What had
started as an idea for a music app that would make it easier for BlackBerry owners to listen to music on their devices, had to be downgraded to a mere chat service while Kik waited on licensing deals.
I never envisioned this blog to be where it is today - What
started as an idea from my sister back in June, spiralled into a huge passion today - Something I look forward to working on and being a part of the community on a day to day basis.
Initially this project
started as an idea: What would Arsenal look like if they were actually an F1 team?
Wilful North
started as an idea in my placement year from university when I was interning with a milliner in Hebden Bridge.
The #TalkEarly program
started as an idea that conversations about alcohol need to happen before alcohol even presents itself directly to kids, often middle school aged.
What
started as an idea to keep homeless people warm during colder months has become a project that is empowering homeless individuals to take better care of themselves and their loved ones.
Some wraps
start as an idea, like «Let's do a wrap to celebrate birth!»
HCR Commissioner RuthAnne Visnauskas said: «What
started as an idea to supply small and mid-sized food service distributors with private label spices and ingredients has become a classic business success story.
What has now become one of the most well - known dating sites in this special niche
started as an idea Sonny had in the middle of the night.
Speaking to Business Insider, Alper spoke about the viral success of the app, which
started as an idea for a comedy sketch and became serious after the entrepreneur discovered a study that said people «bond over the things they hate more strongly than over the things they love».
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It started as an idea on how to get data back in a much shorter cycle.
It started as an idea to revamp After the Writing, the freebie I created about technical aspects of producing an ebook after Living with Intent.
It started as an idea, that next amazing thing your team is going to do.
The Lulu Scholarship
started as an idea from our Marketing team.
What
started as an idea in one hospice in Tulsa is changing the face of hospice care by including pets as family and giving patients the peace they need to say goodbye.
What
started as an idea to fill a need for special needs education in Mexico, soon uncovered a huge need on Isla Mujeres, Mexico.
Lunch with Legends
started as an idea after reading Napoleon Hill's famed 1928 publication, The Law of Success.»
Some projects, like Lex Machina,
started as an idea of a faculty member (in this case, Mark Lemley).
Think about some of the fastest growing brands in the world: Uber, WhatsApp, Spotify —
these started as ideas about how travel, communication and music could be delivered in a more effective way and each have disrupted large industries.
Not exact matches
After thinking through all these things about the business you're considering
starting, do you still feel
as good about the
idea as before?
One, it
started out
as a technology phenomenon: Silicon Valley, high - tech companies with the fruit - fly incubator for this
idea.
The
idea behind the campaign is to engage and work with lawmakers in Washington, D.C. —
as well
as those in other states — to get them to
start listening to small business owners, and do something about reversing this tide of increasing regulations.
«All great
ideas start as weird
ideas.
The
idea of trend hunting
started out
as an insurgency on the edge of the staid, respectable market research industry.
Putting your
ideas on paper
as a client will help you solidify your thoughts and if working on a larger project,, like a new website,
starting here can help give you a good
idea of the UX (user experience) which is a integral part of the design process.
Y Combinator itself has put out a list of types of startups it would like to see apply to the program (many of them stunningly ambitious), my Inc.com colleague Bill Murphy, Jr. has even uncovered a truly monster list of 1,001 business
ideas (though many of them, such
as a toothbrush holder with actually big enough holes, are probably not going to make you billions), and I've personally rounded up even smaller business
ideas that you can
start without so much
as a spare $ 100 in the bank.
Ask for
ideas on your Facebook page,
start a discussion on Twitter, solicit their feedback with surveys in the bag
as they leave.
Don't be discouraged if your first
idea doesn't work — everyone
starts out
as a beginner.
And
as you peel back that social conditioning around the
idea that admitting you have a beauty routine must mean you're frivolous or maybe shouldn't be taken too seriously, you
start to realize almost every woman has something to say — «Actually, I've been using this same mascara for 10 years, and it's the most amazing product.
As Hoffman did, CEOs can
start by rethinking what they've done in the past and trying one new
idea at a time.
As you
start implementing new
ideas, you may need to change course.
So
as the
idea developed, about 6 months after doing this kind of exploration where we'd meet continually with a whole bunch of different people, industry thinkers and stuff, it became clear that we could actually
start a company around this and we could build the world's first social magazine.
As Bezos notes (
starting at about the 4:30 mark of his fireside chat, embedded below): «The big
ideas in business are often very obvious.
For example, when I had the
idea for
starting Soundwise, a mobile platform for audio courses, I researched around keywords such
as podcast, audiobook and e-learning.
As promised, here is an excerpt from my very own personal journal to give you a good
idea on how to get
started:
Letting two domains of knowledge that are usually alien to each other mix and mingle is a sure fire way to get your brain humming, so the
idea of applying the thinking of anthropology to the world of
start - ups isn't
as strange
as it appears at first blush.
What
started as a niche concept just a few years ago has become a large - scale and viable way for people to invest directly in promising
ideas, which creates a new pool of funding while allowing small investors to reap the financial rewards of contributing to successful ventures.
Making wine
started as just an
idea, but it's become a lot more than we ever imagined.
The
idea for Hater
started as one of those sketches.
What
started as a fun
idea has turned into something much bigger, exceeding even the track's highest expectations.
Watch this short video
as John reflects on the resources he wishes he had at his
start — and discusses the range of new tools now available to provide entrepreneurs the support they need to move their
ideas forward.
Every entrepreneurial venture
starts with a good
idea, evolves to a bunch of amazing
ideas, and with any luck, ends up
as a successful business.
Indeed, the very action of creation — whether composing a song or even
starting a company — can help you redirect and reduce stress by using these negative feelings
as catalysts to spark innovative
ideas and products.
To get things
started, he had some consulting gigs («major energy companies, I think you can say»)
as well
as a DARPA grant, his 3 - D modeling software, and «a whole bunch of other
ideas in the energy space.»
Start by just getting your
ideas down on paper in raw form
as bullet points in each area.
The duo also scored a lot of free publicity in Atlanta by playing up the «local boys make good» angle of their story
as well
as the
idea of a gay couple
starting a company together.
Just
as every story needs a headline and every book needs a title, a good storyteller will
start with the one big
idea before expanding on the details.
As he worked, he realized there was no one solely focused on providing clean water and got the
idea to
start his own foundation.
It's an
idea that has been around forever, but is making a big comeback
as people who have lost their jobs in the recession increasingly look to
start a small business
as an alternative to traditional employment.
The minute I
start rejecting the
ideas that come up the ones I haven't captured yet disappear
as quickly
as trolls at the first hint of morning.