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What to do with your ideas for other people (sethgodin.typepad.com)
8 points by bdfh42 on Dec 10, 2008 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



"If you're unable to be in that position, my best advice is that you blog the ideas. At least you'll get them out of your system and get bragging rights if anything ever happens."

I agree that blogging the idea would be good, but not for bragging rights. It establishes a date and proof that it was in fact your idea.

Some ideas can only be executed by large corporations, accessing the right people within those corps (and not getting ripped off) is a problem we should all work on.


That will also give other people interested in the idea a way to contact you.


If someone has great ideas for a big company that are valuable, then that same someone should be able to come up with ideas for a small company or a startup that are an order of magnitude even more valuable. Start helping those small companies and startups and build a portfolio to take to the big companies.


"The quality of ideas is not a factor in whether or not you will be in a position to have a chance to sell those ideas."

This is why you need a sales guy, an idea guy and a hacker.


Or rather someone who can hack, someone who can sell, and someone with ideas (there can be overlap between them).




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