That is fantastic–it seems to be everything that I have read about in entrepreneurial books in the last few years. The potential created by these multiple streams of income is amazing to me.

I seem to have plenty of inspirations and ideas, but have repeatedly said that my biggest stumbling block was not having a qualified mentor or someone to discuss ideas with that had experience with the lifestyle/business I wanted to pursue.

I, too, am lucky enough to have a job that provides for my family and also offers skill development opportunity for me to use in my own entrepreneurial pursuits. Still, there is that leap-of-faith that must be made, especially when you cannot just copy a business plan or process but instead must invent your own, to get yourself away from your employee “comfort zone” and into the business owner status. That is where I fail.

If I cannot find someone to help me to see the different angles and weigh the costs, how do I know if developing this product or that service is better than staying with this employer or seeking that new job position. This is what keeps me in my chair while Opportunity walks away from my door.

Regardless, I am now exposed to your influence and hope to follow your thoughts in the future.

Thanks for being an example.

Support… heavy word and very challenging. My grandmother always said ‘you can’t please all of the people all of the time’, but truth be told if you have a company (especially one that is providing services) – you have to at least try.

I have helped many people find a balance between providing excellent support and maintaining personal time with their families and friends.

It takes great organization skills and much patience, but it can be done.

We should definitely speak more!

But I do agree that, if you can afford to invest or create, a down economy is the place to do it to get a leg up on the competition. Great time to buy as many stocks as you can afford, too. Which for me equals about one share…

I completely agree with you, the majority of the time it is the small companies with the brilliant ideas. I obviously can’t make any suggestions to your specific ideas without knowing them, but there are ways to work around the financial situation and not need angel investors.

You don’t have to launch a product overnight, however there are research and development processes that you can do early on more economically.

Let’s talk!

I have no doubt that one or two of them could be made to be very lucrative, but it would take an infusion of angel cash to give me the resources to bring any of these ideas to fruition. Angel investors don’t usually invest in vapor-ware so we’re back to trying to put something together on a shoestring and in what few hours we can scratch out between billable clients. That recipe is very difficult to be successful with.

I realize that your post was most likely targeted at companies larger than ours, but I wanted to comment mainly to highlight that it’s not just the larger (meaning larger than our operation) companies that have all the good ideas.