Why Having An Idea Is Good Enough
When the recession hit in 2008 people lost jobs left and
right. Employers had to fire lifelong employees. All of this created the
perfect conditions for the millennial entrepreneur to flourish. Because the
traditional career was no longer a guarantee, millennials were willing to accept
the risks that come with being self-employed.
Instead of working the typical nine-to-five job, many among
gen-y started their own business ventures. Now some of the most successful
businesses are run by those millennials whose thinking was shaped by the
uncertainty of the recession.
However, despite these examples of millennials many among my
generation still miss opportunities hidden in plain sight because they seem
unreachable. Mobile app development is a great example of how an idea can be
good enough.
First off, apps are an interesting business because there’s
a perception that one needs to know how to build their own apps from the ground
up. Coding experience helps, but that’s a bit like claiming that the CEO of a
car manufacturing company should be able to build a car from scratch.
As CEO, she has a role, which is that she must manage and be
familiar with every other role. Most of all, the CEO is a manager of ideas and
a strategist.
You don’t have to do everything – you must be willing to,
but figure out what you can do and start there. The Yik Yak you know began on a
napkin – it was just an idea. Venture capitalists will fund ideas nowadays if
you can present with proof of concept. Startups look for seed funding, but in
the early two-thousand-teens pre-seed investing started, where investors will
literally fund a concept.
My point isn’t that you should just wait around with your
brilliant idea, but rather, that if you’ve exhausted all your options in
getting it past the idea stage, you just need to keep pushing. If you know what
you’ve got is gold, then look for the reasons why it should happen, and why it
can. Remove can’t from your vocabulary. If you have a great idea you can will
it into existence.
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