Sharing my ideas is only half the reason this blog exists.
Nobody cares what some guy in small-town Utah has to say about business. While I’ve started a few businesses, they’ve all been fairly small affairs. Mostly hobbies really. So I understand that I don’t have a lot of influence when I start talking about how business should be run.
It’s really easy to sit back and say that “capitalists” should just share more of their money with everyone else. Or that it’s not fair when one person has so much money and other people don’t. I’m not here to join either of those choirs.
People listen to Richard Branson and Seth Godin and Marc Andreessen because they’ve proved their ideas. They’ve built things. Things that people wanted. Things that helped other people build other things that people wanted.
So even though I don’t know exactly how I’m going prove my ideas yet, I had to start somewhere. The real proof is yet to come. “Almost anyone can think up an idea. The thing that counts is developing it into a practical product.”1.
- Henry Ford, My Life and Work ↩
