Monday, June 30, 2008

Did you ever laugh at a new idea?

Did you ever laugh at a new idea? Come on…tell the truth! You laughed, thought it was crazy or stupid or whatever, and today, you wish you had thought of it yourself.

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Posted by: David on 06/30 at 09:19 AM
Tagged: idea, innovative
(3) Comments • Permalink

  1. On the other hand, quite often you see really, really dumb ideas getting flooded with investment money, and you wonder to yourself if ideas must be truly stupid to convince VCs and investors to invest. (Or do you simply need to make bold, audacious and completely improbable/impossible claims, that make investors are too nervous to ignore you). ...and then 2 or 3 years later, you find your initial thoughts justified, when yet again another startup company with a dumb idea tanks, often after never even making it into production, and taking the investments down with it.

    Posted by Stephen  on  2008-07-02 05:16:01

  2. Coyote (and Roadrunner) and ACME. Breaks me up, big time! Real break-through ideas have a similar effect. Bit more sublime. Steps in between can be a bit tedious, quite a bit. But who cares. Tedious is penance for not working it out sooner and simpler. Tom.

    Posted by Tom Osborn  on  2008-07-02 12:01:55

  3. As always -- the truth is always somewhere in the middle -- lots of ideas that sounded funny were in fact dumb -- its part of the game to figure it out

    Posted by david sable  on  2008-07-02 14:45:10

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