827: My Business Idea - Revision history

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Firestar233 at 23:46, 14 February 2025

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Firestar233 at 22:19, 14 February 2025

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172.69.195.56: Undo revision 343330 by 172.70.35.106 (talk) No rhetoric sense. Reads better without the stated number (which, conceivably, isn't even 137).

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Undo revision 343330 by 172.70.35.106 (talk) No rhetoric sense. Reads better without the stated number (which, conceivably, isn't even 137).

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 ::Like five years ago.
 :Proof you had it:
-::I told my friend Mike - you can ask him! I was all "you know what would make a great business idea?" and he was all "Dude, [...]"
+::I told my friend Mike - you can ask him! I was all "you know what would make a great business idea?" and he was all "dude, [...]"
 :Their profit so far:
 ::$20,000,000

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 ::Like five years ago.
 :Proof you had it:
-::I told my friend Mike - you can ask him! I was all "you know what would make a great business idea?" and he was all...
+::I told my friend Mike - you can ask him! I was all "you know what would make a great business idea?" and he was all "Dude, [...]"
 :Their profit so far:
 ::$20,000,000

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 Many people have shared [[Cueball]]'s experience of seeing someone else make a profit from an idea that they themselves had. This comic plays with the thought of what would happen if {{w|intellectual property}} thinking was taken to an extreme, and if companies or people were keener on "setting things right" than money.
-In reality, having a great idea alone, of course, does not create a profitable business; there must generally be an enormous amount of effort put in to create a business from scratch, popularize it, and keep it standing. Having done none of this, Cueball would probably not deserve close to the "30% cut" he claims even if intellectual property did work the way it is presented here. Multiplying $20,000,000 by 30% gives $6,000,000, which would be a lot of cash for doing nothing but having an idea and telling it to someone.
+In reality, having a great idea alone, of course, does not create a profitable business; there must generally be an enormous amount of effort put in to create a business from scratch, popularize it, and keep it standing. Having done none of this, Cueball would probably not deserve close to the "30% cut" he claims even if intellectual property did work the way it is presented here. Multiplying $20,000,000 by 30% gives $6,000,000, which would be a lot of cash for doing nothing but having an idea and telling it to someone. The delivery address is to an address on 'Ash Tree Lane', referencing the space-warping house on the same street from the mysterious '{{w|House of Leaves}}' book.
 The title text is an extension of this story, presumably coming from the company, comedically apologising for not knowing sooner about [[Cueball]]'s idea, and revealing that they corroborated this claim with his friends at a party about this venture, even kindly offering him a larger share of their revenue.

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 ==Trivia==
 This comic was originally called [[827: Business Idea]], but Randall renamed it on 11:35 AM UTC to resolve a conflict on [https://xkcd.com xkcd.com]. The conflict was created when he released the comic [[1721: Business Idea]] around five years after this comic's release, as both comics shared the same name and filename. This is the third time Randall has released a comic with a [[:Category:Comics sharing name|name exactly the same]] as a previous comic.
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