There are ideas and there are ideas. The venture industry, the ‘ecosystem’ and even other folks you meet will jump right into slotting the idea as fundable or not, scalable or not, or even feasible or not. Then there are these other tags and cliches you’ll hear – lifestyle business, capital intensive model, non-monetizable, feature-not-a-product.
But sometimes, the best way forward is to be Nike and just do it. Many an idea dies too early a death caught in analysis-paralysis, and killed by the negativity of thoughts even before its crystalized into a business. Most businesses figure out their exact packaging, revenue streams and the real costs and possible optimizations somewhere along their lifetimes, not as a solved problem upfront. How do you know you’re not going to discover scale as you go along ? How can you be sure there are no other market segments you may be able to address as you come across them ? Optimism and hope are an entrepreneurs currency, and surely many ideas can be made to work. Sure, they may probably not be very attractive VC businesses as they stand when you start out. But that’s about the lousiest reason to not do it!
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