41 ideas to start your business

BUSINESS

Switzerland is a breeding ground for young customers. The latest figures from the Federal Statistical Office speak of 11,531 births in 2011. Any of 20,484 new jobs, full time or part time. If need to start vibrating in many people, the good idea is sometimes delayed. Therefore, Bilan has listed 41 business ideas unearthed abroad who are still little or developed here.

Some concepts have emerged in discussions with venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, university or industrial teachers. Other projects have been unearthed in specialized sites in launching businesses. Some ideas even came verification readers who expressed their scarcity, especially in services in Switzerland. Besides this sector are essential to start new technologies, including mobile applications have an initial cost less.

Balance still gives you a tip: do not forget to focus on the ecological aspect and manufactured in Switzerland. When attempting to jump alone is very rewarding to ally with friends can become much more satisfying and reassuring. Franchises are a little risky streak that want to create your business. In the end, what we must remember to create a company, if unsuccessful, it is especially the security of living a human experience
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Food Hospitality

A restaurant that is committed to zero waste
The idea: Surfing the green trend and respond to overload hyperpackaging with logistics upstream and downstream of private or commercial use.
Operation: Buy without packaging, reuse all kinds of boxes, bottles, vases, serving customers in glass porcelain with cloth napkins and disposable paper or plastic anything.
All organic preparation enters a farm to make compost. No ticket to the cashier and pay online or via a smartphone app. Ability to offer foods that include fully edible as it is the Wikibar in Paris (www.wikipearl.com) containers.
Initial Investment: High
Risk: Medium
Originality: ++++
Potential return: $$$

A restaurant that counts calories

The idea: Intended for those watching their weight, this restaurant offers tasty and balanced menus (starter, main course and dessert) totaling a maximum of between 500 and 600 calories. The idea is to delight the palate without frustration.
Performance: The same as a traditional restaurant. Get advice from a dietitian. You can also offer a delivery service of snacks.
Initial Investment: High
Risk: Medium
Originality: +++
Potential return: $$$

Lunch with a foot massage

The idea here is not lunch feet in the water, but with a foot massage. This concept exists in many cities in Asia. A must see, even if it may offend some sensibilities.
Operation: The premises shall be provided with comfortable chairs with tables for food trays for guests to relax to the fullest. Suggest election three menus for your convenience.
Initial Investment: High
Risks: Raised
Originality: +++
Potential return: $$$

A coworking space with coffee and snacks at will

The idea: The coworking concept is still underdeveloped in western Switzerland. Therefore provide a workspace equipped (computers, printers, broadband, etc.), but also a place to pause, with drinks and snacks at will.
Operation: Locate the scene at that cater to both the world of work and relaxation. Offer Rate in time or monthly subscriptions. This concept comes to see the day in Paris (www.anticafe.fr).
Initial Investment: High
Risk: Medium
Originality: +++
Potential return: $$$

Coffee roasted beans Delivery

The idea: The coffee market is a significant economic challenge. Despite a Nespresso near monopoly, there is a niche to provide small black lovers of true Italian coffee. Therefore offer cheaper coffee, greener and better taste.
Operation: Partner with a manufacturer of coffee machines and then offered to deliver to your home or office roasted coffee beans. In the same vein, the Caffettino start (www.caffettino.ch) circulating in western Switzerland with his bike while offering authentic Italian coffee meeting a success.
Initial Investment: Low
Risk: Medium
Originality: +++
Potential return: $$$

Delivering fresh bread

The idea: offer an alternative to retail sites (Migros and Coop) offering to deliver fresh bread and crafts every morning or evening
7 days 7 or desired number of times a week.
Operation: Working with one or more suppliers, to which it is commanded. This service will be especially appreciated by people with disabilities or people who do not have a bakery within walking distance. You can establish a secure panière, in the manner of a mailbox to customers.
Initial Investment: Medium
Risk: Medium
Originality: +++
Potential return: $$

The Candy Bar

The idea: offer gourmets with candies, chocolates, cakes and other sweets for children and adults. Ability to organize birthdays, babys showers, christenings or pastry workshops that teach the art of decorating cakes.
Operation: Find a good location, not necessarily in the center. Need a nearby car park because it is easier for moms who want to take their children. The little things that make a difference: Candy Bar should rejoice as the eye that papillae (www.le-candy-bar.com). There is also the M & M Chocolate Bar or Bar version.
Initial Investment: High
Risk: Medium
Originality: +++
Potential return: $$$

Cook & Go

The idea: classes that start at home with the dishes prepared by the required number of persons Cooking. Ideal for entertaining friends, without complicating the preparation of menus, shopping and preparation.
Operation: Put original recipes with a chef in a fun environment. Offer workshops with different themes (sushi, muffins, etc.) and workshops of parents and children on Wednesdays and Saturdays. See also www.cook-and-go.com site.
Initial Investment: High
Risk: Medium
Originality: +++
Potential return: $$$

Pop Up Store

The idea: opening a pop-up once you rent signs or marks, where the latter want to achieve store, temporary sale.
Operation: destocking, product testing, exhibitions of paintings and jewelry, there are many reasons to rent a space to set up at every opportunity. This concept already exists in western Switzerland (www.the-square.ch), but is not yet well developed.
Initial Investment: Medium
Risk: Medium
Originality: ++
Potential return: $$$

Children / seniors

Kit of children for restaurants
The idea: A meal in a restaurant can become a nightmare if nothing suitable for children. The kit allows many restaurateurs customers to be relaxed without undergoing noise toddlers or its invasive consoles games.
Operation: Preparing for restaurants complete kits including high chairs, plastic cups, menus, coloring, crayons, some books and maybe some games. Finally, the design of the garden with outdoor games.
Initial Investment: Medium
Risk: Low
Originality: ++++
Potential return: $$$

children's library

The idea: To provide a space for literary discovery where parents and children can take time to read and cultivate.
Operation: Find an area with armchairs, ottomans and sofas and thematic books library. Suggest new and used books for sale and for rent. Organize meetings with authors, illustrators and children. Install a corner living area for parents. Few places already exist in western Switzerland (www.auchienbleu.ch, Bookstore Gaspard Duck / Duck Reading in Nyon)
Initial Investment: High
Risk: Medium
Originality: ++
Potential return: $$$

Babysitting 24/24

The idea: As physicians who travel the county 24/24, offering a babysitting service available at all times very quickly. This service is popular among expatriates and those who have no close relatives to turn to for help in case of emergency.
Operation: Select qualified staff willing to work at any time of day or night. As the doctor, emergency babysitting service or night can get quite expensive economic benefits.
Initial Investment: Low
Risk: Medium
Originality: ++++
Potential return: $$$

Baby Concierge

The idea: to help a mom to buy everything you need for the baby's arrival. The service includes the purchase, delivery and installation of furniture and other decorative elements.
Operation: Suggest that service directly to baby stores or launch a website with different offers for the arrival of the newborn. In addition to collecting their benefits on time, negotiate a commission on each company.
Initial Investment: Low
Risk: Low
Originality: ++
Potential return: $$

children Taxis

The idea: offer a taxi service exclusively for transporting children to their tennis lessons or piano Wednesday afternoon or after school. So download moms and nannies who have no driving license or car.
Operation: This is a traditional company taxi, but exclusively for children alone or accompanied by a responsible adult. This service may also develop seniors.
Initial Investment: High
Risk: Medium
Originality: ++++
Potential return: $$

Medical / Health / Trade
Botox bar

The idea: In line with the nail bars or bars that make recipe smile French-bar Botox is open to all, with or without an appointment cosmetic medical practice, to make a little injection of botulinum toxin in thirty minutes.
Operation: Open a "drive-in" to the city center and to partner with a doctor to comply with the law without taking risks. The concept begins softly to emerge in western Switzerland, but a good market share still take. The concept can be extended to other cosmetic treatments available without an appointment.
Initial Investment: High
Risk: Medium
Originality: +++
Potential return: $$$$

Fringe Bar / eyebrow / buns

The idea: Change the look for a night or be tweeze eyebrows ins, offered by bars and bars fringed eyebrows that are fashionable in Paris (promoting hair www.didact com.). For the first, is the opportunity to be a false clipper strip, just to try a new cut without sacrificing their hair. There is also a bar bows version.
Operation: To provide this service directly to salons or open a space dedicated exclusively to clipper strip, buns and why not also the eyebrows.
Initial Investment: Medium
Risk: Medium
Originality: +++
Potential return: $$$

Thalasso ins

The idea: A little massage of 15 minutes between meetings or after a stressful day? With Spa after the rain, which has just closed its doors, there is indeed a market to open a massage center walk-in Geneva or elsewhere in Switzerland.
Operation: Find the local center and propose an hour, a relaxation room and other small massage treatments 15 minutes to relax amid the urban stress.
Initial Investment: High
Risk: Medium
Originality: ++++
Potential return: $$$

Fitness for the brain

The idea: Give Your Neurons teeth regularly is an exercise that improves brain potential. This gym for the brain is for everyone, but especially those with memory problems, logic, responsiveness or difficulty thinking.

Operation: Organize exercise sessions devoted to memory formation. Obviously, we have to work with neurologists and experts in education and training. It called brain gym "Cérébroscope" It is expected that by the end of the year in Paris.
Initial Investment: High
Risk: Medium
Originality: ++++
Potential return: $$$

The messengers delivered the appetizer

The idea: This application allows users to choose the products they want to be delivered to the cocktail hour: sausage, cheese, white wine, cold beer ...
Operation: The client's position is monitored by GPS and payments are made through your smartphone. The appero, which already exists in France, using bicycle messenger to send orders to customers within 45 minutes maximum (www.lappero.com).
Initial Investment: Low
Risk: Low
Originality: ++++
Potential return: $$

Dispose of containers ordered

The idea: With the new law on the rate of garbage in the canton of Vaud, households often kind of job are causing a buildup of waste in the kitchen or on the terrace. And offer a service ordinate garbage storage.
Operation: Build a website or a mobile application that offers the service in the form of monthly subscription, to search for the two containers or three times a week at home.
Initial Investment: Low
Risk: Low
Originality: ++++
Potential return: $$$

Home Garage Services

The idea: Instead of going to the garage, is you directly, either to change tires, make the service or other small repairs.
Operation: You must provide this service to garages or riding a site
Internet where you offer your services directly to customers.
Initial Investment: Low
Risk: Low
Originality: ++++
Potential return: $$$$

Car Rentals by Owner

The idea: Get an ecologically and economically by providing a site for private hire vehicle impact. Users will find a suitable vehicle for each use and avoid paying annual insurance costs, parking and other. As for the owners, they make money by renting your car.

Operation: Create an online platform in the form of social network that connects owners and users of vehicles. Take a commission for each transaction. The company launched the service 2EM last year (www.2em.ch).
Initial Investment: Medium
Risk: Low
Originality: +++
Potential return: $$

participatory Parking

Many travelers leave their cars sleep for days on airport car parks: the idea. Why not rent this vehicle the time of his absence to a passenger arriving at the airport and have a specific need. In the United States, FlightCar has raised $ 6.1 million with this concept that includes managing the availability of vehicles, insurance and even some drivers and parking valets when needed.
Operation: Copying type apartments Airbnb sharing sites, the business model is not riskier prospect FlightCar RC and other accidental damage of traditional landlords. The participation of airport authorities well in advance is essential in order to show the benefits of decongestion vis-à-vis the loss of traffic on parking tickets.
Investment: Medium
Risk: Medium
Originality: ++++
Yield: $$$

Online marketplace for artisans

The idea: To compete plumbers, electricians and painters, even for small jobs. In Germany MyHammer has created an online marketplace used by 1.5 million customers who post 250,000 artisans their job.
Status: free for customers MyHammer receives 6% of the bill of a craftsman only if it wins the contract. It entered into force in Switzerland in 2008, the agreement between cantons in the removal of technical barriers to trade promotes opportunities geographically expand the search area of said platform.
Investment: Medium
Risk: Low
Originality: +++
Yield: $$

Leisure / Tourism
Luxury yacht charter

The idea: offer luxury yachts for hire locals and tourists wishing to visit Geneva in optimal conditions. With a catering service including flowers and music.
Operation: Buy one or two boats and offer high-end rental clients five-star hotels, persons or companies. Among the difficulties to be expected: the vagaries of weather or find a mooring. This business gently begins to emerge in Switzerland.
Initial Investment: Very High
Risk: Medium
Originality: +++
Potential return: $$

Dogs hourly rental

The idea: Similar to what is done in the Grand-Saint-Bernard, USA and Tokyo, rent dogs for hours is ideal for parents who can not or will not acquire an animal house, but are eager to please turn the children for a walk. It also allows people who are reluctant to take the step to learn the benefits and limitations of having a dog.
Operation: Provide various breeds to choose for a vacation one hour to several days. You must be an animal lover and enjoy a great area to keep dogs. And check the various laws relating to their conditions of detention.
Initial Investment: Medium
Risk: Medium
Originality: +++
Potential return: $$

Personal shopper

The idea: The idea is not new but is still underdeveloped in Switzerland. The idea is to offer a professional look for services that accompany and advise people who want to improve their style.
Operation: The provision of services at major retailers or directly through its network of customers. There is also a consultant and trainer training image Western Switzerland (www.idsimagedesoi.com).
Initial Investment: Low
Risk: Low
Originality: +
Potential return: $$$

Internet / Mobile Applications
MOOCs for all

The idea: In Switzerland, almost no online courses to students or to teach cooking, video editing or fly fishing. In the United States, Skillshare platform is a card that niche courses that drain to 50,000 students. Each "master" bill your free course and the platform has a percentage. There is no French equivalent.
Operation: Creating an online platform is facilitated by the ability to use the resources on demand elastic computing cloud. We must identify the target audience and have a clear editorial line. And take special care to videos, and do not hesitate to resort to "star" teachers.
Investment: Medium
Risk: Medium
Originality: +++
Yield: $$$

Coordinate all loyalty cards

The idea: Every day, we face the fact of not having the loyalty card right at the time of self checkout. Therefore, your application meets them on your smartphone to avoid bursting the portfolio (see also www.fidall.com site).
Operation: Create a mobile application and scrutiny of all brands that offer loyalty cards to adhere to your project. Monetize your request by charging a subscription to signals and possibly offer them other services, including the ability to advertise the application to geotag their outlets, or customers can see private sales or Special Offers .
Initial Investment: Medium
Risk: Low
Originality: ++++
Potential return: $$$

Centralize all payments

The idea: A single card or a mobile scanner that automatically debit. This will pay your parking, public transport or business without taking tickets, the risk of losing them, etc. Whether you need cash, paper and no matter if one blows. The cards are easily recharged in many places.
Operation: very complicated because it would have agreements with all suppliers if the car parks, shops, public transport, but the potential and the stakes are high.
Initial Investment: High
Risks: Raised
Originality: ++++
Potential return: $$$

A taxi quickly

The idea: to create a mobile application for quickly and easily order a taxi. The taxi is thanks to geolocation, as exists the Canadian TAG taxi (www.tag-taxi.com).
Operation: Sell this application and enable users to evaluate the taxi (courtesy, cleanliness, behavior) and specify your needs (child seats, the number of passengers, luggage, etc).
Initial Investment: Medium
Risk: Low
Originality: ++++
Potential return: $$$

Keep your pet during the holidays

The idea: to offer an alternative to pensions and Kennels through application to easily and quickly find a foster home for animals during the journey of the holder.
Operation: Create a website that allows owners to find a petsitter close to home. You can see the data sheets for each goal, photos and reviews by former guests who have already used. Already established in France and Belgium, Holidog (www.holidog.com)
now US orientation.
Initial Investment: Low
Risk: Low
Originality: +++
Potential return: $$$

Shared between private cellars

The idea: The best bottles are often in special warehouses. Therefore, the platform looks like a big cave individuals grouped in that trade and friendship transactions are facilitated.
Operation: Each visitor can partially or completely visible and therefore put their bottles of wine direct sale or auction. Buyers can also be the seller. The website Cavacave already exists in France (www.cavacave.fr) and want displayed in other countries.
Initial Investment: Low
Risk: Low
Originality: ++++
Potential return: $$$

finance
Solidarity loans

The idea: To provide a platform for loans between individuals that prevents applicants to go through banks or financial assistance to beg his entourage.
Operation: Applicants submit your project, determine the loan amount, the collection period and repayment duration. The platform manages all phases of the refund. This concept already exists in other countries (www.hellomerci.com, www.kisskissbank-bank.com), but is not well developed in Switzerland.
Initial Investment: Low
Risk: Low
Originality: ++
Potential return: $$$

Advice on new banking rules

The idea: The new regulatory rules have changed significantly since the last four years, the idea is to offer an advisory service on the new provisions, including those required by FATCA agreement, the IRS, or Swiss financial services law planned for 2015/2016 .
Operation: You are totally independent and inform managers about the new regulatory standards. A young start-up just to see the day in Geneva (www.deboccard.ch).
Initial Investment: Low
Risk: Low
Originality: +++
Potential return: $$$$

Bank 2.0

The idea: All banks have a deal online. However, the benefit to the customer is still low. In the US, the Bank has invented a simple model that makes customers some of the productivity gains generated by switching to online banking. For example: no interest in an overdraft up to the amount of savings deposited by the customer. It went from zero to more than one billion transactions annually.
Operation: Simple is a fully online bank that has reduced costs to the extreme by building his model in information technology. In the United States and Switzerland, the regulation constitutes a barrier to entry, but was partially offset by masses of capital looking to invest in financial technologies or fintechs.
Investment: High
Risks: Raised
Originality: +++
Potential return: $$$$$

robotics VC

The idea: With the falling price of components and scheduling of progress, a new generation of service robots out of the lab and begins to attract investors as the French entrepreneur Bruno Bonnell or Internet Rey Russian Dmitry Grishin.
Operation: Robotic eng blow of a low-ROI. The role of venture capitalist specializing in this area is still vacant in Switzerland, despite the quality of research shot, demand for industrial relocation, and the appearance of robots staff Market (telepresence services for home or nurses ).
Investment: High average
Risks: Raised
Originality: +++++
Potential return: $$$$

industry
Operator rail freight

The idea of European rail liberalization, technological advances locomotives capable of operating on any network and trucks inflation create a unique opportunity for a private market entry of rail freight date controlled by state monopolies.
Based in Hungary, AWT is a major cargo operators appeared on the market, while in Germany Railpool specializes in leasing crazy as what is done with aircraft
Operation: Ideally located in the heart of Europe with the opening of the rail base tunnel Gotthard end of 2016, Switzerland was intended to give birth to new operators of rail freight. Business demand is strong, but will be very important to take care of the financial arrangements for the amounts that are anything but trivial.
Initial Investment: High
Risks: Raised
Originality: ++++
Potential return: $$$

Make the car easier to maintain

The idea: Create a new automaker that takes into account the ease of maintenance of electric cars. We target a specific customer segment: the mass of artisans, farmers and other supporters who selfgarages as Crissier repair themselves, but your vehicle
You can do more for the electronics installed by manufacturers who make it inevitable step into the garage.
Operation: In the model of what is Ikea, why not create the car, if not self-assembly, at least to maintain and repair itself? While explodes and do-it-yourself Slimming Internet and order replacement dissemination of technical knowledge, the market seems ripe for a radically innovative model in the automotive world.
Investment: High
Risks: Raised
Originality: +++++
Potential return: $$$$

Develop applications for Glass

The idea: The arrival of augmented reality glasses Google Glass before the end of the year is likely to create an ecosystem of dedicated applications. The application areas abound, of DapperVision, wearing the glasses camera to provide audio information for people with visual disabilities to Psyclops, the first game information increases the physical world.
Operation: Google opened the functioning of its programming interface mirror to a first group of developers. Chosen by lot, they have created for $ 1.500 based services on the web. Now, the company is preparing an Android-based kit. This should help get glasses from other developers as rumor for the commercial launch of glass Christmas becomes more insistent.
Investment: Low
Risk: Low
Originality: ++
Potential return: $$

3D subcontractor

The idea: As soon as one leaves the plastic prosthesis as 3D printing, custom jewelry or industrial components requires investment in printers for ceramics or metals ranging from 20 000 to 500 000 francs. Hence the need for subcontractors may overlap these investments in volume.
Operation: Given the necessary capital, it is important to target based printing system selected markets. The rules are the same for biocompatible dental materials and printing spare parts for an old car. Do not forget that if 3D printing gives more freedom to designers, the parties also require finishing working.
Investment: High
Risk: Low
Originality: +++
Potential return: $$$$
"It is important to study the market if you have a failure"
Pascal Bourgier, coach GENILEM, an association whose mission is to help budding entrepreneurs, offers some advice.

What advice would you give to anyone thinking of starting a business?

First, it is important to study the market, and it was nice to have the best idea in the world if the market is not ready for it, it will fail. We analyze how to enter the market and know its size, which, among other things, financial forecasts.

Then I advised to work on his MVP (minimum viable product, a prototype of your product / service) and sell in the state to quickly see the market reaction, even if it means not at all successful. We must also develop a maximum time (at least 40%) customers perspective. And do not forget to put in place an effective cash management.

Finally, I recommend especially well surrounded, entrepreneurship is a complex and delicate adventure that should not be done alone. However, I suggest to concentrate customer financing (sale of products) instead of using a fundraiser to boot.

What is the profile of people who want to go?

There is no age to start, but at age 20, you do not have the same family for 40 years. However, there is no generality. For example, we find GENILEM mothers, forties, career transition and young people still in school or just finishing high school.

What are the promising sectors today?

These are all related to sustainable development, ecology in general and disclosure. There are also projects related to human services and of course the internet related, such as the development of mobile applications of all kinds. Upcoming projects related to the sale of products manufactured or imported.

To start your business, call business angels or support organizations. You can find a non-exhaustive list of bilan.ch.