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Support MindFrenzy in the 2008 StartupNation Home-Based Business Competition

Jared O'Toole — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 20:34:51 +0000

Support this site in the competition! If you haven’t been to the main site check it out MindFrenzy.com.

Support MindFrenzy in the 2008 StartupNation Home-Based Business Competition

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Where Do You Go For Advice On Your Ideas?

Jared O'Toole — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 23:42:51 +0000

My first reaction to this is a simple one, friends. However I realized that there isn’t really another place I can go for advice. Sure family isn’t a bad option but all to often they don’t have the right mindset. What fellow entrepreneurs see as creative/fresh, family will see as odd/risky.

Don’t get me wrong, going to friends with my ideas is a great resource. They generally have a lot of great input and begin that process of shaping and shifting that idea into something great. But there doesn’t seem to be an easy way to access more people that think like this online. There’s forums for entrepreneurs and maybe you have a lot of contacts on twitter that are entrepreneurs. But I feel it’s hard to get some fresh input from people I have never met or contacted.

Now I’ve used sites like HalfBakery.com and CreativityPool.com which are open idea forums. The problem is that these sites not only generate responses to your idea at a crawl but provide no other platform to take your idea or relationship with someone on the site.

This is one of my reasons for creating MindFrenzy.com. With the hope that down the road we can combine a vibrant community of innovative thinkers with a way to form relationships to bring ideas to life. Join the community to help us reach these goals.

Where do you go for advice or input on your ideas?

There should be a better place for your ideas. MindFrenzy.com

What’s Your Greatest Fear When Pursuing An Idea?

Jared O'Toole — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:38:45 +0000

Now I think most responses to this would be failure. However when I thought about it I don’t think that would be my answer. For myself I think rejection is my biggest fear when pursuing an idea. It’s not that look strangers give you when you tell them your idea but when you get it from friends and family. The “what the hell are you talking about look”. This rejection from the people you are closest to is scarier then any thought of failing. It’s easy to get rejected by strangers because they were never a source of comfort in the first place, while friends and family are. The worst part is when you get the “look” as they say “that’s a great idea”, “that’s really cool”, but you know they are just thinking your an idiot or still don’t understand what your talking about. I just can’t think of a more awkward worse feeling.

Imagine your greatest source of support and then the feeling of getting rejected by that source. Now that’s scary.

What’s your greatest fear?

Site Launch

Jared O'Toole — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:32:43 +0000

MindFrenzy.com is here! The site launched June 25th and is ready to start developing a creative and inventive community. If you have an idea for anything out there, and we mean anything, please post it on the site and let the community go to work on it. The sites purpose to provide a place to get feedback and advice about an idea. This is key to any idea because in the end its not the idea that counts its what you do with that idea. Please let us know any questions you have about the site or just any comments on the site. The site is a beta verison and will have on-going updates being made to it. All your feedback will go into those updates to try and make this a great site to collaborate with other creative minds.