Comments on: Share your ideas with others http://www.techfounder.net/2008/06/02/free-your-mind-and-success-will-follow/ Blog about web development and Internet entrepreneurship Wed, 03 Mar 2010 01:05:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Eran Galperin http://www.techfounder.net/2008/06/02/free-your-mind-and-success-will-follow/comment-page-1/#comment-39 Eran Galperin Wed, 04 Jun 2008 21:41:53 +0000 http://www.techfounder.net/?p=43#comment-39 Hi Steven, I hope you didn't take my post as offensive, I didn't call you or anybody with no (web) start-up experience "kids", I was just referring to what I see often and also read in your post in people who have no such experience - they are reluctant to share their ideas for fear of IP theft. Again, I'm referring to web startups, since the web is a different medium than traditional high-tech industry. I have to respectably disagree with most of what you said. If you share your idea with enough people, you will get great feedback eventually. Or you could consider the accumulated knowledge as "great feedback". An entrepreneur who presumes he knows everything there is to know about his intended market is only fooling himself. Only through experimenting and getting feedbacks on the ideas and implementation can true market knowledge be obtained. And last, the greatest challenge to any successful startup will not be his competition - but itself, and it will be to maintain the passion and continually hiring the best people. If you follow through on your vision and have the support of great people behind you, you will succeed regardless of your competition. Hi Steven,
I hope you didn’t take my post as offensive, I didn’t call you or anybody with no (web) start-up experience “kids”, I was just referring to what I see often and also read in your post in people who have no such experience – they are reluctant to share their ideas for fear of IP theft. Again, I’m referring to web startups, since the web is a different medium than traditional high-tech industry.

I have to respectably disagree with most of what you said. If you share your idea with enough people, you will get great feedback eventually. Or you could consider the accumulated knowledge as “great feedback”.

An entrepreneur who presumes he knows everything there is to know about his intended market is only fooling himself. Only through experimenting and getting feedbacks on the ideas and implementation can true market knowledge be obtained.

And last, the greatest challenge to any successful startup will not be his competition – but itself, and it will be to maintain the passion and continually hiring the best people. If you follow through on your vision and have the support of great people behind you, you will succeed regardless of your competition.

]]> By: Steven Carroll http://www.techfounder.net/2008/06/02/free-your-mind-and-success-will-follow/comment-page-1/#comment-38 Steven Carroll Mon, 02 Jun 2008 06:58:12 +0000 http://www.techfounder.net/?p=43#comment-38 Hi Eran A few points. And just for the record a) I'm the one who disagrees (link above) b) I'm no kid "with no start-up experience", on the contrary I have built a company from a £20K overdraft - £2M turnover. So a few points: 1) sharing your ideas is not going to get you great feedback, you either know your market or you don't, others will tell you that the idea sucks, Thomas Khun structure of scientific revolutions. 2) a great entrepreneur can of course go in many directions, that all depends on his idea, while some ideas are good enough to be successful, others can become multi million ventures. Choose the wrong path and you will condemn yourself to mediocre success at best. (Some markets are just better than others.) 3) the greatest challenge to any successful startup will become his competition, again you may not agree, but here is my article about such problems that can arise: thenextweb.org/2008/05/24/david-vs-goliath-the-underhand-tactics-of-competition/ Best of luck with those free ideas. Steve Hi Eran

A few points. And just for the record a) I’m the one who disagrees (link above) b) I’m no kid “with no start-up experience”, on the contrary I have built a company from a £20K overdraft – £2M turnover.

So a few points:
1) sharing your ideas is not going to get you great feedback, you either know your market or you don’t, others will tell you that the idea sucks, Thomas Khun structure of scientific revolutions.

2) a great entrepreneur can of course go in many directions, that all depends on his idea, while some ideas are good enough to be successful, others can become multi million ventures. Choose the wrong path and you will condemn yourself to mediocre success at best. (Some markets are just better than others.)

3) the greatest challenge to any successful startup will become his competition, again you may not agree, but here is my article about such problems that can arise: thenextweb.org/2008/05/24/david-vs-goliath-the-underhand-tactics-of-competition/

Best of luck with those free ideas.

Steve

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