Brains on the Outside: A Business Ideas Podcast

Recorded in the Brewdog Waterloo recording studio, this episode is all about food. It's an exciting time, but Alex has sadly forgotten all his Greggs' branded clothes! Greggs crossovers are obviously the future - clothing is already been done though, what's next? Perfume? The Royal Family? Finally, we are back with another Industry News Reviews asking the eternal question: can gum r...

Living your everyday life and running a business is inherently risky, but does it have to be? The new Apple Watch promises to make certain extreme sports safer - we discuss whether the future Apple Watch Ultra 2 will continue to apply this concept to more activities. Then, at work, we are met with constant dangers! When was the last time you completed a risk assessment about the glare from your co...

Recently we went to the best wedding ever - but how can you plan the worst one? We pitch a business designed to keep unwanted guests out of your wedding ceremony, and then pitch another that plans ways to deliver the ring to the bride and groom in the snazziest way possible. If you have a business problem, ad or idea you'd like us to discuss you can contact us at brainsontheoutside@gmail.com,...

Lies and misinformation are rampant on Twitter. There are people making ridiculous claims with zero repercussions. It can't go on, but how can we stop this? In today's episode, we pitch a new business that will begin to set things right, by forcing people who bend the truth to prove it. We'll make normal people compete in the Olympics, that sort of stuff.  We also think about our fa...

This is a commerce heavy episode. If you work in retail you're going to want to listen to this one. Shopping is changing and consumers have higher expectations of their supermarket experiences than ever before. In this episode we dive right into the future of buying so get ahead of the curve and feast upon these incredible ideas for overhauling retail. PS. Ted Danson, if you're reading t...

Andrew is in Bruges (like the film but hopefully with fewer murders) this week so we've got another remote episode and because it's Bruges, which is fancy and full of culture, this is an extremely highbrow episode. We discuss new ways to make money from your bathroom when you're not using it as well as an extremely cutting edge solution to getting caught out when you're despera...

This episode includes ideas that are mostly for animals. Humans can listen too but seriously, these are premium business ideas for the animal kingdom. We discuss a data platform that for A/B testing and training your humans, we have a quiz that will help you to find your Spirit Human and we dive deep into the wacky world of human jobs to help you find employment in the future. If you have a busine...

Alex dials in from France to pitch two radical new business ideas! Against all odds, we've created the only useful Web 3.0 blockchain app: a way to give animals and trees cute new names! And you know those creepy creeky noises you heard in the middle of the night? Well, we've solved that too! If you have a business problem, ad or idea you'd like us to discuss you can contact us at b...

Even though they are still on holiday, Andrew and Alex attempt to create innovative, Four-Quadrant content to bring exciting business ideas to the masses. In this short holiday episode we play a quick few rounds of Snake Oil - coming up with ideas to help you escape desert islands, to help vampires stop being attacked by stakes, and to make sure you always have a cape! If you have a business probl...

Since Andrew and Alex are heading out on their summer holidays we are here with a shorter (but still just as innovative) episode. This week we play a quick round of the Clickhole game Business Walrus, to come up with some new/exciting/radical/disruptive business ideas!  If you have a business problem, ad or idea you'd like us to discuss you can contact us at brainsontheoutside@gmail.com,  www...

What's better when it's hot than having a lovely, cold ice cream? Well, let me tell you, it's more complicated than it looks to make that delicious treat! This week, we read a The Manufacturer article about the Kendal-based ice cream producer Lakes Ice Cream, and how they are trying to become more efficient. Over here in the Brains on the Outside offices, we love ice cream, and we a...

Today, we meet Lucy Budge, a particle physics researcher who (in her own words) is 98% of the way to becoming a doctor! Together, we read through a series of New Scientist articles, using them as inspiration for innovative products/ businesses/ services. We find ways to use quantum entanglement to help magicians, and how to recommission the Large Hadron Collider as a very powerful slide. If you ha...

We are back to offer our free consultancy service to solve a timeless problem: how to make queues suck less. Can we make the queues at Disney World better? We don’t know, but we try anyway. Then, we form a new start-up aimed at centaur-ing you with any animal you want! If you have a business problem, ad or idea you'd like us to discuss you can contact us at brainsontheoutside@gmail.com,  www....

This week we read from the premier industry publication for manufacturing, The Manufacturer, and try to help them understand how to stop obsolescence in aerospace. To be totally honest, Andrew isn't quite sure what that means, but we try our best to help anyway. Then, we play a few rounds of Snake Oil which (like our show) is all about coming up with ridiculous business ideas! We want to than...

Nigel Watson, a real life CIO, joins us for our first ever episode to feature a guest! This weeks jam-packed episode was recorded from Northumbria Water’s Innovation Festival, where we join forces to try stop rats taking over the UK. Then, the incredible musical comedy duo Harry and Chris have contributed a song they have written and performed about rats and their rodenty ways! We would like to th...

This week we help some brand new listeners with ideas about how to get someone out of the house they are refusing to leave. Our long time listener Helen sends us a fabulous idea of a pen that carries sauces. And finally we wrap up the show by designing Democracy 2. An entirely new and better way to do democracy. If you have a business problem, ad or idea you'd like us to discuss you can conta...

There are so many streaming services these days but... what if there was one more? A service to beat all other streaming services? Or... maybe there should be loads more? Thousands more? These are the questions at the forefront of our minds in this week's show. We also apply some outside brain thinking to preventing your precious precious staff from getting poached (and not in the cooking way...

What is the Universal Appeal of Mayonnaise? This week, inspired by an article Hellmann's has written in the food industry magazine The Grocer, we try to find out. Finding innovative, disruptive uses for Mayonnaise, we try to bring Hellmann's a 100% condiments market share. Then, as this is our 20th episode, we decide to go back to our first ever business ideas and discuss how to make eve...

This week we tackle some big business and tech problems, inspired by actual things from our real non-podcasting jobs! How do we get people to get back to the office? And how can you cure an addiction to VR and the Metaverse? This weeks ad comes from an architect who wants to get you on a future episode of Ancient Aliens If you have a business problem, ad or idea you'd like us to discuss you c...

This week we answer two extremely important questions: What if instead of all those stupid qualifications you seem to need these days you just had a bunch of brownie badges? And how do you protect your precious bird videos from enemy twitchers? This week's ad is for a brand new gig service from TicketMaster! If you have a business problem, ad or idea you'd like us to discuss you can cont...

Alex imagines a new form of social media: partly the encyclopedia and partly a Scratch and Sniff. We also have two separate listeners contact us about their anxieties around packing, and we really try our best to make them something to help them out. If you have a business problem, ad or idea you'd like us to discuss you can contact us at brainsontheoutside@gmail.com,  www.twitter.com/brainso...

So it seems we really like inventing by dice? We are back this week once again using Atomic Shrimps' Invention Dice! We invent up a way to use trees as a spreadsheet, a novel way of vandalising art, and a portable aquarium! Invention Dice: https://atomicshrimp.com/post/2014/01/20/Invention-Dice If you have a business problem, ad or idea you'd like us to discuss you can contact us at brai...

Relentlessly coming up with new business ideas can be hard! Luckily, this week we have some help! In this episode, we use Atomic Shrimps' Invention Dice to create a whole set of products, businesses and services. Each dice in the set has a theme (eg, material, or scale) which decides an element of your product. There are 46,656 different unique combinations the dice can give you - have a list...

Twitter is done for. Or is it. No it probably is. Or is it. Who knows really but the only sure fire way to really survive this social media apocalypse (or not) is to start a whole new better social network. BotO this week is all about social and we really take things to the next level with THREE entirely new social networks. Zuckerberg eat your heart out. If you have an business problem, ad or ide...

This week we're taking individually useful things and combining them into even better things.  We talk about generating power in new and fancy ways and then we save space in office buildings and homes across the world. Our sponsor this week is UBAG - Uber for shopping bags. If you have an business problem, ad or idea you'd like us to discuss you can contact us at brainsontheoutside@gmail...