Posts Tagged ‘innovative’

Monday, June 30th, 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.

  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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 ...
Monday, June 23rd, 2008

Where do ideas come from?

Where do ideas come from? Who owns them? Are anyone’s ideas really unique? Can we catalyze for great ideas? Can we really create good new ones?

At first glance, what do you think?