Your BIG Idea

A couple of weeks ago, I put up a blog post that really helped to clarify for me the relationship between ideas and action in monetary terms. What it essentially comes down to is that ideas are a dime a dozen and are worthless if not followed through with brilliant execution. Seth Godin has gone so far as to challenge his 9 students in the Alternative MBA Program to come up with 999 business ideas that are only valuable if someone actually makes them happen. Taking this model, what if social entrepreneurs and innovators were to do the same? i.e Create an open-source forum for ideas to change the world. Over at FutureShifters, they are looking to replicate Seth Godin’s model but with a social change twist. Check it out here and join the discussion!

We have huge numbers of young, talented and eager people out there and so many powerful ideas that people are too busy to develop or are otherwise unable to pursue. In a small effort to open source this mutha and open up the idea marketplace we want to replicate Seth’s 999 free ideas project with a social change twist. In partnership with the social change organization AllDayBuffet, we’re compiling a list of ideas here for social businesses, innovative nonprofits and unique development initiatives.

Here’s How It Works: Post a comment below with a 1-5 sentence description of your idea(s) that might help shove the world in the right direction. It can be for profit, nonprofit, big, small, tongue in cheek or dead serious. Maybe it’s been eating at you for a while or maybe you just thought of it this second (or you will by the time you finish this post), either way, share it with the world! If we get enough responses we’ll summarize them and AllDayBuffet will publish the list. Don’t have the details worked out? Don’t think it would work in the real world? Wouldn’t have that big an impact? Not sure people would go for it? Think someone somewhere is probably already doing it? Post it anyway!!

Who knows, maybe someone will read it and run with it. Maybe they’ll take it in a direction you never even thought of. Maybe your idea, that you were never gonna do anything with anyway, will inspire someone to pursue their own world changing idea. You never know. Read more

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