I came across this excellent talk on TED entitled "Where good ideas come from - Steven Johnson" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqj0sgrNL10 This is a must listen and most of all the punchline " Chance favours the connected minds". Enjoy ... all the same avoid the 3 monoliths. David Kiania On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 11:17 AM, Edwin Kaduki <kaduki@edwinkaduki.com> wrote:
I've come to the conclusion that for a business to be successful, one needs to partner with people that have strengths that you don't have. That is, unless you can combine technical ability with business savvy. Very few of us have that combination of skills. It's interesting seeing how guys with inferior products are able to make a business out of them, while guys with superior products wait and wait for clients to smell the coffee. As someone said, that's why there's a best SELLING author.... not a best WRITING author.. That means that for all our good ideas, only the ones executed well count. So if the queen bee/ someone else stole your idea, it's a sad state of affairs, but maybe your idea would not have grown into a successful business anyway.
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 10:38 AM, Joseph McDonald <mcdonaldoj@gmail.com> wrote:
Mwinamo is very right.
Everyone can have an idea....but to transform an Idea into a product that people can buy or you can sell is quite a challenge.
Transforming an idea into a product is a process,mastering this process can make the difference.
The Business Incubators around e.g Ihub,Nailab......can help most start-ups ,if they train them on product development and marketing technological ideas.
Thanks
On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 9:58 AM, Gitonga Eric <gitonga@egmgem.com> wrote:
IP law talk at iHub on Thursday: http://bit.ly/f0UaJw
On 11/29/10, Joram Mwinamo <joram.mwinamo@gmail.com> wrote:
On the flipside of all this, it then means that people in this market primarily sell "ideas" and not products or services that have been patented and trademarked. It also shows that the ideas are easily replicated or copied which means the technical work behind the ideas is no rocket science. Also if someone has not gone through the process of trademarking or patenting, it means they dont really think their idea would pass the test?
Therefore(three dots) it clearly follows that people need to set up companies that sell Products or services that are superior to anything in the market and implemented in a way that there are high barriers to entry for any other players.The only problem is that such products take lots of time, energy, money and technical expertise to put together.Do we have the patience?
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