Comments on: What precedes an Emerging Business Opportunity? http://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/what-precedes-an-emerging-business-opportunity/ ... in Business Organizations and Information Technologies Mon, 21 May 2012 22:13:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Online Busines Opportunities Reviewed http://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/what-precedes-an-emerging-business-opportunity/comment-page-1/#comment-49810 Online Busines Opportunities Reviewed Thu, 25 Jun 2009 10:11:58 +0000 http://coevolving.com/blogs/index.php/archive/what-precedes-an-emerging-business-opportunity/#comment-49810 "The key idea from the case study discussion is centered around getting external parties involved. If you can’t get a single customer excited about your innovation, you’re unlikely to get a whole industry excited." This couldn't be anymore true ! I also think one has to believe in the product themselves. I have been in sales most of my life and I don't I always most successful in selling the products I believe in personally. Either because I have bought or would like to buy it, or I know it is comparitively better than the competition at least in some ways. I find it interesting that HP were unable to see the business opportunity in the PC market when I watched the movie based on Bill Gates' and Steve Jobs life . early days. The scene of them at HP with their monstrous "Personal Computer" idea and the HP executive looking at them as if to say "are you crazy ? What's this ?". After HP weren't interested then that HP employee (forget his name) was off the hook and was able to sell his invention. It's also interesting how Bill Gates didn't sell the MSDOS software to IBM but only licensed it - genious ! I don't think IBM saw the potential in the software business. I recommend the movie "Pirates of Silicon Valley", interesting to see the rise of Apple and Microsoft. 2 people who saw Business Opportunities that others missed “The key idea from the case study discussion is centered around getting external parties involved. If you can’t get a single customer excited about your innovation, you’re unlikely to get a whole industry excited.”

This couldn’t be anymore true ! I also think one has to believe in the product themselves. I have been in sales most of my life and I don’t I always most successful in selling the products I believe in personally. Either because I have bought or would like to buy it, or I know it is comparitively better than the competition at least in some ways.

I find it interesting that HP were unable to see the business opportunity in the PC market when I watched the movie based on Bill Gates’ and Steve Jobs life . early days. The scene of them at HP with their monstrous “Personal Computer” idea and the HP executive looking at them as if to say “are you crazy ? What’s this ?”. After HP weren’t interested then that HP employee (forget his name) was off the hook and was able to sell his invention.

It’s also interesting how Bill Gates didn’t sell the MSDOS software to IBM but only licensed it – genious ! I don’t think IBM saw the potential in the software business.

I recommend the movie “Pirates of Silicon Valley”, interesting to see the rise of Apple and Microsoft. 2 people who saw Business Opportunities that others missed

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