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In its competition, 'One Minute Pitch', it reveals some of the practical or quirky ideas the finalists have dreamt up to win a prize of £100,000.
They include:
- an online employment agency for over-55s who have specialist or business skills and could offer short-term help to employers;
a website to help drivers find parking spaces;
- Japanese-style capsule hotels, in airports so travellers can rest during stopovers;
- an internet business, which would deliver nutritious packed lunches to children at school;
- a 24-hour helpline manned by taxi drivers that will provide directions to people who are lost in London or stuck in traffic;
- a fitness machine that goes under a desk so that people could exercise while they were at work.
- a website called Scratchmyback.com where people could swap their talents or skills.
Full article: Top 100 ideas for starting a new business - Sunday Times.
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