Every company was once a single person with an idea
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Every company was once a single person with an idea
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Re: Every company was once a single person with an idea
#2And sometimes, but not always, a financial safety net or a boatload of funding.
Re: Every company was once a single person with an idea
#3This is a nice motivational piece.
That said, I would have liked to see some acknowledgement that the original idea is rarely the one that generates value. The "single person with an idea" by itself places too much emphasis on the value of the idea versus the dogged persistence and willingness to throw that idea out the window as needed.
Re: Every company was once a single person with an idea
#4And sometimes, but not always, a financial safety net or a boatload of funding.
It doesn't hurt to have a few friends or relatives higher up.
Re: Every company was once a single person with an idea
#5And sometimes, but not always, a financial safety net or a boatload of funding.
Don't forget the classic way people used to get loaded back in the day, providing essential services to the state.
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#6...Or a Delaware corporation as a vehicle to avoid taxes ;)
Re: Every company was once a single person with an idea
#7This is a nice motivational piece. That said, I would have liked to see some acknowledgement that the original idea is rarely the one that generates value. The "single person with an idea" by itself places too much emphasis on the value of the idea versus the dogged persistence and willingness to throw that idea out the window as needed.
*capture value
Re: Every company was once a single person with an idea
#8This is a nice motivational piece. That said, I would have liked to see some acknowledgement that the original idea is rarely the one that generates value. The "single person with an idea" by itself places too much emphasis on the value of the idea versus the dogged persistence and willingness to throw that idea out the window as needed.
IBM was started with the idea that "International Business Machines" was a nicer name than "Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company".
Re: Every company was once a single person with an idea
#9Most companies were started because someone needed something fairly mundane done.
Even most inspirational companies were started more or less along these lines.
Extremely few companies were started with a highly aspirational 'world changing' premise. Even the most aspirational brands we recognized, early on - they had no idea they would be as big as it they are.
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#10Every company was once a single person with an idea, as were every company that never came to be. While it's humbling to think that these large companies used to be just in the brains of a few individuals, it's so easy to not look at the graveyard filled with individuals with the same idea but the stars didn't align. When you focus where the light shines, you forget how dark the room is.