People have always asked me why I'm quite free and easy talking about my ideas for new businesses and where opportunities lie, and why I don't keep quiet until the last possible moment. In fact, quite a few businesses go through their self-imposed stealth mode status such as our good friends at webjam (before they launched of course).

Well, a post on David Beisel’s Genuine VC blog really does get to the core of this behaviour. In a nutshell, he says how amazing it is to see different entrepreneurs who have never been in contact or seen their product, often come up with very similar ideas and businesses. It’s not that they have been copying, but rather that good entrepreneurs will tend to sniff out and see the exact same market opportunities that are presenting themselves and then go and implement them.

This is why you will always hear about it being about the execution and never just the idea. Good concepts will be jumped on by many good people but not everyone will have the determination, previous experience, skills, and tenacity to come out on top in implementing it.

Also, by talking about your business idea and current plans, you get some great feedback from a wide variety of clever people (vc’s, other entrepreneurs, designers, programmers, marketers..) – of which you can absorb and decide which elements make most sense. Never take advice from an employee of an average corporate company though – the reason they are stuck there is that they themselves didn’t have what it takes to take the risks and they sure as hell don’t want you doing it either.

As my famous saying goes – “It’s not how many ideas you have, but rather how many you make happen!”