There are tons of great ideas out there on the Internet…do you really need to think-up a totally new one? Maybe yes, but maybe no…
I was just reading this stealing content ideas post, and was reminded of this Picasso quote:
Bad artists copy. Great artists steal. ~Pablo Picasso
John Reese also had some interesting idea-stealing advice in this video called “sell what’s already selling”.
I once talked with the CEO of a major Internet company who told me straight-up that he was not necessarily interested in creating unique Internet products, just copying and improving on other existing products. I was actually a little surprised.
What about you? Are you a Picasso?
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3 responses so far ↓
1 Tim // Aug 2, 2007 at 12:53 am
Hm. Did you mean steal indeed? I’d like to call this “use ideas”. Because when you know about idea the options are to do something with this ( use it ) or leave it. You can’t take idea from the author.
2 Todd // Aug 2, 2007 at 8:43 am
@Tim: call it whatever you want I guess. “using”, “stealing”, “borrowing”, “inspiration”, etc..
3 discover fire » Blog Archive » No More Car // Aug 12, 2007 at 8:31 pm
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