Ronan O'Brien » New Business Ideas

TvTrade Official Launch

Ronan — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 00:13:26 +0000

I’m delighted to announce the launch of my latest venture – TvTrade.ie. An online Satellite Dish and freesat TV equipment business. It’s been a fantastic and educational experience re-structuring the business, refocusing the business from its primary focus on wholesale / trade and now selling direct to the retail market as well.

With any shift in a market comes fantastic opportunity and the RTE transition to digital later this year, coupled with increased demand for HD satellite receivers and pause and rewind TV makes this a very exciting time in the industry.

Free to Air Tv offers over 150 channels and radio stations for no monthly fee. The concept being with our video installation instructions and guides DIY enthusiasts will be able to install their own systems or we cane happily recommend some of our wholesale clients from all across Ireland who can install your chosen package.

Zatori.ie Site Launch

Ronan — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:43:36 +0000

This weekend i finally got around the putting up some content and working on the design for Zatori website. It was something that’s sat on the to do list, but had never been touched. Really do people ever get to the Important but not urgent sections of a to do list… Anyway i made it a priority this weekend and so far here’s the first draft.

Zatori Website Screen Grab

Having got some great feedback on twitter we will be lightening the theme a bit, as several people i really respect thought it was too dark – something i liked, but hey majority rule on this occasion. If any readers have any thoughts or feedback on the site i’d love to hear it.

The other interesting thing we’ve done is laid our cards on the table and spelt out what two new businesses i’d be launching in 2010. I don’t thing we’ve let the cat out of the bag, but if anyone’s interested in what industries i’m looking to shake up, visit the Zatori site.

The business opportunity of Wireless Electricity

Ronan — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 10:59:57 +0000

Probably the biggest change in the coming 10 years to peoples life styles is the advent of wireless electricity. As we any major shift it the rules of how thing are done, massive opportunity presents itself for a wide variety of new business to rocket forth and fill this new gap in demand. As with any business concept timing is everything and although if you offered the service in the morning no one would require it, in a short few years getting wireless electricity panels inserted into homes – in their walls, below their concrete floors etc will be massive opportunity for many business. It will be a demand that will likely be almost impossibly be able to met by the supply, hence a possibility of a super normal boom and bubble profit for the first and hence market leaders in this field.

The technology is already here, scientifically proven and working. In fact the potential has been around since Nikola Tesla invented it as early as 1893, but back then the need for remote charging of wireless electric cars and phones was less of an imminent need.

Will the current electricity providers be innovative enough to supply the early adopters hence keeping their control on the market? Possibly but i don’t think it’s likely as large companies with existing investment in the wired system are less likely to encourage it than say some new eco wind or wave power company that are struggling to gain market movement to their new systems; Airtricity come to mind.

If i was to hazard a guess i reckon they will in the end outsource much of the work to a company that has a faster reaction and collaboration employee structure. It’s a big opportunity, one which will make the next generations of millionaires.