Have you ever had a great idea, which you dropped because people told you you were wrong?
- The Twitter development team were wrong to build a site, where you can only post 140 character messages. Tweets are way too short.
- Steve Jobs was wrong to launch the iPad, which is a premium priced product, during one of the worst economies in modern history. It’s just too expensive.
- The Groupon team were wrong to build a billion dollar email marketing business. Email is dead.
The wrong way to get it right
When someone doesn’t have your vision, they will look at what you are doing and tell you that you are wrong. The thing is, their lack of understanding can’t be the compass you use, to determine the direction of your business. That’s because they will tell you that you are wrong, even when you are right; purely because they can’t see it or they don’t get it .
If you have done your research and you believe something is right, you need to go and build it.