AntGalvin’s Blog

Despite my tardiness, I have made it on to the Session list at the BarCamp Cork website. (Second from the bottom – So not the tardiest!).

Whats it about?

People with ideas for businesses have a tendency to keep them for themselves so that they alone can profit from them.

Why this is wrong?

Very rarely can one person bring an idea from concept to profit.

Why can’t one person turn an idea into a business?

Well, its not that they can’t, its that they shouldn’t.

• Starting a business is a huge energy drain. Share the burden.
• 2, 3 or n heads are better than 1. The more* perspectives that feed into a product/business/decision – The better the outcome. (*Within reason obviously).
• Contacts. Can’t have enough contacts.

and most importantly

• Business is multi-disciplined. How many good engineers are good marketers that have a handle on Balance sheets?

Why bring this up at BarCamp?

Good question, all of the above is fairly common sensical anyway.

The reason why BarCamp Cork is such a good place to address this issue is that it will be attended by business people, technologists, artists, designers, students, young people, old people, Cork, Dub and Belfast people and lots of others.

With them they will bring:

1. Time.
2. Perspectives.
3. Energy.
4. Skills.
5. Contacts.
6. Money.

They are the sort of people, opportunists, entrepreneurs, who if they come across something that has potential are not the sort of people to walk away.

So what?

In this session – I am opening it to the floor in the hopes that others might talk about their own ideas – Give them away in the hopes that something can be made of them.

Speak about your idea – And its potential, and invite others to talk to you about it. Who knows what will come of these discussions?

I will even put my own idea out there, to be shot down if necessary.

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