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MOST people will not take the concrete steps required to become entrepreneurs, even when they say that is what they want to do. When it comes down to it, they’ll opt for what they know.
Very true.
Some places also breed more entrepreneurs than others. Some areas even, even smaller are some
specific cafes.
I find that people who are still more or less in the same social circles year after year are also the same types of individuals who are content climbing the ladders of companies. And by and large these are the significant portion of the population.
For others moving around, trying new things, connecting with new people, being a part of interesting technologies and shaping the markets for them all come with a certain type of personality and adventure.
Lets face it, starting businesses, hussling with no money to getting a huge cheque is not for most people. If someone always looks at it with a practical mind than there is no way they will have the steel to make it long term. Its not a career, its a lifestyle.
I can connect most of the things in my life to one another. Adventure touring on my motorcycle, skiing, surfing, business, travel, girls, party, education, it is all connected to some part of my brain, all in the same place it seems. I get a similar rush from all these aspects.
I went over to a friends studio yesterday (where I took some video of the 3D print) and we were playing with his hand held 3D scanner. We were jumping around like kids and throwing off business ideas like it was a lottery. Similar talk on a powder day, or an epic routledge over a mountain range on the motorbike. That shit is exciting.
Any way back on topic.
This set up we are playing with is mindblowing. Here is what we did.
Scope: I have been meeting lots of people with bunions lately. Most of these are women. One thing is that these women have a very tough time wearing high heels.
- So we plug in the 3D scanner to the laptop and scan a foot with bunions. The software models the foot perfectly, to scale.
- We import the foot into Rhino and model a quick high heeled shoe base that fits the foot perfectly.
- We export the .stl file to the 3D printer.
- We go next door for a couple beers and talk "blue sky ideas" and flirt with the sexy girls that work there.
- We go back to the studio and clean up the high heel foot bed. We have some of the "high heel" stilettos already and we click the pieces together.
We now have a custom high heel shoe prototype for a woman with bunions.
We also could have just sent the foot model .sti file over to the 3D printer and printed out the last. Or sent the file over to a 5 axis CNC milling machine and had the last made out of wood (more common).
This actually might be the best way to go. Get clients with bunions or foot deformity, scan their feet, make wooden lasts of their feet, and get custom shoes made in Indonesia.