bob. He also moved to a new home thanks to more than 50 million profit from the company for the time of its existence.
If during the meal, and you are tired to use a knife and fork, the Knork can give you something interesting ... a fork and knife in the same utensils.
This idea came to Mike Miller back in the eighth grade, when he tried to eat pizza with a fork. While he was vainly trying to break a pizza, he noticed how easily it cuts worker with a special knife. And then he thought that the fork with the knife on one edge of the handle just as well.
But Miller was not even thinking to develop their idea before they entered college in 2001. At his grandfather, he took $ 10,000, has created his own company and developed a prototype with the help of her mother's forks and a grinding wheel in the garage.
A few years later gushed Knork products on the shelves of shops and online catalogs. Now the company Knork develops and moves to full production. In 2011 sales amounted to about Knork Flatware $ 2 million.
SENDaBALL balls can be seen as one of the types of cards. It all started when Michelle saw a bunch of cabbage Sipolt balls at the store, wrote to them, "Give the ball to your child," pasted stamp and sent to his girlfriend.
In the next few years, cabbage, and her sister Melissa Sipolt Morokov balls sent to friends on different occasions. Once in the queue at the post office one man asked Michelle to send him and a ball. And here's sister saw an opportunity. In 2003 they created a website and opened a shop in his garage, where he is now. Currently, the total profit from the sale of beads SENDaBALL was $ 1 million.
Todd Greene racked my brains for a long time and came up with HeadBlade. Once in his 20 years of his hair began to fall, he decided to shave his head. And then he realized that for this class must be a special razor. "If I could just take a blade in his hand, it would be much easier to shave," says Todd.
And then, in 1998 he designed a prototype that is easy to lay in his hand, and found the man who helped him to improve it. Green took all his money borrowed from family and friends, and then founded the company. He found a manufacturer, made a website, learned of e-commerce and marketing.
Everything went even better when Time magazine named the Green's invention of one of the best in 2000. HeadBlade is now sold in thousands of 15-20 stores across America and brings an annual income of 7-10 million dollars.
In America, Thanksgiving Day has a tradition of breaking the thymus from the bone eaten turkey, who will be a greater slice of the wish will come true. But for all the seed will not save enough, because the turkey is also not cheap, but only one bone. Plastic thymus bones may seem too simple idea, but this idea has brought millions. Ken Aaron came to the idea during a dinner for the Day of Thanksgiving in 1999. He realized that the table has only one bone, and it can dry out before all those who decide to break it. He decided that the artificial bone and resolve family disputes will all make a wish on Thanksgiving Day. He did some research and found a "secret formula" which allows the artificial bone to break down as the real thing.
By 2004, the sale was conducted only 10 stores, now thymus seeds are sold in more than 800 stores across America and brought four million dollars in profits since its inception.
Uglydoll monsters might look like and not very much, but it brought a good profit - more than $ 100 million since their appearance on store shelves.
Uglydoll is not only a success story, but also a love story. It all began in 1996 when San-Min Kim and David Horvath met at the School of Art and Design Parsons. Then, when Kim went to Korea, they had to leave for a few years, but they continued to communicate, leading an active correspondence. In one such letter, David drew a little orange monsters named Wage. Kim in return sent him a gift already sewn his own toy Wage. When Horvath took the toy in the Asian pop art store in Los Angeles, the owner asked him to bring more. The new dolls that Kim sewed by hand for months, sold out in one day.
In 2002, Kim and Horvath, not only opened his own company Pretty Ugly, but also married.
In 1986, David Marks worked in the golf club in Greenwich, Conn., and fought with 600 Canadian geese that lived in the area. What would he not tried to chase them, nothing worked. Until that moment, he decided to use a Border Collie. He bought a dog, train it, and soon the geese were gone. News quickly dispersed throughout the area and now the other golf clubs asking him for help. Marx decided to create a goose, and the police began to deliver the golf course from the pesky geese.
In the end, Marx retired from his job to fully concentrate on new business. The company grew and is now enshrined in its 11 areas across the country. Under the command of David is now 38 dogs, and the company gives $ 2.8 million per year.
"Who would have thought that I would make millions, playing with the dogs," says Marx.
In this card game party is not at the table: it is designed to bring players into shape. The deck contains 50 exercises that do not require fitness equipment. These maps are the brainchild of Phil Black, who came to this idea after the party at cards in college turned into a competition for push-ups.
Black did not immediately set up his own company. He first served the fur seals in the Navy and then graduated from business school. After Phil finished it, he went to the office work for Goldman Sachs, but resigned after six months. He used his savings and training to create a seal card FitDeck. Now there are 37 different decks.
Black said that to date has sold "hundreds of thousands of decks," and earned "a few million dollars."
