I've been thinking about starting a small business lately, but I'm looking for some ideas. Any thoughts?
Yes! You could use design thinking to allow creative strategies to be developed for your new business! 
design thinking? I've never heard of that, perhaps I'll look into it. As far as creativity I'm thinking about an online t shirt company.
Ah so you'd be running something along the lines of a design management. You provide designs, strategies, and supply chain techniques! So you'd be consulting on designs and print t-shirts for people who inquire your company!
Sounds like a lot more work than I first imagined, but I guess I need to get started if I want to start my business. 
It is a lot work when you're being a supply chain for customized shirts for customers!
I hope I sell enough shirts to be considered a supply chain, that sounds really official.
Supply-chain management
In commerce, supply-chain management (SCM), the management of the flow of goods and services, involves the movement and storage of raw materials, of work-in-process inventory, and of finished goods from point of origin to point of consumption. Interconnected, interrelated or interlinked networks, channels and node businesses combine in the provision of products and services required by end customers in a supply chain. Supply-chain management has been defined as the "design, planning, execution,
Even with the Direct3D side of things, where I know I have a long history of people thinking I'm antagonistic against it. Microsoft has done a very, very good job of sensibly evolving it at each step—they're not worried about breaking backwards compatibility—and it's a pretty clean API. I especially like the work I'm doing on the 360, and it's probably the best graphics API as far as a sensibly designed thing that I've worked with."
Some design features of Direct3D have remained