RE: RE: The Earth on sale! Wild West re-released. The story of a failed business idea that was actually quite charming.
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RE: The Earth on sale! Wild West re-released. The story of a failed business idea that was actually quite charming.

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Thank you, I am happy to have you entertained :)

It was a purely virtual project. The concept is simple: you just provide the world map, with all the places and street names that exist, and put it up for sale. After buying a street, a city or a country, it's yours and you can do what you want with it. Use it as your advertising space for your business or sell it on and trade it with other users. Gift a place to your business partners as an incentive etc. You can use the search function to see whether Cairo has already been sold and who owns it. The owner is then a company or a private person. If it is not yet sold, you can make a purchase and set your own price if you want to resell it. Of course, we gave the pre-emptive right for certain places to those we went to first and they all took advantage of it.
Most of them also bought the house number of the street where they had their business in real life, it only cost five or ten euros if I remember correctly.

Yes, those were exceedingly exciting times. I could hardly believe that a law firm, for example, had worked for free, because the legal aspects of this were not entirely trivial.

Once we thought along these lines, we imagined that other objects, such as celestial images or planets, could also be considered. HaHa! Our optimism knew no bounds.

In any case, it shows that ideas sell. People buy even when they have no proof that a thing can succeed. The option alone is enough for them.

Here is another post where you actually can see our videos which we produced for our sales:
@erh.germany/about-entrepreneurship-and-decentralization

A few years later, when I woke up in the morning, I had an idea that electrified me and I started writing it down and contacting Rupert Sheldrake, a British scientist who promotes the theory of morphic resonance. To my great surprise, he even replied and I sent him our concept and we exchanged questions and answers. Unfortunately, nothing came of this idea either, because we didn't have the money to have my app idea programmed.

If you want to read that story as well, I can look it up and send you the link. HaHa!
We were full of it.