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Quentin,

I, too...am this type, with ideas flowing profusely. I`m going to be honest and make points in the hopes that some creative brainstorming of your situation helps you and others like us. I lack the cohesiveness of the perfectly stuctured explanation, but mine my mind vitamins for their worth.

They put me on a high dose of medicine with a false diagnosis, when my only psycholical sin is that I`m hypoglycemic, needing to make sure I snack often. Once I realized this, I lowered my psyche dosage to near nothing and together with regular balanced snacks, I can steer my creative swings from relative steady contemplation, to all out frantic notes of great names, products, slogans, etc. At 10.oo pr. year registration I have 175+ domains with over 100 corresponding blogs, and 50+ E-mails, and of course poetry. I am just barely managing to pay for one big canvass full of ideas in hopes my financial and business partnership life will improve.

The thing that jumps to mind is your question of what to do with multiple ideas, when reality says that the market is ripe with frivilous maybes and not a lot of people see the great in the gravy you`re wishing to dish. I say, don`t you dare sell without ensuring that your residual % is part of the contract. Selling lock stock and barrell without even an agreement of 1% of profits...is absurd. Ongoing revenue stream is critical.

You said yourself you wish someone would run the business and you would get a small portion for having made it a reality and helped them have success.

I dream on the internet, and I keep shaving it down to the best my mind thinks of. I am not yet a business per se or a company, but I imagine what I would most like to do. My idea was that the biggest potential entrepreneurs, startup adventurers and future small business successes are the up and coming youth. Help them startup and you have a gold mine of creativity to access for your overall vision. When you practically give them the domain and business, helping with seeking funding, all you have to do is stipulate that a small percentage return to the main (DannyBrand) and also a small percentage to the company charity. Well, that is my dreamscheme regardless if I have no investment mony right now. Just, whatever you do, please don`t listen to anyone who says stop. It is an obvious natural phenomenon that any kid will approach burnout, collapse, and regroup. Just protect your best stuff so if you do fall down you won`t wipe out. I think it`s called investors insurance.

Okay, before I go....I looked at BizUps!  You got a some great ones and you got some so so ones. While you`re trying to find the right market, do you think maybe that your best, my best, and mrX`s best voted on in a poll and shaved down to the most irresistable package going? I`m telling you, I don`t. Why? Because either people are going for the franchises of existing companies or they are taking CoffeeChains, stealing your idea of beans on a wire and calling it something different like ChoffeeChainz. See? I started doing the very same thing and realized that the only way I`m going to have success is get the domain, yes. #2. promote my own brand of  packaged help and support to others(without just giving the idea away). #3. Start with one product through all the right channels, with the hope that the creative extreme and the practicality of step by step growth, will come together before too much of my s**t get`s stolen. And that`s my plan.

I sure wish I had your budget and my plan of action. I wish we could make one great portfolio out of your ideas and mine. At least do this much. Be artistic and use luxurious leather and create an awsome portfolio notebook of ideas. Something you would be proud to show investors. Then shave it an add to it until it is irresistable. And put a logo at the top of each one in full color. Oh, I`m going on....HappyHalloween. ~daniel~ 

man i was trying to get 2 website name and i finally understand why Craig
said we are running out of names on the internet and there is about to be
an internet 2.

not to take away from the OP, I have been there before.. burnout is awful!

List your needs before your wants...or you are going to go crazy in the
waverly hills santoriaum.

One thing I used to get mad at was the squatters who sit on prime real
estate and want to sell it at a ridilous price.

But then I learn it is no different from the actual real estate in the city or
in a prime location in the actual world.

So so far as result since joining this site I came to create 3 additional
websites. One that came directly as a result of another post on this site.

I am trying to stop thinking small and am now trying to THINK BIG! After
all there soooooooooo many people that can benefit from my idea. And I
am sure as soon as I launch the copycats will come out of the
woodsworks because I beat them because I struck while oil was gushing!
lol

but like Frankie used to said in the 80`s .....RELAX...if u are dead serious
about being burnout..do a self assessment of yourself and see what
would make you happy to wake up in the morning! If you are going to sell
your business or train someone to take over - you should consider doing
a valuation of the business and determine how much it is worth doing. I
guess you want to have a residual income while from time to time

The most important aspect of anyone living is to know that TIME CAN
NOT BE REPLACE unless you are Superman and spin the planet backwards
or H.G. Wells and have access to a time machine lol

As a proud pappa of three dogs.. a Jack Russier, Yorkie and a mix chow/
lab I am a big fan of the Dog Whisper. He did said one thing that strucks
my mind....Dog live in the now we cant be focused in the past. Something
to that content, my brain is on overload... thanks to the Sloan`s brothers
book that I purchased today.

This morning, I was watching a cartoon show.. i think it is call 1.2.3
Penguins and Larryboy.. Hey dont knock it.. I am watching them for a
good reason lol but Larryboy`s Grannie told him, "Do good whenever you
have the power to do so" I was like wow because well you have to see the
espiode to understand.

The point is, everybody is unique as their DNA. The cycle of life is a roller
coaster ride.

I was burn out by this job and I was so content with being an employee
that I WAS pissed at myself for wasting time as a corporate slave as
oppose to doing what I am doing now and not being in a position to help
other people and do things that really matter.

I can truly understand where Donald Trump and Robert K was talking
about in their book We Want You to Be Rich. America has fallen victim to
entitlement.

So bottom line, whatever your next stop is make sure you are secure and
confident before leaping into the next project.

Much success in your endeavors

And to think I was long winded, I glad I am not the only one, and I like
reading CraigL`s response he is funny and yet informative. Sound like my
old Economics professor at Gallaudet Unversity.