While in college, one of my roommates came up with a great business idea.  What he noticed was that a lot of students have problems writing their dissertations and usually not enough time to do them.  He figured that he could do them a service (and make some money) if he could provide them with a way to solve this problem.

After little bit of research, he decided that he should offer custom term papers for any class that a student required.  It would be a fee-based service, based on the word count and research required to write the thesis.  This sounded all well and good, but he had to figure out some way to advertise his service without alerting the faculty.

It ended up that he devised a tactic to advertise his business and stay away from the prying eyes of the University.  I’ll go into any details here, but it ended up being a very lucrative business for him, and paid his way through college.

He continued to business after college and now has ghostwriters to do the writing for him.  He is definitely one of the smartest business minds that I know.