Science & Industry

Who am I?

My name is Sinqlaison, supercapital (pack) producer, see my main sales thread. I need your business ideas and am willing to pay well for them.

Price

1 billion ISK for the the best idea to be paid out in Dec-1. The #2 'runner up' idea earns 500 mln ISK, and #3 gets 250mln ISK. I will be the judge of who the winners are and publish that in this thread. In case you have some concerns whether I will pay up, this is the second time I run this contest. The previous time was Idea contest October 2011 when I awarded 5+ billion ISK for the best 9 ideas.

If I get ideas as strong as last time I can decide to pay out more (as I did last time, when I paid out 3-4 times what I had promised). For those curious, I implemented 3 out of the 9 price winning ideas from the October-2011 contest, investing over 500 bln in the process.

Background & context

For my current business I employ some 3.5 trillion ISK in terms of titan BPOs/BPCs, capital construction BPOs/BPCs, cash, POS & fuel, capital construction components, and some unnamed other businesses (you may guess which ;-)

However, I expect to have another 300 bln ISK at hand in 3 months and need plans to invest that.

What I believe in is investment opportunities that provide a sustainable advantage. Requiring massive capital is a good basis for providing sustainable advantage as there are limited people/corporations/alliances in Eve who can muster 100's of billions to invest. I view it like Shell or Exxon who can sink 13 bln dollar in a new LNG operations, they will be able to reap a nice rent thereafter - if they manage the political risks well. Am looking for similar ideas in Eve as well.

My constraint is time. As I am 1 person, not a big alliance, any idea must be executable with limited effort. Capital is no issue, time is.

Your idea

If you are interested to participate in the contest - post your idea here, or post a short note and write me in game. Your post here should then just say 'Idea on XYZ - sent you mail in game". That way you signify you participate, without spilling all the beans.

Idea description

In your post here, or your mail in game, please describe the nature of the business, the way it creates value, what investment is needed and wy you think it will create sustainable advantage

Fun ideas

Obviously we expect a few ideas like "donate it to me and I will pay you the double amount in 6 months" and the like. They are welcome too, though not likely to win a price

Date of announcement of winners

Will be December-1


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May the best idea(s) win !!

reserved

Also I wanted to verify if you are specifically looking for ideas for you to invest isk into, or ideas that you yourself will be planning on doing yourself. Your post suggests either possibility, but to give you the best ideas I have thought about or have planned doing myself requires knowing specifically if you are looking to invest into projects, run projects yourself, or looking for partners to work with.

Looking for ideas to execute myself. So not looking to fund others' projects, but to start my own. Thx for the clarifying question and your first idea

Plexes will be rising to an all time high, buy and sell those.

Idea on profiting from ship balancing and price changes sent in game.

thank you for the ideas, keep 'm coming

With the ORCA's unscanable, nothing drops, cargo hold about to be nerfed, I expect freighters to become much more popular.

Even if the prices do not spike, which I am sure they will, there is already profit to be made off them. the returns are really good if you have well researched BPO's. The only issue is the low number sold, which I believe will increase a lot once the ORCA nerf goes live.

Since most serious industrial pilots already have trained to fly an itty 5 (can hold over 40k m3 fully expanded) an Obelisk is a logical next step as they already have the prerequisite racial industrial to 5. Sure it is not the highest M3 cargo hold like the Charon but it is easy to get into if you already have an itty 5.

I have all the BPO's needed for all the components, as well as an Obelisk BPO in the cooker for ME research coming out soon. However, I do not have the capital to mass produce them. I believe this is a great opportunity for someone with massive capital to back it. After all how often does a patch or expansion directly affect heavy haulers. This may be the only time freighters get a big spike in sales.

I also have a detailed plan to produce Jump freighters. At least the gallente Anshar, as I also have all the needed component BPO's researched to ME 100 PE 100. According to my plan working from base mats up, including running a low sec reaction tower to reduce costs on the huge amount of fullerides needed.(close to 75% of the entire build cost) I can produce the Anshar for just over 6 bil and they are still selling for over 8 bil. They do not sell fast, but I only need to sell a couple per day to make good isk at almost 2 bil profit per unit.

If I had the capital to put my plans into action it could be a mega billion isk industry. If this sounds like a good plan you would consider I would be willing to share the details of my plan. Or aside from this contest if you would consider funding me to do all the work and get my plan rolling for a cut of the profits, and/or loan repayed with interest, mail me.

I have not tried to secure a loan or bond for the needed capital as the only collateral I have is the BPO's which I need to make the plan work. I have many other BPO's but they are not worth near enough to serve as collateral. Putting it into work with my own funding I am only looking at producing 4-6 Obelisk's and 1-2 Anshar per month. It will take me several months to raise enough capital to scale it up. But if you have over 300 bil to throw around, My plan only needs about 50 bil to really get rolling and be fully self sufficient. I have already invested about 10 bil into my plan and it is moving forward. More isk could make things move a lot faster.

In hind sight I should have station traded with my 10 bil until I raised enough to put the full plan into action. But I really enjoy this part of the game, and was not liking station trading to much, despite the good isk made from it. this is turning out to be a very enjoyable challenge.

The purchase, and resale of characters via the forums.

With 300bil in ISK you can reach a wide variety of customers. Off the top of my head character types to trade in are; Tengu pilots, cap pilots, mid-range(30-50mil SP) pvp pilots, manufacturing alts, and mining alts.

A profitable strategy will include a diverse portfolio of undervalued characters, and characters that are missing high-profile skills. A classic example would be a carrier character that is missing JDC V, or an otherwise fine production alt that does not have mass production V.

With this kind of strategy you can have multiple accounts open, where two slots are filled by undervalued characters, and the other by a diamond in the rough that is training skills.

I think you'll find this venture to be both capital-intensive (thus limiting competition) and profitable.

thx for the next batch of ideas

after some time I will - like last time - make a shortlist and ask the guys on the shortlist to provide a bit more meat on the bone for their idea, so I can better judge them