Podcast: Five Fears Of Innovators and External Innovation Networks

philmckinney | July 15, 2006

Podcast

Dateline: Sunnyvale, CA

Segment 1: Five Fears of Innovators

  1. Someone has already done it
  2. Once executed, my ideas never turn out as good as I dreamed it
  3. I’ve never done this before …. I don’t know enough …. I don’t have all of the answers
  4. My BLANK (family, friends, co-workers, etc) will think I’m crazy
  5. Someone will steal my idea – so I can’t talk about it

Segment 2: External Innovation Networks

  • Venture Capitalists
  • Angel Investors
  • Other Companies
  • Universities
  • Government
  • Industry Groups
  • Individual Inventors

Segment 3: Killer Question 

Closing Thoughts:

"To Be truly creative, you have to work beyond what you know.  Pushing the envelope is what being creative is all about"

John Ferrie 

 

MP3 Feed of the July 17th Podcast

 

Tags: angel investors, creative, family friends, fears, ferrie, government industry, industry groups, innovation networks, innovators, inventors, Killer Questions, universities, venture capitalists

  • http://nsputnik.com Nick Dynice

    Regarding Fear of Innovation point 3, most don’t know what they are doing, but only the ones who persist do not let this keep them from starting. Check out this related post at the 37 Signals blog.