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I have a confession: the older I get, the less impressed I am by business ideas that require a twelve-minute explanation, a pitch deck full of arrows, and an audience willing to pretend the phrase “revolutionary ecosystem” means something. Give me a business I can explain before the elevator doors close. You have pests. I remove them. Your books are a mess. I organize them. Your grass keeps growing. I keep cutting it. Your trucks get dirty. I wash them. Your tenants have problems. I handle them so you do not have to. None of that will make a venture capitalist spill a cold brew in excitement. There is no artificial-intelligence-powered toaster, no social network for introverted ferrets, and no app promising to “disrupt” an industry that was functioning perfectly well before somebody added a monthly software fee. These are ordinary services solving ordinary problems for people who will have those same problems again next month. That last part is the entire point. The five ideas highligh...