You want to build the next big thing? The good news is that it's not beyond your skills and capabilities if you truly believe you have something great to offer the world. The bad news is that most ...
Scooped by Martin (Marty) Smith |
This is a great list and the piece starts with great quotes. I've started 4 companies. The biggest generated more than $16M in specialty gift sales and put products you may know into our popular lexicon (Magnetic Poetry Kit, Zen Board now Buddha Board).
One idea I use to find the next thing to work on is creating a thought experiment. Thought experiments always start with a question. Last night I worked on an idea sparked by an interesting question from my tenure as an Ecommerce Director:
Q:
Is there a way to TEST before spending money?
Quirky.com and Threadless harness the power of crowds to only product ideas with enough built in Day One support success is all but assured.
My question was about how to create a process requiring little investment in time or capital that could help reduce the risk of any capial spent.
I was able to answer that question in the affirmative and hope to share the idea soon (still in the could tell you but then would have to kill you stage :).
¿Quieres ser el próximo en construir algo grande? En el artículo podrás ver hasta 80 formas para encontrar tu Big Startup idea.
Let's go !