The manner of gesturing, the highly mobile facial expressions and the fire in his eyes betrayed the emotion of this still young man. Those who know how to talk about a person by their appearance and behavior would note that the one-day stubble, although it does not spoil it, nevertheless received a day off from the razor. Jeans are dressed only because they are practical, and a badge fastened to a shirt is useless under the jacket's hollow jacket. Those who listen to him can say that this young man is embraced by the idea, he believes in it and believes that it must become successful. An expert in a venture capital company would say that he is just one of many whose “ideas per million” only shine without being gold. And someone who does not stand out at all will say in a couple of decades, giving an interview in his leather chair, that a good idea necessarily comes in several goals at the same time, and modestly notice how glad he was that he managed to go through a thorny path before achieving today's success. But he will never tell anyone where he overheard the idea.

The article will be primarily interesting to those who introduced themselves in the place of this still young man, and secondly to those who read a small sketch with a smile.

I want to share the experience that I have comprehended and will present in the form of short conclusions. So to speak, laconicism in sisters talent! I am sure that here you will not find the absolute truth, therefore I will be sincerely glad to your opinions, how I will be glad if the reader remains grateful for the topic.

About Ideas

An idea is the first (and often only) asset of a future entrepreneur. It’s like a golden egg with which you want to rush, to hint to everyone about it, but not to share it with anyone, otherwise you never mind ... All sane people understand that before you can start sharing the skin of a killed bear, you need to develop a business model, implement the idea into a working service (let's call a service everything where you can get a service) by interacting with a lot of people, showing the right qualities in the right places and if you're lucky, etc. etc. The rest will say that I just need a good programmer / designer / seamstress / guitarist (underline as necessary) and start-up capital. That is, it seems like you have to share an egg with someone ...
It seems to me that you need to share the idea without fear of losing it, because you can find like-minded people to create a team, you can exchange the idea to participate in the project to gain invaluable experience, you can get useful criticism and add some more sparkle to your idea. The attentive reader will rightly remind me of the leather chair and its owner and will be right because I have not read the next paragraph yet.
The idea arises in the process of consuming some information. It does not matter at what stage, at the time of consumption, or lying on the couch, or suddenly, interrupting sleep. For some, they are born more often, for others less often, but this process is repeated. I do not want to delve into the concepts of creativity and how to deal with it purposefully. I just want to draw the reader’s attention to the fact that even if you lose it in the process of turning an idea into a business, you still have the most effective long-term asset - the experience gained, as well as new information and new horizons for activity. Thus, you are in the black.

About work

You have to work hard for the idea to turn into success. It can even please, but not burden. Then I propose to start working without violating the confidentiality of my idea. You can get a job in a company that correlates with your idea, and study the kitchen and pitfalls. You can read literature to dive into the topic, just as you decided to work hard to read this article. Finally, find your future competitors and evaluate their strengths and weaknesses (although the idea implies some novelty, so there should be no direct competitors). Find out as much as possible about them. All this forms the movement of your personality and your idea forward. It makes life interesting and, once you look back, you can catch yourself thinking that you don’t remember when your idea grew from that funny and timid at the very beginning into what you are doing now.
By working on an idea, you absorb information. And this is fraught with new ideas, they can be written in a notebook, because now you are busy, and you will deal with them later. For example, I have a notebook, which I called “Idea heap”, and it suffers from me everything - at any time of the day or night. You are acquiring new necessary acquaintances that increase your opportunities. Here you are also in the black.

About the time

Ideas are mortal. In general, there are many conditions necessary for the life of an idea. She needs to work hard, communicate with someone, study something, and still, over time, she may die. It can even be argued that an idea has an expiration date. This gastronomic property needs to be clarified.
First, the world may not be ready for your idea. Yes, you and some of your friends are ready for it, but for sure you are guided by a larger target audience. Finally, if the world is ready to respond to your idea with its attention and participation, this means that the idea is obvious enough for anyone else to take up. These are common truths about which it was important to say.
And now I ask the reader to remember my notebook. If you have more ideas than time to deal with them, you have to put them off the bat. Or perhaps there is not enough knowledge to implement it. And after a year, looking through the news, you find a project with an unusual name that repeats your idea. I am sincerely sure that such a situation is unacceptable. You have a lottery ticket that you can play, but if you can not play it yourself, then give it to another. And this is not a pure patronage of arts. Putting an idea on display, you say about yourself: "I am a smart little guy, I am sharing this project with you, because now I am doing much more delicious." Intelligent small and smart big always attract the attention of people with resources. Thus, it is important to announce the idea on time and subscribe to it with your name in order to put yourself a plus in this paragraph.

Instead of a conclusion

Finally, the most dramatic end is possible, in which there is a disappointment in the idea, but no one took away all the pluses mentioned above. It remains only to wait (or work out) a new idea for a new adventure. And for this, someone needs to consume more information, someone to lie on the sofa, and someone to give in to dreams.

I wish you all a successful week!

PS The writing was also influenced by Edward De Bono's book, Serious Creative Thinking.

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