MBA Idea No.2: Rent out room, fund vacation
Airbnb turns unoccupied living space into instant Bread and Breakfast lodging. Reservations happen just like a hotel.
Example: Andrew works at home in San Francisco with roommates. When he travels, e.g. for July 4th weekend, he rents out his empty room to cover the cost of his plane ticket. His girlfriend does the same as they travel together.
Airbnb subsidizes the cost of Andrew’s massive Mission street apartment: “there’s no way I could live here without AirBnB”
Airbnb is funded by YCombinator and founded by a Harvard CS grad and two BFAs from the Rhode Island School of Design.
Check out Andrew on video here.
MBA Idea No.1: Startup Ideas from Silicon Valley
MBA Ideas.com shares daily startup ideas discussed by the MBA community at Stanford University.
This site has two goals: First, to bring to the world the most interesting new venture conversations in Silicon Valley. Second, to provide a platform for discussing entrepreneurship and investment with people from around the globe.
This blog is available via machine translation in Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Arabic, Hindi, Portuguese, Russian and Turkish.
If you’re an entrepreneur, investor, professor or student of entrepreneurship, please consider joining our weekday email service, or subscribing via RSS in your favorite reader.
The website started as a summer project by Ian Tien, a second year Stanford MBA student, and benefits from the efforts of collaborators across Stanford, the MBA student community, and a global network of entrepreneurs, investors, professors and friends of MBA Ideas.com.
Want to get involved?
Share comments in the daily idea posts, or submit startup ideas for the site (form below).
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