Who starts which
Start where you are sitting
The five hundred are organised by trade because the mechanism is the point. But readers are organised by where they are sitting, so here is the same list read the other way.
If you are in Colombo with a skill and no capital
Clusters 2, 7, 15 and 24 are yours: the making, the photography, the copywriting, the booking platforms, the software, the verified review. Every one of them is a...
90 ideas in 4 clustersIf you are in the districts with land, a craft, or a kitchen
Clusters 1, 2, 5, 6, 8, 10, 11, 13 and 14, and the Sil section. The homestay, the workshop, the retreat, the fifteen things from the nut, the estate's own tea, the...
200 ideas in 10 clustersIf you are abroad with money
Clusters 1, 4, 6, 8, 12, 13 and 21 are the ones that need capital before they need anything else: the lodges, the balloon, the roastery, the processing plant, the...
145 ideas in 7 clustersIf you are abroad with a network and no money
You are the customer, the quality inspector and the distributor for clusters 3, 5, 6, 10, 11 and 18, and for everything in Sri Lanka House. The single most valuable...
150 ideas in 7 clustersIf you are a woman who has been told there is no work
Cluster 23 was written for you, and half of the rest of the list can be run from a kitchen table with a phone.
15 ideas in 1 clustersIf you are coming home
All of it, and cluster 28 first. The country has never lacked people who can do these things. It has lacked people who have seen them done to the world's standard and...
500 ideas in 28 clusters