Seriously, where do you find brilliant ideas? Do you have to brilliant, creative, active, thoughful, ..., ?? to get the ideas? Well it might be that being brilliant or creative or thoughtful is just a bi-product of having great ideas.

I have been in search of a great idea, a great *Product* idea to be specific. Last week I saw the video from David Heinemeier Hansson (http://www.loudthinking.com/) where he speaks about creating a profitable startup company. See the video here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY . It is pretty impressive, thanks to Geshan (http://twitter.com/geshan). He talks about the small challenges startups face and the why not to fear for not being successful. It is not necessary to target to be the next facebook or twitter or google or microsoft and a startup should just focus on getting your own product up and build your own small client base and keep them happy. I've seen few other products, small but quiet useful. I think they should have a mediocre client base and have good revenue stream. 

Take the mockup tool Balsamiq for example. It costs 79$. That isn't much for a tool of such good use and a lot of people will actually prefer to pay for it. If you build something useful, people will pay for it. The same goes for the online source code hosting website github (http://github.org). Pretty awesome right?

A lof of these ideas aren't the very first time people have come up with. There must have been a lot of mockup tools before Balsamiq and a lot of source code hosting facilities other than GitHub, and there will be others too. The idea it seems is to not to focus to beat the other guy, but to start delivering products to your clients. If you focus on 5 clients today, it is very much possible to have 10 clients tomorrow if you have a good product. To constantly deliver and innovate should suffice one to stay in the business. Why not you stay in the business and let others do their own business. Take it small I guess.

And to once again come back to topic, it seems when nurturing a concept, its more of a we than I, when coming up with ideas. I alone might come up with 3 ideas and only one of it might actually be good enough, but when there is a group, innovation starts to flow. Two person with three ideas each will be six ideas to start of. Take one good idea from it, work on it, brainstorm and modify to make it better. Sounds interesting.

And to have the *we* thing, ie to build a good team there needs to be communication. That is where this post comes in. I have been lacking enough creativeness to really start blogging till now. And shall I now start blogging just to get my point out to open, no matter how small or how insignificant it is.