The Best Entrepreneurs Don't Come Up With Great Ideas, They Solve Market Needs

We have had a lot of fun in previous posts coming up with ideas for new companies.

 

And there is absolutely no doubt in my mind that some of them—like a Shazam-like app that identifies cars, and an automated airline seat grabber—could be successful.

 

“But why are you are giving away these ideas,” lots of people have asked.

 

The answer is simple, even if it has multiple parts.

 

1. I don’t want to run anything. Once upon a time, I was a middle manager for the largest division of a Fortune 500 company and not only did I hate it, I may have been the worst boss who ever lived. Really.

 

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