If your answer to the above question is no - please go watch a rerun on TV and ask your mother to heat-up some of that leftover meatloaf you love - there is nothing I will write here that will be of any interest to you whatsoever.
Now for the living amongst you…,
I am always excited by any new or innovative idea - even if I personally have no ability or interest in doing anything about it. For example, why not make jellybeans that are shaped more like raisins than beans? You can market them as “jellybuttons” (you know – like bellybuttons) – if kids like them, branch out into other body parts. Now, I’ve always liked that idea, but I have no interest in doing anything about it.
Striking a lot closer to home professionally, I am always coming across (what I think are) great opportunities in the technology space – most often through friends who complain about some company’s poor execution (“if I were in their shoes, I would…”) or from colleagues passionate about the changes they are seeing (“don’t you see what this means!? Now we will be able to…”). …and for the most part, I have no ability or interest in doing anything about them.
Until now.
I am going to use this PreEmptive platform as a clearing house for (potentially) great ideas looking for a good home. Of course, I hope readers will comment on the ideas I am able to toss out – but I also hope I will inspire a few others to share similar sparks of inspiration that might make a difference in someone else’s hands – I am a big believer that innovation breeds more innovation – so why keep good ideas locked up if you aren’t prepared to do anything with them? – we all suffer when that happens.
So, as a guiding principle, let me suggest that our ideas don’t have to be original – they only have to be great - lets find good homes for those great ideas before it’s too late (think of what happens to cute puppies if they are not adopted from the animal shelter in time).
Tags: entrepreneurship, innovation, opportunity