Firstly the point you make about posting the ideas on a website and waiting for someone with a business knowledge to assist in the development of the idea into a viable business has many drawbacks. You will have to file a patent within one year of publishing your idea.
Secondly you may not want your ideas stolen by some unscruplus person. There are numerous networking groups available in almost every city in the US or you can form your own group using Meetup.com. There you will come across numerous knowledgeable persons who are willing to assist. You should try the MIT enterprise forum or TiE. These are two good organization.

Regarding thebuyersNET.com, it has not flopped as Ram claims. We got tremendous feedback from a controlled user group. We have used this feedback to develop further. In the next couple of weeks we will be launching version 2 which is leaps and bounds above version 1. We are very greatful to Ram for his assistance during the initial period.

Starting up a business from ground up is no easy task. However you need not only a good idea but perseverance to make it work. Nobody said doing business was easy. That is the reason we have more employees than buinesses.

Good luck with your idea. You will suceed as long as your ready to put in a lot of sweat equity and have a never say die attitude.

Satya

I am a web designer and I own a pretty successful web design company. I have worked on a many number of projects, and I spend most of my time thinking of the next big thing. Allow me to add to your idea.

The idea that you speak of is a forum. Easy to do. But the issue, is that networking and finding the right people is hard to do. So my idea, is create an online secret society if you will. A message board where only certain members are allowed. It takes a lengthy online application process to join. This makes it a very secretive portal where people of great minds can work together and discuss new innovative ideas. Each member would know, what each member brought to the table. Each member would help other members when they can and receive help when they need. This would eventually grow, into an online secret society networking superior minded individuals together from all over the world. If done right, the amount of power the collective would have over time would be insane. Especially, if the businesses and website ideas created and launched by the members were successful. Now, not only is there a vast collective of great minds working together, but now these great minds have capital and resources. This would be a scary thought for the business world. A lovely thought for us and the ones were apart of it.

anyway, e-mail me if you’re in to this. I’ll have one built over night for us at no cost.

-Jason Thomas

Regards
Harvey

i read ur post on the inventive ideas stuff and I too share the same kind of mindset as u. Every morning before starting work , i spend atleast 20-25 minutes battling to find new ideas that could really be implemented into business opportunities. I also have the technical skills myself to implement the same but till now I havent succeeded in thinking of anything breakthrough like “youtube” or “facebook” . I think the key to these business ideas lies in their simplicity and mass appeal to non-it people. I did like your idea about the discussion forum ,but i dont think it will qualify as a breakthrough idea since theres a lot thatz required to be done even after actually launching the product,if u understand what i am saying.

I have written the site http://www.thebuyersnet.com for a friend of a friend of mine becoz the idea seemed cool at that time , but eventually after the launch , it flopped. I am out of this project now.

You can contact me at dalalram@gmail.com if u wish to.

warm regards
Ram