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I think this is a great idea, and I wonder if LinkedIn is a forum for this type of application. Somewhere people are looking to spend time on their next project. I m alo a big fan of the face to face, so those websites that promote people in the same town coming together to talk about a topic are a step forward in this space.
Check out my Hack: focus on customer value more than profit. I would be interested in your comments.
For me with a software background, innovators need customers to market test (battle test) their ideas with real world users, who are prepared to commit time, effort, money to seeing something new delivered for their benefit.
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Hey Richard, thanks for the comment. You are thinking in just the same sort of space that I am...leveraging LinkedIn is exactly what I would like see happen. Facebook is also usable because I believe the best outcomes emerge from the widest diversity of inputs. Facebook is certainly diverse...Linkedin has greater focus. Creation lies somewhere between the two.
The idea of linking people around an idea that they all find exciting, then refining the input until you have a relatively tight group that can share the emerging equity resulting from their combined knowledge, experience and input...a group that can provide direct real world knowledge to built out a business model that reflects much greater levels of certainty than is capable when you try to develop an idea to feasibility in virtual isolation is, I think, one of the greatest gains that the internet offers.
Imagine having a great idea fort a new widjet...you know what it needs to do - the basic value proposition is able to be defined, but you don't know anything about manufacturing design, processes, marketing, branding, finance, sales, the list goes on...so how do you lay your hands on all those sets of knowledge without enormous amounts of cash to get it off the ground?
If you could attract international skills - perhaps a designer from England, a manufacturer from China, a marketing and sales wizz from the USA etc etc to combine into an international team then you could create a far more compelling case and business model quickly that leverages skills beyond expectations...that is what I am thinking about.
Again thanks for the' vote' of support.
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