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The Pollenizer team is constantly exposed to a flux of new entrepreneurs with web-businesses ideas. This stream comes to us either via our Bootcamp sessions, Pitches rounds, Investors network or more broadly via the various social media tools our antennae can reach.
This is awesome!
Seeing so much entrepreneurial energy in the Australian web industry is one of the best thing we could all wish for. This energy is fueling us everyday to build more great web products and hopefully shape tomorrow’s web landscape.
However we, too often, hear the same sad stories.
Extracts:
My idea is simply Facebook but better
No it’s not.
You’ll need to sign an NDA first and then I’ll tell you about my idea
I want to patent my idea
Really? Nothing better to spend your money on?
My project will succeed because it’s highly viral!
Ha ha ha!
My target market is pretty much everybody on the planet. They’ll all love it and pay money for it!
Bye now…
Etc. etc…
This might sound harsh to some but this is the true reality. The quicker entrepreneurs can overcome this secretive / overly optimistic cliche, the quicker they will actually start to walk on the road of success (I love metaphors… ;).
All this was admirably summarized in this hilarious video from James Yu – Check it out!
Let us know in the comments if you think I should be a vegetarian this is the right way to look at it 🙂
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