Looking for Autumn
February 22nd, 2007 by Ed SingletonAn interesting article by a guy who had an idea and made it happen. Admittedly it wasn’t a very good idea; he wanted to find out where one of the default Windows backgrounds came from. He spent way too much effort finding out. But, hey, who’s to judge?
http://www.vanityfair.com/ontheweb/features/2007/02/autumn200702
February 23rd, 2007 at 3:27 pm
what a nutcase.
From EI’s point of view turning ideas into reality is our focus. But to be a successful entrepreneur, i guess your idea has to be one that is genuinely an idea in demand. They say that most good business ideas are about solving problems that people have. So is the enterprising individual the one that takes this idea and makes money out of it - for example by developing software that can work out where a photo has been taken (a bit like that service where you play the music in and it identifies it). Or should we just settle with enterprising as meaning creative, problem-solving etc - and say that the journalist is the enterprising one? I don’t know really…
(in fact I do, I’m happy with the broader definition myself but the entrepreneurial one is the photographer that got money for the photo and managed to get a link to his website out of this article!)