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This idea may be something for at least all european countries and US + Canada.
This concept derives from a specific situation i experienced some weeks ago:

I’d to do some excel-calculations for my econometric estimates and had a tough deadline
the next morging. The calculations where pretty easy but time-intensive and time was ticking by.
And my biggest wish was to send my excel-files somebody who can do these calculations over night.

Yeah, and that’s why i thought of an agency i can call, describe the tasks to a manager, send the files,
and the next morging i get my results on time.

Now this is a quite brief description, but if you advance the idea then you could predict the possibilities included.
The company should be set up like an temporary employment company in a country with almost 12 hour time shift to the country for which you want to work. Some professional agents are resident in the country where you canvass for customers.

The agents are to collect the tasks to execute for the next day, discuss details of the jobs with the clients, validate the feasability and finally estimate the number and profession of worker needed. Then they receive the data from the client and hand them on to the staff in the other country. Let’s take the example of India.
In India – when it is late in the evening here, it is early morning there – the workforce receives its tasks to do, and if needed, additional staff can be recruited from a pool of professionals registered with the temporary employment company.

The target group and the target market are a bit delicate, but when examined more closely should not be too much of concern.
I think freelancers and executives from bigger companies with decision rights for at least smaller budgets and expenses should be targeted. The costs for one task should not exceed the costs of one professional for one day in the home country. So in europe it should not exceed the 300-500 € per man-day margin.
So the tasks executable are not allowed to be to complicate, which is also in consequence of the limited time and depiction possibilities of the sales channels the agents will use. I can’t image a developer to explain the next development stage of an app to the agent in adequate form and clarity over phone or email in, let’s say half an hour, so that the developer is fully satisfied the next morging. So i more think of sophisticated repetitive tasks, like the excel-cals from above, making charts for a presentation, adding images to websites, translating small language parts into multiple other languages, generating pdfs, etc.

So, to start all this, it is essential to find both a professional company in europe/us and india or vietnam or somewhere else and to start talking. Maybe you have a good friend from those countries, so just go for it.

Hope, somebody likes this idea. And if you have further questions or comments, feel free to post…

cheers! yours mip…

Yes, I am. Not actually now, but sometimes when i watch tv or when I’m coming home and turn on the telly.
You know it always starts like that:

You somehow zapp through the channels without any doubt what you’d like to see. And then suddenly somebody
in a cooking show makes this little hidden feeling in your stomach grow.
And your eyes focus on the incredible actions the cook is performing, and you already see the beautiful tasty result
in front of you, ready for the first bite.

Ok, your brain interrupts and throws comments at you like: “you won’t get the same stuff at a restaurant near you”
or: “those fools at the next bar just put something deep frozen into the deep fryer and pretend it to be the same as on tv”.
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your conclusion: it won’t work…

but since your fingers are not all thumbs, you decide to try it on your own.
You search, rummage around, but 90% of the ingredients are missing.

Ah, there you get the point!

Jamie Oliver (or who you ever fond of) tells you to call something like “0800-get your cooking package”
and half an hour later you come back from the next store with your cooking package and finally
your pathetic tummy is relieved.

How about that? Cooperation between supermarket chain and TV Cook.
First he shows you how to do it, generates enough appetite and demand.
Second you speak with the callcenter of the chain, just saying your address and the number of persons to be cooked for
and half an hour later you can pick up your cooking set with all ingredients at the next outlet?

I’d love it!

Happy cooking, yours, mip

Ok, you’ll know that half the planet had a shock after noticing that adobe and macromedia gonna merge.
And a hell of a lot was written about advantages and disadvantages and which products they gonna skip, and why the hack they wonna merge, etc.

But to take advantage of all the capabilities of the resulting company, i just thought, how about bringing together our beloved
illustrator, the odd fireworks, the worldclass flash and maybe the stunted director and join forces to develope an app for designing
os guis.
flash or something similar shall be trancformed into a gui core of the os, which could be plattform independent, and microsoft, apple & co would pay a serious amount of money for that. since they all speek of the next generation os as having vector-based os to allow
greater screenresolutions and scaleability, they might be quite interested in such a product.
the next benefit would be that flash in websites would run natively on every os and hopefully much faster!
and the developer app – either included in products like visual studio or not – would be the other product to attract customers.
And there would be no more problems regarding the gui while transfering my program to another os, yeehaa!

I just get caught be the dream of starting some illustrator-like app, designing my interfaces, moving to visual studio and applying my code and not messing around with dull-looking buttons and listboxes from some strange linux gui or windows xp.
Or sending my gui design the next software company like a pdf or ai file and they have no problem incorporating it into their new app.

how about that?
or am I a just a mentally retarded ape and you ceo’s of apple, adobe and microsoft are already playing with your next-gen. os 3d super-wooper-designed os, where buttons and windows are beautiful as the interior of aston martin db9?

yours, mip