Come up with a crazy business idea.

Thinking back over the last 20 years or so, I’m trying to recall all the things that have come and gone for business ideas and products that seemed wild and unthinkable prior to their arrival. Things that were innovative.

Walkman/Discman into MP3 players, where physical media transformed into a digital and subsequently into streaming subscription services. Brick phones into smaller form factors and eventually into the touchscreen designs. Home console and portable video game advancements into the digital library of Steam and other services.

Granted, those are major technological advancements in the realm of consumer entertainment. There’s also the advancement of food services and transportation. Depending on where you lived a car was a necessity of life. Now you can pull up your phone and hit some on-screen buttons to summon a vehicle through apps like Uber and Lyft, or rent an electric scooter. Food delivery used to be limited to specific things like pizza. Now if a restaurant is set up for it you can use apps to order just about anything and have it be delivered to you at home or work.

So, bearing those kinds of things in mind, what can you even come up with these days that could be a feasible (if crazy) business idea?

Not that I want to get too serious and be realistic, I just want to think of something that makes sense. Not like combining skydiving with laser tag, because as cool as that sounds it just doesn’t sound like it would work the way we imagine. So, why not the next best thing?

Crazy business idea: combine snowboarding and paintball! You could have parallel courses down a variety of slopes, each offering different cover environments for different skill/experience levels. One game style could just be a race down to the bottom with as many survivors as possible. Another could be a race to the bottom while also leaving an object in a safe spot halfway down, tag in a teammate or group at the bottom that climbs up with their boards to that certain safe point to retrieve the object to bring back to the bottom. All while trying to hit the opposing team to knock them out of the game. Of course, it wouldn’t be normal paintball paint because that would freeze, but maybe a dry paint powder style paintball. Operations would be similar to regular paintball courses, offering rental gear and scheduling. Unfortunately, this would likely have a very small subset of interest for people who like both snowboarding and paintball, so a very limited number of people would be interested, meaning business wouldn’t be great.

Still, it would be cool to see in action!