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Okay so you have an idea. Where do you go? Well here’s a couple interesting places:

1.  Submit Business Ideas – Basically you go and put up your idea, if they use it you have to stop creating it, but they’ll share 15% of the profits with you from your business adventure. Pretty sweet deal since ideas are a dime a dozen, but not too sure if they actually have ever brought a business to fruition.

2. Idea Bounty – They have businesses that come to them for ad campaigns and then the users send ideas/pics/videos and the best one wins. The last one for Castle Lager has an award for $4,000 so it’s worth your while if you’re creative and have some spare time.

3. Innocentive – Ridiculous, they pay $5,000 – $1,000,000 for ideas and they have a lot of projects on the go. If you’re a bio chemist with a brain fart this is the place to be. Amazing idea.

4. 99designs – 99designs hosts design contests for a couple hundred to a thousand or so. It’s less of a place to get paid for ideas as it is a place for graphic designers, but it’s cool and a great business model so I had to include it.

5. Mark Cubans Stimulus Plan – Mark Cuban started this section on his blog and it’s hilarious. Post your idea, he may choose you and if he does you have to follow his rules and he can pull funding anytime. Oh, and everyone see’s your idea. Amazing how many people have ideas out there, it’ll take you 6 hours to read through all of them there.

So remember, an idea is worth a dime, execution is worth a whole lot more. Create a biz you like, with a decent model and focus on good products and smart finance.

-Craig Sharkton