Posts Tagged ‘idea’

Can our idea work?

January 17th, 2007

CAN OUR IDEA WORK?

Having an idea is the starting point. But not every idea makes it past the starting line. There are various tangibles you must consider when converting your idea into a reality:

1) Is there a need for the idea? (This is the most important, because if no one can make use of your idea, then it will not survive)

2) Do you have the resources necessary to grow your idea? (You can’t make a tree without seeds)

3) Are you committed to developing your idea until it succeeds or fails? (Win or Lose, you will not know what you’re made of until you play the game)

3) Are you committed to developing your idea until it succeeds or fails? (I ask this again because creating a business out of an idea is no easy task. You must be ready and willing to commit extra time and effort to developing every aspect of the idea to make it successful.)

So, can our idea of creating an on-line service that helps you track down your favorite beer no matter what part of the world you are in work? Short answer: “Yes”. Long answer: “Yes, but we’ll need Sam.”

The Idea part II

January 3rd, 2007

The drink known as Beer entered my life later than I care to admit, I was familiar with the drink, but I was not very fond of it. That is until I had my first pint of Guinness in an Irish Pub in the Puerta del Sol district of Madrid, Spain. It was an awakening. Taste buds I didn’t know existed woke up and demanded more. Through my travels around Europe, my knowledge of beer grew. I have my favorites, but they owe Guinness their good fortune.

Fast forward to present time Chicago: Ben and I were about to realize we were drinking our answer. The question: “How can we explore different cultures and countries while getting paid?” During this dilema, we were drinking Yebisu Black Beer he brought back from Japan. Yebisu Black Beer is one of the reasons I keep going back to Japan. “Wouldn’t it be great,” I said, “if we can get Yebisu here in the USA?” Heck, maybe it is available and we just don’t know which bar has it. “Too bad,” we said, “there isn’t a service that allows you to find out if the beer you want is available near your location.”

Eureka! Our GREAT idea is born.

The Idea

January 2nd, 2007

There are no good or bad ideas. Each idea in your head has the necessary nutrients to grow into your GREAT idea. The idea for BeerBin.com originated in the desire my College roommate, Ben, and I have to travel the world and explore as many cultures as possible. Every culture has its unique food, architecture, wonders, values and drinks (all of which we want to experience). As we talked about places we want to visit and memories we want to create, it dawned on us that there is not one job we can point to and say “That job will allow us to travel the globe and pay us to explore different cultures.” Well, I guess that only leaves us with one option: create “that job.” But how do we create that job? It turns out we were sitting on the answer…more accurately, we were drinking from it: Beer.

So it begins…

January 1st, 2007

What fascinates me the most about all this is how a crazy idea turned into a sane idea. This is the story of BeerBin.com. A story that has a beginning but has no ending (yet). Join us as we take an idea that was conceived at a bar and nurture it until it becomes what dreams are made of.