The strange business idea worth millions of dollars

(AP) - At the hearing this idea that some people think that their authors are unrealistic or lighter ... like a joke. Yet major initiatives "like no other" that is brought back millions of dollars for those who dare to follow through.

1. Sunglasses for dogs ...

Sunglasses help dogs look stylish

This is the idea of ​​Roni Di Lullo 1997 in a walk in the dog park near the house. Her dog as MidKnight, are sensitive to light and quite difficult to catch items thrown all that. "Then I'm wearing sunglasses and suddenly thought, why not wear something for it." So that makes her self MidKnight glasses.

From the material available leverage, she always took the savings to investment to design the different glass types to suit every face of every dog. What brand is born Doggles dog can help car that looked comfortable early wind out of the hip, do not worry about the sun, ultraviolet rays or dirt. Every year the company achieved sales of Di Lullo is $ 3 million and is now expanding into the production of bags, jackets and toys for cats.

2. Alarm Clock that runs ...

Alarm Clock that runs the solution to sleeping ham nhungai

Gauri Nanda, the students of Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a desire to sleep every time the alarm clock, she was off to bed bell a few times. So when a product must be designed at the request of the teacher, the idea of ​​an alarm clock, "said running" appears. With 2 wheels mounted on, every time the alarm time that employers mute button, the alarm clock on the bedside cabinet from rolling down and run around the room, forcing those who desire to sleep awoke to the chase silence.

When Nanda graduated grab sample clock day and calls from family funding to start production. Since then Clocky brand was born. To date it has been in over 45 countries with thousands of distributors, bringing in nearly $ 10 million in revenue each year. The company also launched watches do not need self-rolling wheels that come with the kinetic energy.

3. Denture horror ...

Billy Bob dentures for people who like to play dominant

Being bothered by a super bad teeth in a football game at the 1994 White Jonah learn and know that this man is Rich Bailey and his teeth are fake, to be worn with the intent to pay attention. So you ask yourself Bailey do 1 set. Shortly after White and Bailey began trading dentures Billy Bob Teeth. Initially they could only make and sell each one, but the far, White has invested to expand production to the sandals, the revenue caps by up to $ 50 million from Billy Bob Teeth dentures.

4. Plate knife drive

Future products knife fork Knork

Many people feel bored because the table always have to use one set of knives and forks (fork) comes. So why not use a dish that can cut like knives? This idea has been simmering for Mike Miller in 8th grade when trying to eat his pizza with forks. Observe that the restaurant staff to easily cut the cake with bezel instruments, so Miller thought about producing plates with bevelled edges away.

Even so well in college until 2001 when he embarked on a new project with a loan amount of $ 10,000 from his grandmother. The first sample was used immediately in the home. A few years later they are mass produced with brand Knork and received quickly. In 2011, Knork Flatware sales of nearly $ 2 million.

5. Ugly doll

The ugly doll was brought in revenue of $ 100 million

Although the shape is not as cute as the other dolls, but sales of the dolls that horror gives its owner is desirable: more than $ 100 million since its inception. It all started in 1996 when Sun-Min Kim and David Horvath met was a student in design school Parsons School. They had to break up a few years after moving to Korea by Kim and usually only communicate by letter. In a letter written Horvath drew a little orange character and named it as Wage at the bottom.

Kim makes her friend was surprised when a self-embroidered dolls from the drawings and then donated boyfriend. In Horvath once accidentally brought this doll to a local shop for Asian Pop music buffs in Los Angeles, the owners have proposed order. Kim takes several months to add some new embroidery new model, but even when they appear in stores only next day was sold out. From now Kim and Horvath decided to start a company named Pretty Ugly 2002 and also married to terminate the distant scene.

Thanh Tung

According to CNBC