10 People Who Became Millionaires With Super Weird Ideas

The formula for getting rich often involves two ingredients thinking differently (what could be called innovating) and being prepared to take risks. You can never be sure whether or not an idea will be profitable, the important thing is to try.

we, from awesome.clubwe believe that the best we can do is not be afraid of crazy and strange ideas, after all, many people have made great fortunes just like that.

Have you ever been in debt and without any hope that anyone could help you? Karyn Bosnak was in a difficult situation and found a courageous way to resolve her financial situation. She was $20,000 in debt, lost her job, and decided to go online for help. To her surprise, she found that she had a lot of people willing to help.

In less than six months Karyn not only paid off her debts but became a millionaire. After some time, she managed to multiply her fortune by publishing books about her life experience and launching a website.

Young biologist Alex Endon realized that people had no interest in jellyfish as pets and decided to change that scenario. He spent 50 thousand dollars and created a special aquarium just with jellyfish, fully suitable for their reproduction. In 2010, just a few years after launching, the business began to bring in $500,000 a year. Today, his annual earnings already exceed 1 million dollars.

A popular computer/social networking game called Second Life made Chinese teacher Ailin Graef the first person to earn $1 million from real estate in the virtual world. Ailin, believe me, bought a property built out of pixels to fix it up and rent it out.

In 2006, she won 1 million dollars (non-virtual), but she didn’t stop there and continued to buy houses in other online games. Graef started her own company and hired dozens of employees who work as virtual real estate agents and generate even more money for her business.

Artist Richard Prince, in the 80’s, decided that to become famous, enrich and contribute to art it was not necessary to create something. He took famous images and, after editing them, organized exhibitions and went on to sell them at auction for millions of dollars. Prince was prosecuted a few times, but almost every time he managed to escape. His concept is simple and controversial: “Authorship means nothing”.

Instagram photo screenshots sell for thousands of dollars and are a trademark of the artist. The author of one of these photos tried to compete with him and started to sell his work independently, but he earned a thousand times less. Today, in the age of the Internet, when the issue of copyright is so high, such a business seems not to be promising, but apparently it still seems to be profitable.

If you thought a lamp couldn’t surprise anyone else, Brian Jones showed the opposite. Founder of the company Red Rider Leg Lamps, he decided to sell lamps shaped like women’s legs. Brian ignored the jokes of friends and parents and went ahead with the idea. Today, for more than 15 years in the market, the company makes millions every year. Recently, the brand launched new products, but the leg-shaped lamps continue to be the most sought after items.

Mark Crames, current head of the Demeter brand, acquired the company in 2003 and set out to revolutionize the world of fragrances. His first ideas were perfumes with the scent of earth, grass and tomato, always thinking about how to relate smell and memory. New perfumes successfully entered the market and customers began to ask for novelties. It was then that he created the following perfumes: earthworm, funeral home, tennis ball, cat hair and other more normal ones. Among the themed collections, you can even find costumes related to vampires and zombies.

Currently, the perfume has gained the trust of the public and even Hollywood stars have fallen in favor of the company. Let’s wait and see what new surprises they come up with.

American Brandon Chikotsky went bald at a young age and decided to turn this fact into a way to make money. He started renting out his head to advertisements by getting temporary tattoos from different brands.

The idea was really profitable. After a short time, Brandon created the company Bald Logo, whose marketing campaigns generate more than a million publications on the Internet. For just $320 a day, employees’ shaved heads turn into an advertising platform and get high brand visibility for their customers.

Nowadays the world seems to be experiencing a great organic products craze. The company Eco Nuts has invented a laundry soap that contains natural elements from the Himalayas. The innovative idea brought big profits to the company. After some time, the executives decided to diversify their products, but nuts remain the brand’s flagship.

Systems developer Or Arbel created an app in just eight hours that lets bosses hire people with just one word. In just a few weeks, the app became a huge success on the AppStore and led sales worldwide. Companies could use the app to promote their offerings. Football fans began to receive messages with goals scored and the Starbucks coffee chain began to use it to let their customers know that their orders were ready.

Although the app didn’t stay at the top for long, its creator took in more than 1.5 million dollars.

More than 10 years ago, two British students had an idea of ​​how to make money by sending SMS messages directly into space. They claimed they managed to create a radio-magnetic sensor capable of sending a text message directly into interstellar space. For this, people who wanted to send a message to the Universe had to call a special number, say the message (short) and, of course, pay for the service provided. Naturally, customers were not given clear evidence that the SMS had been sent correctly, but the students took 1 million dollars with the idea.

The project was closed in a short time, but since then other similar projects have appeared. Apparently, conquering space is an eternal desire of the human being, even if it is by sending an SMS.

What about you, do you have any weird ideas that could make you more than a million dollars?