My Business Idea
My Business Idea
[Cueball is sitting at his desk, pointing at his laptop.] Cueball: Dude! I had this idea like five years ago, and some company just got rich doing it! - I want my cut.
[Cueball starts typing.] Person off-screen: That's not how it works. Cueball: Sure it is. I'm applying for my share now. Person: Wait, what?
[A browser window with the title 'Department of Ideas'. It has a series of text boxes.] Date you had the idea: Like five years ago. Proof you had it: I told my friend Mike - you can ask him! I was all "you know what would make a great business idea?" and he was all... Their profit so far: $20,000,000 Share you deserve (be fair!): [Drop-down.] 25% 30% 35% Mailing address: 137 Ash Tree Ln
[Cueball still at the laptop, above him is a SUBMIT button, and it shows a pointing hand cursor.] CLICK
[Last panel set slightly lower than the rest.] [Cueball is in front of an open box full of cash, with cash in his hand. A FedEx delivery guy is on the other side of the box with his PDA and pen.]
Many people have shared Cueball 's experience of seeing someone else make a profit from an idea that they themselves had. This comic plays with the thought of what would happen if intellectual property thinking was taken to an extreme, and if companies or people were keener on "setting things right" than money. The title text is an extension of the comic with increasingly extreme thinking.
In reality, having a great idea alone, of course, does not create a profitable business; there must generally be an enormous amount of effort put in to create a business from scratch, popularize it, and keep it standing. Having done none of this, Cueball would probably not deserve close to the "30% cut" he claims even if intellectual property did work the way it is presented here.
This comic originally was shared with the name 1721: Business Idea , but then this comic was renamed. There were no other relations between the ideas for the two comics, see the trivia section below.
[Cueball is sitting at his desk, pointing at his laptop.] Cueball: Dude! I had this idea like five years ago, and some company just got rich doing it! - I want my cut.
[Cueball starts typing.] Person off-screen: That's not how it works. Cueball: Sure it is. I'm applying for my share now. Person: Wait, what?
[A browser window with the title 'Department of Ideas'. It has a series of text boxes.] Date you had the idea: Like five years ago. Proof you had it: I told my friend Mike - you can ask him! I was all "you know what would make a great business idea?" and he was all... Their profit so far: $20,000,000 Share you deserve (be fair!): [Drop-down.] 25% 30% 35% Mailing address: 137 Ash Tree Ln
[Cueball still at the laptop, above him is a SUBMIT button, and it shows a pointing hand cursor.] CLICK
[Last panel set slightly lower than the rest.] [Cueball is in front of an open box full of cash, with cash in his hand. A FedEx delivery guy is on the other side of the box with his PDA and pen.]