Virtual Entrepreneur

Unusual Business Ideas That Work:
Imagine turning an idea you hatched during your morning shower into a $5 million business – in just 3 years. That is precisely how Don McNeill, the Wilmington, Delaware, inventor of You’ve Been Sentenced, conceived of his now wildly popular board game for kids ages 8 and up, which uses a deck of 540 pentagon-shaped cards to come up with ingenious and hilarious sentences.

‘I started with an idea, one investor and $50,000, which was just enough to pay the bills,’ says McNeill, 43. ‘My daughter drew the prototype on her computer, and I called people I knew from a 20-year career selling commercial printing and gave them one-quarter of 1% of the company to help me produce the game.’

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