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Two Reasons why people won’t like your idea

Posted in Startups by on the March 29th, 2007

A lot of the time people will give you one of  two reasons as to why they don’t like your idea:

“It’s been done before”
“It’s never been done before”

One of those two phrases has been true of every idea or business that has ever been successful.

From Seth

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  1. on June 3rd, 2007 at 9:28 am

    I’ve received both comments for all of the successful businesses I’ve started. Also I’ve consistently gotten “That sounds like a lot of work!” - but not for the business that have failed. The more apprehensive people are about the work/effort, the better the idea, IMX.

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