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How do you know your idea / product is great?

Whether you are "selling"

• your skills to get a job in return 
• soap to a consumer
• your idea / company to an investor for investment in return
• your sweat to dig gold

If you are unable to make a sale after repeated attempts, then you need to answer the below questions to yourself honestly.

1. Value: Is my skill / product / idea really good? Does it provide enough value to the buyer?
2. Need: Am I pitching to the wrong audience? Am I searching in the wrong place? 

If investors are not ready to write a check immediately when you pitch the idea / product, then you dont have a great product! Go perfect the product, make customers pay for the product or go build another product!

If investors are not competing (e.g. dwolla) to invest in your idea / product, then you don't have a great product!

If I have a big stack of soap at my home and a salesman knocks my door and tries to sell soap to me, will I buy?

Entrepreneurship: Success Stories

Do one thing and be great at it
Five Guys
Chipotle
Instagram - Kevin Seystrom
Spotify - Daniel Ek

Sean Parker

Why winners seem to keep winning?

Take Federer or Nadal, even though they seem down by the middle of the match, they will pull back and win it. Some guys just give up when found in such situations. Same is true with Australian cricket team in the early 2000s. It's the mental stength, belief and expecting to win.


When going gets tough, tough get going!


I rarely fall because I practice each sequence in my imagination at night with my eyes closed. I can successfully perform my entire routine with my eyes closed without hesitation..Irina Slutskaya


Winners mentally simulate and practice winning until it becomes a habit.


We're gonna win the game. I guarantee it!..Joe Namath


Take no prisoners war strategy!


I think a lot of guys didn't relish the big moments. Well, I did. I saw how much fun it was playing in front of that many people, so instead of becoming nervous I got really, really excited. My level ofconcentration went sky-high. That's when I truly excelled....Terry Bradshaw


When you know you are going to die if you dont win, then one puts in the best fight as in war...Kiyosaki


When someone believes it's him against the world, it doubles his resolve

Useful sites

AngleList
TED
Business Insider

Inspiring speeches

TED
Stanford ecorner
Sukhinder Singh Cassidy
Steve Jobs Stanford Address
Martin Luther King...I have a dream
JK Rowling Harvard address...seeing the bottom
Sheryl Sandberg..harvard commencement...

Elite blogs

Simon Sinek: Why-How-What golden circle.
Fred Wilson: Details of enterpreneurship
Mark Suster: Entrepreneurship advise
Naval Ravikant