The difference between a good idea and a great idea…
Posted on 05. Feb, 2009 by Jared Degnan in Strategy, Teams
…is often the people you chose to have with you along the way.
About a week and a half ago I was sitting in an excruciatingly boring b-school lecture and an idea popped into my head. It wasn’t what you would call a groundbreaking, just a way that I could use a particular domain name to bump up the visibility of my professional online portfolio.
The more I thought about it though, the more sense it made that the idea could have exponentially larger impact, the more people I brought in on it. Without batting an eyelash, I went to work on securing that domain and rounding up about half a dozen of my classmates who I thought might be interested in going in on it with me.
Flash-forward to today and the idea doesn’t just have more people associated with it; it has funding! It turns out that the idea addressed a similar need that the Owen Career Management Center had and would have paid much, much more for had my friends and I not it brought up.
I have always thought of myself as more of an intrapreneur rather than entrepreneur but I can most definitely see the allure either way. Who knows? Perhaps this is a new leaf.
Keep an eye out for the idea though, I think you’re going to like it.
