Two vital bookmarks for every €irePreneur are TrendWatching.com and its sister site Springwise New Business Ideas. The former is an excellent mega-trends monitor and the latter brings you 'cool new business ideas and companies, proven successful with consumers in a certain country or region, and thus, in our global community, well positioned to take off in the rest of the world'.
I'm amazed at the quality of information in these two sites. Trendwatching.com has recently covered such intriguing trends as the 'Floridisation' of Southern Europe with baby boomers from this continent increasingly turning southern Spain, France and Italy into alternative versions of the retirment state of Florida.
But Trendwatching.com doesn't just describe trends, it ties them together. For instance it connects 'Floridisation' to 'Immi-merce' (ecommerce catering to immigrants, such as Irish emmigrants buying Denny sausages and rashers from Boston) to 'Nations*lite' (designer man-made islands) to 'Transumerism' (eager consumerism at airports), etc.
Springwise New Business Ideas, is more focused on actual business ideas which have been hugely successful in limited or specific geographical locations and remain to be exploited or duplicated in the rest of the world.
Its eye and mind opening stuff.
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