Disclaimer, the title is not mine. It’s actually from Thomas Edison.
As any normal person, I like to talk about ideas, exchanging creative thoughts and thinking about the future. When the ideias are good, it’s inspiring.
But in this new Fashionable Entrepreneur world, I feel that we are praising the wrong kind of principles and values.
To create a startup and “be” an entrepreneur, it’s not enough to have an ideia. Not even “the” big ideia. It’s all about execution! It’s all about converting these ideas into reality. And when these ideas are new, disruptive and creative and they are converted to reality, we call it innovation.
And this is how new business models, startups and impressive things get invented.
So, when great ideas come up, they are not what counts! What matters is the ability to find realistic ways to execute them!
An idea that is properly communicated becomes a vision. A great vision is much more than a great idea. And a vision can be pretty powerful!
A vision can inspire and bring motivation to those who will try to execute it or even buy into it (e.g.: customers, partners, consumers, etc).
Nevertheless, never forget that a Vision without Execution is just Hallucination!