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Is there a thing called too many ideas ?

September 26, 2007 · Posted in Entrepreneurship 

Ideas, by themselves, are worthless. Unless there is proper execution, ideas will go nowhere. To execute, you need focus and persistence. Unwavering focus on your ultimate goal.

While some of the aspiring entrepreneurs wither away trying to find that ‘perfect idea’, several others suffer from a different syndrome - one that can be attributed to ‘too many ideas’. These idea whores cant stop coming up with new business ideas. They tend to get so overwhelmed with all the new ideas, that the net result is that they cant focus on implementing any single one of them. As soon as they start implementing one idea, their mind wavers to the ‘next big thing’. At the end of the day, they’ve not properly explored a single idea.

I’ll admit - I’ve succumbed to this wavering myself, a couple of times.

Albeit no entrepreneur myself, I’ve learnt one very valuable lesson - based on my discussions with several other successful entrepreneurs and businessmen.

Entrepreneurship takes discipline and persistence. Everyone gets ideas. Ideas are cheap and easy - executing on a particular idea is the difficult part.

What do you think ? Have you suffered from the ‘too many ideas’ syndrome at any point ?


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5 Responses to “Is there a thing called too many ideas ?”

  1. Vikas on September 27th, 2007 3:29 am

    As a first time entrepreneur who had way too many ideas floating in his head earlier, I can vouch that ideas are seriously worth nothing. Loads of passion, focus, unwavering confidence and differentiated execution is in my opinion what’s needed most.

    If ideas were worth something, there would have been an ideas market already.

  2. Unmesh on September 27th, 2007 1:46 pm

    Consider yourself lucky if you have even a couple of worthwhile ideas. Gives you an opportunity to weigh them on their merits before considering to start with one. But start you must, be it in the form of a prototype, business plan, excel, … That will tell you for sure how much mettle is in the idea. The worst thing to do is to keep contemplating…

  3. Ashish on September 28th, 2007 2:24 am

    Very true. Infact the ‘next best idea’ syndrome not only stops one from exploring any idea well, you get extremely susceptible to the syndrome when the one you are already working on is passing through a relatively bad patch. Also, as a result of valuing ideas over execution, people tend to keep their ideas close to themselves instead of sharing them. This is counterproductive because you don’t get feedback on your idea and after a point your mind starts suffering from idea overload. Personally, something which has worked well for me to deal with this has been simple - I blog the ideas away.

  4. Abhinav on October 3rd, 2007 1:21 am

    I think every idea is worth exploring, some are worth marketing, and some make huge money. One needs to understand the basics of business and if everything seems right, go for it !!

    The idea need not be new, but must make money :)

    My latest idea: http://www.bloggerforce.com/

  5. Dikshant on October 3rd, 2007 3:28 am

    Yes I have been at such situation many a times. Ideation as a process can never stop at any one single idea. You are bound to think that there would be something else, much better than this.
    It is very chaotic by nature, however one can train oneself to start streamlining the ideas/thoughts and build somekind of structure around it. there are various ways to do this. I used a simple technique, Mind-Mapping. It waorks well for me.
    Some years of entrepreneurship have very well taught me that there is a lot more to do than just sit and think :-).