We all struggle with that:) My advice is to pick the the single most important part of it, eliminate everything else, and just try to do that one small piece. When it seems like a lot of work, thats when we get into “analysis paralysis”. Just do the smallest piece possible to test the idea.

Here is also some advice from this interview which was good:
http://sivers.org/tim-ferriss

Give yourself a 10-day deadline:
“When friends talk about starting a business I say if you’ve got idea you want to do, don’t sit there for a whole year trying to raise funding or whatever before you can put it out in the world. Just give yourself a 10-day deadline. If there’s something you think the world wants, try it within 10 days. If you don’t have a programmer, do it with a piece of paper and a telephone. Start it even with only one customer, because then you can start the feedback loop, finding out what your customers want. Then you can incrementally improve it over the months. A year down the line you’ll be doing so much better than the guy who is still being secretive in his second round of VC funding. Just get it out there and start to get feedback.”

I happened to (luckily) stumble upon your website today - finally, some real workable tips (rather than the generic ’spend time networking’ bull on every other career based website).

Brian I have a real quandry. Over the past couple of years I have come up with some excellent business ideas. Some are slightly more far-fetched than others, but there is one or two in my mind even now that are just waiting to be worked on by me.

My biggest problem is: I can never follow through! I’ll spend a few weeks, pondering, making the idea grow, researching it and then within the month having done nothing concrete, my drive will fizzle out. I know someone else is going to get there before me if I don’t get off my backside and do something - but how do I get over my doubts and staticity and actually start bringing my ideas to life?

Help please!

I have just begun researching a business idea I have had for some time now. My husband is sick of listening to me complain and has threatened divorce if I don’t actually follow up on it this time!

Anyway, I stumbled across your website and must say that it seems like just the thing I needed to get me moving. Even though I have an MBA - I have NO idea how to start a web-based business. I ordered your book and if its anything like this post - well it will be the best $25 I have ever spent!

Thank you for making your knowledge available to the rest of us!

By the way - I also loved your quote about the difference between rich people and poor - rich people give away $100 to get $10 back from lots of people. That is the backbone of my business idea but I didn’t realize it until I read it!

All the best,

Lisa

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