Quote: Don’t ever let anyone tell you that something is too competitive

“Don’t ever let anyone tell you that something is too competitive. Once you subtract the people who don’t work very hard, or the people who aren’t as good as you, your competition shrinks dramatically.”

- Maggie Mason, entrepreneur, author, and founder of Mighty Goods

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  • http://www.adtechlab.com E Fall

    HI Steve. Why don’t you let us submit our ideas here and the audience can vote for them. TECHQUILASHOTS meets DIGG. This way we cna tell our friends to vote etc and you’ll have more readers ( not that you want to. My 2.5 cents.

  • http://www.vestedventures.com Steve Poland

    @E Fall — It’s an interesting idea, but requires a bit of work (and people voting up ideas — not sure people would do this; if they did, what would the best idea get/do? exposure, but ideas are a dime a dozen — it’s all about execution). Likely would then use Pligg. Anyhow, not planning to do anything like this at this time — too many other things going on. Thanks for the suggestion.

  • http://www.adtechlab.com E Fall

    Fair enough. Yes Pligg would be a ok and it could be done within a day or two. But, then you got to match the layout etc.. Could be a week or so. Well, we’ll still keep telling our friends to bookmark your site. ;)

  • http://www.adtechlab.com E Fall

    Oh. To answer your question. For now, there would not be a need for a repository of 1000 ideas and user comments. But maybe 9 months from now if I have a crazy idea I could search the site and find something similar w/ feedbacks etc.. Market Research.Hum? Companies pay people thousands just to get feedbacks about products. Never know the outcome.

  • http://jessicamah.com Jessica Mah

    I like the quote… I wrote on my blog (http://jessicamah.com) about how so many people will have similar ideas to you or mention competition, and it gets soo annoying after a while. Silence them, ignore them, and execute. More than likely, your supposed competition with the supposed “same” idea will never compete.

  • http://shoemoney.com Jeremy Schoemaker

    Hey steve-

    when I was in nyc i got your email on my phone but then my phone got stolen =( so I never got to respond. Can you please resend ;)