He's not the only starry - eyed doofus who has combined delusions of grandeur with total cluelessness about the effort required to actually write a novel or screenplay and then get it in front of the public.In the thread of the same post at Writer Beware, children's author Kathleen Duey talked about the unsolicited - plot -
idea people who want to share the profits 50/50.
He started out as a non-technical entrepreneur until he spoke to Drop.io's founder Sam Lessin, who said: «
Idea people who can't code have to relay their vision to others, and part of the vision inevitably gets lost in translation.
Not exact matches
Within a year, they had eight
people, largely acquaintances
who believed in the
idea and were willing to wait for future rewards.
Strange Success is about
people who come up with crazy
ideas to solve a problems you may not even realize exist.
Here's the story of ordinary
people who fell into big
ideas and took them all the way to the bank.
We have no shortage of
ideas, of
people who want to build things, or have directions we could go.
People with roles such as account planner, a strategic thinker
who brings in consumer research, and account manager,
who looks after the relationship with the client, will also be involved in a process that can take several weeks or even months before any
ideas are shown to a client.
Here's the basic
idea:
People who are strapped for time but want to make their own home - cooked food can sign up to receive three meals a week that will come in either two, four, or six -
person portions.
I noticed a couple of names
who started their small business out with an
idea and a dream, and now they're globally recognized names with a product and a service that have positively impacted
people's lives everywhere.
Carrots and sticks are fine, but when you violate
who we are as
people, when you challenge our pride, when you don't respect what we need... the quality of your
idea doesn't really matter.
In my research into how to build lasting, breakthrough
ideas, it became clear that having a group of ambassadors — a group of
people who believe in carrying your message forward — is critical to your success.
I want to back the
people best positioned to successfully invest in tomorrow's groundbreaking
ideas — and they're not always the
people who successfully invested in yesterday's.
And
people who come up with great
ideas get justifiably frustrated when they see lousy
ideas getting just as much attention.
People who aren't afraid to be different naturally stretch boundaries and challenge the status quo, and they often come up with the best
ideas.
And we've even got someone here
who knows how to get your
ideas out there, and make sure that when
people talk about [mobile / content / SaaS / analytics / tacocopters] they'll be talking about you.
At my company, we're firm believers that the
person who's been here the longest doesn't necessarily have the best
idea.
There's a great deal to be gleaned from
people who have actually done what you're hoping to do rather than from newbies
who are inventing their «careers» as they roll along, hoping at the same time to get their businesses built and scaled before they run out of time, cheap money or good
ideas.
«Do you know that one of the great problems of our age is that we are governed by
people who care more about feelings than they do about thoughts and
ideas?»
It's the
idea of only hiring likeable
people who would make you want to come into the office and hang out if they were working on a Sunday.
How many really intelligent and accomplished
people do you know
who have great
ideas, but hate writing?
There are hundreds of
people who may have had a similar
idea as the one you are currently thinking about, but failed to execute.
As a CEO, I refuse to lead a company where
people may feel their
ideas aren't valued simply because of
who they are.
But what matters most, says Roberts,
who came to Venrock in 1997, just after earning a Ph.D. in chemistry and chemical - biology from Harvard, isn't that «brilliant
idea» that launched the company — but rather the brilliant
person who's leading it.
On the other side are the
people who hate Apple and everything it stands for, such as the
idea of closed products created behind a veil of secrecy that are usually sold at a premium.
We need
people who have
ideas.
Feld says he's looking for
people who can help him turn this
idea into a movement.
And while this has largely benefited residents of Silicon Valley,
who have immediate admission into a row of venture capitalists, on a macroeconomic scale, this has proven to be inefficient, as the majority of
people with
ideas and talent do not have admittance into this elitist group.
Great
ideas are a dime a dozen, goes the argument; what's scarce is
people who can execute on them.
«The CFPB's structure is based on the
idea that government is unlimited and rights are dependent on the special dispensation of the experts
who know better than the American
people,» Republican Sens. Ben Sasseof Nebraska and Mike Leeof Utah wrote in a recent letter to the White House.
But Max is like many
people in your organization
who could have the next big
idea by making waves.
Brett Berish, President & CEO of Luc Belaire says, «We believe in the power of a great
idea and we're excited to support creative projects and the
people behind them
who are determined to make their dreams a reality.
Blackwell sees a lot of
people who never make it to the finish line with their
idea because they haven't done their research.
People who believed in their
ideas had access to both private and public capital to make their dreams into reality.
Without that, the best
ideas will be overlooked or wasted on
people who will never respond.
Successful
people challenge themselves by trying new things, exposing themselves to different cultures and
ideas, and surrounding themselves with
people who think differently.
This one's easy, your goal is not to be the smartest
person in the room, it's to learn from those
who have more experience, creative
ideas, and bring a new perspective.
To successfully cultivate a team of
people who are actively identifying and developing innovative
ideas, a company's leaders must openly support innovation activities.
Test the
idea with the only
people who really matter: the ones
who are going to cut you a cheque for it.
Susan Cain, TED speaker and author of Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking, cites research conducted by Adam Grant at the Wharton School
who found that introverted leaders often get better results, compared with extroverts, because the latter can unwittingly squelch creativity by not giving up the reins and letting
people run with their own
ideas.
The
idea of a successful human being, and a successful entrepreneur and a happy
person, is a
person who responds to things when things change,
who flows along the opportunity that is presented and then reviews the plans and continues to evolve and improve.
There are plenty of
people who buy into
ideas like radical transparency and complete information sharing or participatory management at all levels.
You have no
idea how lucky you are that I'm not your boss, because I would fire you all, take apart your union, and re-hire
people who would work for half your wages.
It's easy to discriminate against the minority cobbler down the street by traveling a few extra blocks to buy from «your own kind»; it's much harder to act out your racist biases when buying shoes at a big department store because, well, you have no
idea what colour or sex or sexual orientation of the
person who made those shoes is.
«Many great
ideas have been lost because the
people who had them could not stand being laughed at.»
«Even those
people who have the good
ideas, they hold back sometimes,» says Cole.
They get together with a team of
people who are passionate and if they can sell us on the
idea, we'll give them the resources.
Baunach was one of the
people who pushed to create Jumpstart, a nonprofit organization in Cleveland focused on helping
idea - stage tech companies get access to funds and resources in order to grow.
Even if you have all the conviction in the world, there are few things more nerve wracking than trying to convince
people who can help you take your
idea to great heights that they want to be in business with you.
Perhaps for this reason, many
people who invest in start - ups tend to favor companies that are based on small, executable
ideas over grand strategies like Martian colonization or the resurrection of the electric car.
The
idea is to recruit
people to your board
who align and support the business and
who can also help make key introductions for the company and to key users of the company's products or services.