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The Good-Business Plan CompetitionImagine you are considering a number of competitors in a business plan competition. The assignments ask you to?think about each proposal from three perspectives. Please make sure you stretch your thinking. We will not learn as much if we have a Minnesota 'nice" class where everyone is politically correct ?and says things like “we should only have nice businesses and nice people who are kind”.....even if you do not like one of the businesses you need to play devil's advocate to try to articulate how some people might best defend this approach and justify it.....only at the end do we ask you to consider what you think....think first, analyze first, understand all the perspectives first and only then come to judgment.For each of the following business plans, please take the ideas seriously, even if they are written a little tongue in cheek (they are all based loosely on real cases), come to class with you thoughts on each of these questions for EACH business plan:What are the BEST arguments you would make to propose that this business should not be made illegal? Why should people NOT be prosecuted for operating such a business? Why should they be protected from Big government regulation?What are the BEST arguments you would make to propose that this business should be illegal or highly regulated? From your own personal perspective, would you like to work for this business? If they offered you a job on graduation for $60,000 a year and a company car (let’s say a small Audi) which of these jobs would you take, and which would you not take….please stretch yourself and try to be honest.“Turn the tables” @UST.Value proposition: Are you sick of the profs having all that power over your future? Ready to turn the tables and use Tommy power to invest in your grade points and that all important graduation job. Why put up with generic term paper websites, we are Tommies and we are Tommy focused. We are serving overworked St. Thomas students who are prepared to invest cash in getting better grades. We will also help support the brightest St. Thomas students in earning extra cash from all their hard work. 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Special offer, this week only, $150 for a package of all the papers and assignments for Shapiro/Naughton Faith and Business Class, including a choice of 50 different analyses of “Pieper on Leisure.”Sykko JuiceOver the past ten years teens have developed a taste for strongly sugared, caffeinated drinks. Our products take that trend to the next level. We have developed high alcohol versions of these teen drinks. They will be marketed to ‘immature (but newly legal, of course!) drinkers’ using cartoon character called “Sykko the Sabre Toothed Tiger.” The drinks will be sold through convenience stores in states which permit alcoholic sales in food stores. In other states the drinks will be sold on-line through a website that features free video games. Obviously, the business will adhere to all laws regarding the sale of alcohol to the under-aged. However, the company is not responsible for the misuse of its product beyond the point of sale. We have hired a top class law firm which specialized in defending product liability cases to defend our product aggressively so that we are not unfairly targeted like Four Loko. Our mission is to give all (newly legal, of course!) kids the right to have fun and loosen up without having to get used to the taste of grown up beverages. Forget your Grandma’s port or your father’s whiskey…go SYKKO, and have some fun.End of the Lake bath saltsOur business focuses on the trend of synthetic pot. Only natural pot is illegal, but we have developed our own fast response custom lab where we can instantly modify any chemicals in our bath salts so that they are legal. All laws that control substances have to specify those substances, but all substances can be slightly modified so as to change their chemical name. Our high response lab will always be able to out-innovate the bureaucratic laws enabling us to continue to serve our customers with baths salts. One of our latest innovation is Urine-away, a $40 kits we have developed to "detoxify" marijuana users and others in order to pass a drug test. We have sold thousands of the kits this year alone. We don’t tell anyone what to do with the baths salts. They can put them in their bath, or water plants with them, or snort them or smoke them. That is not our affair. They should be free to do what they want. We in the USA have got the highest incarceration rate on the planet, all the government wants to do is punish people. Recreational drugs, including synthetics should be legal, regulated and labeled so that people know what they're getting and how much they can take. We are a market pioneer.Whisper Electronic cigarettesWe are going to sell and supply electronic cigarettes on the St. Thomas campus to highly stressed students. Smoking cigarettes can be deadly because of the tar and toxins. There are 10,000 chemicals including 40 carcinogens in cigarette smoke. Our cigarettes supply only pure nicotine and a small amount of steam. Electronic cigarettes are not even regulated by the FDA—that’s how safe they are. Our mission is to make smoking cool again and to make smoking an option for kids who are too young to smoke cigarettes. Make cancer and nasty smelling smoke a thing of the past…smoke a Whisper today!5. Bodies On-demand Gentleman’s clubEveryone likes sex. Sex is good. Men like naked women and women like naked men. Let’s celebrate beautiful bodies and have some fun. Our club will cater to young men and women who like to see beautiful bodies. Ever seen a waiter in a bar and thought about what they look like naked? Well in our club, you can just walk up and hand them your own pre-purchased “strip card” and they have to take it all for you right there! How cool is that. Even better you can buy a body shot and drink it right off their body….and they can’t say no. Don’t worry all our staff are volunteers and are well paid. They love this stuff. They are proud of their bodies. Many of them are using our great tips to pay their way through college. Don’t worry about safety either, all staff are have regular medical tests. Awesome music, awesome drinks, awesome bodies…what could be better. We are also an equal opportunity employer. We are not sexist! Men, women…any gender you like…they all get naked. We are totally legal and obey all relevant Minnesota and Federal laws. 6. Dumb Blonde T-shirtsOur business idea is to make and sell a series of really funny t-shirts that appeal to guys and that poke fun out of political correctness. T-shirts are easy to make a ton of money from and we can buy them cheap and stick on a rude slogan and sell them for ten times as much. Our initial product range include slogans like “With a chest like this who needs brains” or “pornstar in training”. We will avoid any legal liability by X-ing out any really offensive words like “F*CK YOU” We have no staff, the customers supply the slogans, no costs beyond the t-shirts and we intend to make a ton of money.7. Ethical cartoon pornography websiteCurrently the pornography laws are written to prosecute those who cause harm to other real human beings, especially children. Hence porn websites can be liable to prosecution if they do not have all the permissions from all the people featured in videos and pictures. We propose a totally cartoon based porn web site. No real human beings are needed for the creation of our product, there is no liability from staff or from stolen or coerced content. No one is harmed and our material is cheap to make and easy to produce. The porn industry is expanding at an exponential rate. Our business will bring low risk/ low cost/ no harm model to the porn industry and the margins and revenues will be huge. ................
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