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Why Execution (Not Ideas) Will Bring You Success | Inc.com
Pepsi existed long before Coke; Hipstamatic preceded Instagram; and who remembers a site called Friendster? In all these cases, entrepreneurs found ways to break through into the consumer mainstream despite the fact that their 'idea' had already been done. Fortunately, their particular mode of execution hadn't.
...Should anyone ask you to share the idea you're working on, tell them. Or, if you prefer, say that the big idea that's keeping you up at night is to build a business that simply executes better than anyone else.
Pepsi existed long before Coke; Hipstamatic preceded Instagram; and who remembers a site called Friendster? In all these cases, entrepreneurs found ways to break through into the consumer mainstream despite the fact that their 'idea' had already been done. Fortunately, their particular mode of execution hadn't.
...Should anyone ask you to share the idea you're working on, tell them. Or, if you prefer, say that the big idea that's keeping you up at night is to build a business that simply executes better than anyone else.
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