Talking to your friends about your business ideas is great; maybe they will show you stuff you missed, maybe you will come up with something new.
Never disregard an advice from a pro; 99 percent of the time they will be right and your crazy idea will really be too crazy.
But there are times when other people will tell you that you can’t make it, that it won’t work and they will be wrong. Don’t listen to them. Not everybody else is right; not your friends who know little about your idea, unlike you who live with it 24 hours a day and by this time you probably know about business more then they do, not the ones who don’t have a micro business, not the ones who have the boring, 1784th version of one.
Plus, if you see someone else has done it, there is nothing that should be stopping you from going for it.
When you feel the nudge from the inside, when you feel like you should do it, when you’re nervous and you feel like you’ve missed a day because you haven’t done anything about it, do it!
Sometimes you need to go with that gut feeling, that’s all I have to say.
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Great point, although I would disagree in one area.
Pros are human. They are wrong many times. As a matter of fact some pros have such a huge ego that they’ll dismiss a world changing idea because THEY can’t think that it can be done. Some tend to be know-it all’s, and this is a dangerous thing. The person who knows if a thing can or can’t be done is You. Always has been, always will.
Neat blog! Thanks for sharing your insight.
Hi Ryan,
you’re right, we are the only ones who can know whether we should run with our idea or not. And you have put it really great when you said that THEY can’t think of a way a certain big idea can be done. What I meant by saying “listen to pros, they are usually right”, is that they can guide you in the professional part of the deal, not the creative part. For example, if your idea doesn’t have a business model, it won’t survive. Saying something like “those people are usually like that” is not the greatest way to explain what we mean, obviously, rolf. Guilty for that one.
Thanks to you too for clearing that up.