Comments on: Time vs Ideas

by: Arik

Sat, 20 Oct 2007 18:22:55 +0000

Hey, your site keeps asking me to login to twitter.com:80… fix that please.

by: Aaron Dragushan

Wed, 17 Oct 2007 08:18:54 +0000

One trick for handling too many ideas is to write them down in as much detail as you like. That way you can safely set them aside without worrying that something will be forgotten/missed.

You end up with a book full of ideas you’ll probably never tackle, but that’s good. It’s what you want. What you *don’t* want is to go from one to the next, abandoning projects along the way.

Focus is hugely important. Often when you read over your previous ideas they’re less exciting than when you were scribbling like mad, and that’s a good thing too. ;)

by: Darren Stuart

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:30:33 +0000

I have this problem and it is a huge problem for me. I have massive lists of apps to build and a big list of tech demos too. My problem is like the one above, picking which one is going to be a winner. In this day and age when there are so many people with so many ideas and execution being cheap you always have a feeling that someone else is going to do the one you decided against. I have lost count how many apps launched that I have had to cross of my list.

by: Alex

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 20:04:34 +0000

I have a couple of ideas - but no time because I am still working on ideas that I launched a few years back. This makes them old ideas… which isn’t very sexy. Such is life.

I would like to see an article on Vitamin where someone (probably a VC) goes through how to evaluate which ideas are runners, which are not. (this is down to how long to develop, potential monetisation, whether you could bootstrap it or not) - that kind of thing.

I also get paid for good ideas when working as an ecommerce consultant…. which is a bit weird…. I have also found that one of the problems of going to your conferences is too many ideas are created….. if you go to as many conferences as you run (which is an assumption!) then no wonder you have too many ideas!

by: James

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:41:15 +0000

I’m the other way around, too much time and not enough good ideas! Sure, I have ideas but someone has already got there before me.

by: Andrew

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:20:26 +0000

It would be great if you could blog really openly about this process.

When you were in the process of selling Dropsend you gave true stats and revenue figures. It would be helpful if you gave updates on any major feature changes, marketing campaigns, etc and how these affect your stats/revenue.

Are you keeping your outsourced staff or bringing it all back in house?

How successful has Amigo been? We’ve seen figures for Dropsend but not Amigo.

Good luck with everything!!

by: David Myers

Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:44:43 +0000

I think too many ideas and not enough time is a common problem. You just have to make sure that you can spend enough time on each project, and not let some older sites go on the back-burner while a new idea is in development.