Comments on: Looking for a Partner http://www.krotscheck.net/2009/12/06/looking-for-a-partner.html Michael Krotscheck's insights, ideas, and inspirations about web technology, life, and the kitchen sink. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 05:12:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: Lane Kuhlman http://www.krotscheck.net/2009/12/06/looking-for-a-partner.html/comment-page-1#comment-1540 Lane Kuhlman Tue, 02 Mar 2010 05:11:09 +0000 http://www.krotscheck.net/2009/12/06/looking-for-a-partner.html#comment-1540 We should get together for beer and discuss this. I am intrigued. :) We should get together for beer and discuss this. I am intrigued. :)

]]> By: Aaron http://www.krotscheck.net/2009/12/06/looking-for-a-partner.html/comment-page-1#comment-1537 Aaron Tue, 23 Feb 2010 21:06:18 +0000 http://www.krotscheck.net/2009/12/06/looking-for-a-partner.html#comment-1537 If you think your idea is cool, you'd tell everyone about it. If you want to sell your idea, you'd be marketing it. No one cares that you have an idea. The guy with a "pet rock" had an idea. If your idea is something people want, they will pay to to create it (or pay you to pay someone else to create it.) If it's a really good idea, they'll pay to to come up with more ideas. If it's something that's so obvious (but heretofore completely overlooked) that upon hearing it, someone else will immediately recognize your brilliance and drop everything and try to implement it first, you should tell everyone about it as quick as you can, and get it timestamped on your blog, because the value of saying "I thought of it first" and being able to prove it is probably worth the patent application. If it's the type of idea that can be implemented in a week and won't make you enough money to be worth your while unless you can capture more than 50% of all potential users right away, it's not worth building. If you think your idea is cool, you’d tell everyone about it. If you want to sell your idea, you’d be marketing it.

No one cares that you have an idea. The guy with a “pet rock” had an idea.

If your idea is something people want, they will pay to to create it (or pay you to pay someone else to create it.) If it’s a really good idea, they’ll pay to to come up with more ideas. If it’s something that’s so obvious (but heretofore completely overlooked) that upon hearing it, someone else will immediately recognize your brilliance and drop everything and try to implement it first, you should tell everyone about it as quick as you can, and get it timestamped on your blog, because the value of saying “I thought of it first” and being able to prove it is probably worth the patent application.

If it’s the type of idea that can be implemented in a week and won’t make you enough money to be worth your while unless you can capture more than 50% of all potential users right away, it’s not worth building.

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