• Spreading vs. Selling Ideas

    edited by Alexander Becker

    Too many geniuses still wonder why their ideas won't spread.

    Obviously, it bears repeating --

    Do you want to spread an idea or do you want to establish a business and make money? That's an either/or decision to boot. You will end up doing both but you are not going to skip this first decision.

    Spreading ideas and making money are not mutually exclusive, it's just that ideas are more suited to being spread than sold.

    So you package that idea, make it into a product and sell it. Try to sell it, that is. The problem? Packaging the idea however beautiful, making it into as many products possible, doesn't actually spread that idea. There is no shortcut.

    An amount of money, any amount, is just another barrier to spreading your idea. While this is nothing new, why then, are you still trying to sell your ideas?

    Is fear still stronger than desire?

    Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.

    Howard Aiken

    Even more, I'd rather worry about nobody being interested in stealing my idea -- as an artist, my #1 concern would be to get my music, films, &c. on the filesharing networks. Again, nothing new, but why, then, are you nowhere to be found?

    Intellectual property is the ownership or origination of an idea and not the possession and fierce defense of every tangible and intangible digital representation or copy of your idea on the internet, on DVD, or even on paper.

    Spread your idea, whatever it takes, and make money, no matter how, but do not confuse the two.

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