Comments on: Eureka Moments http://blog.simeonov.com/2008/08/05/eureka-moments/ Simeon Simeonov on entrepreneurship, innovation & venture capital Mon, 26 Jul 2010 11:04:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: The Easy Road To Incremental Innovation « HighContrast http://blog.simeonov.com/2008/08/05/eureka-moments/#comment-17409 The Easy Road To Incremental Innovation « HighContrast Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:26:00 +0000 http://simeons.wordpress.com/?p=314#comment-17409 [...] I don’t think there is anything wrong with this model of entrepreneurship. I may differ from Judy on that–I’d have to read the book to know for sure. I don’t think building companies to flip them is good or bad. There is no value judgment. It just is what an entrepreneur wants to do. That said, this is not the model of entrepreneurship that I’m interested in helping foster because, like Judy, I believe that we need more startups to aim big, to try to change the world and leave a lasting mark. Not because of ego but because technology, used the right way, is a great positive force. Because it is more fun that way. Because the hard problems are the ones worth solving (or, even better, are the ones worth figuring out how not to have to solve). [...] [...] I don’t think there is anything wrong with this model of entrepreneurship. I may differ from Judy on that–I’d have to read the book to know for sure. I don’t think building companies to flip them is good or bad. There is no value judgment. It just is what an entrepreneur wants to do. That said, this is not the model of entrepreneurship that I’m interested in helping foster because, like Judy, I believe that we need more startups to aim big, to try to change the world and leave a lasting mark. Not because of ego but because technology, used the right way, is a great positive force. Because it is more fun that way. Because the hard problems are the ones worth solving (or, even better, are the ones worth figuring out how not to have to solve). [...]

]]> By: Don Jones http://blog.simeonov.com/2008/08/05/eureka-moments/#comment-17389 Don Jones Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:39:20 +0000 http://simeons.wordpress.com/?p=314#comment-17389 I find that the "moment of calm" can be engineered if you know yourself well. In my case, I have my best moments of insight when I get away from the computer for 20 minutes and write my thoughts out the old-fashioned way on a small pad of paper - as a stream of consciousness process. I do this on nearly a daily basis, and it serves to generate all kinds of ideas or different combinations of existing issues. But the regularity of the process is also extremely helpful. I almost look forward to it and it's like the ideas start lining up in advance of this daily process. I find that the “moment of calm” can be engineered if you know yourself well. In my case, I have my best moments of insight when I get away from the computer for 20 minutes and write my thoughts out the old-fashioned way on a small pad of paper – as a stream of consciousness process.

I do this on nearly a daily basis, and it serves to generate all kinds of ideas or different combinations of existing issues. But the regularity of the process is also extremely helpful. I almost look forward to it and it’s like the ideas start lining up in advance of this daily process.

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