I really enjoyed reading Richard Branson's most recent book, Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur. A very inspiring book, especially if you want to do something to benefit others in the course of running your own businesses.
Create a monkey mini-series (using cartoon, real life footage, whatever) and use Youtube to generate publicity, word of mouth advertising and, possibly, a cult following for your business (or the mini-series anyway) :) Doesn't necessarily have to ...
How I determine if an idea has potential (step by step):
1. Does the idea excite me?
2. Having slept on the idea for x amount of time, does the idea still sound as good/get me excited?
3. Do my friends/peers say anything along the lines of "wow, ...
Personally I believe that the students would gain more from continuing to run their own business. This would also mean that subsequent year groups would start the process from the beginning, gaining experience that they wouldn't necessarily gain f...