Ecosystems entered a different realm when Craig Venter, et al recently launched a new species with DNA that was designed first virtually and then built … if this can be done in biological systems, it would be several orders of magnitude easier to do it with business models. Of course, we SHOULD design startups in the virtual world … for the same reason that it works better to work in the virtual world when launching new products.

It didn't used to be … 5 years ago, 10 years ago … social communities were too new …before Wikipedia, Facebook and Twitter, we didn't have enough history with them to understand how they worked, where they worked, why they worked. A lot of them didn't work … remember Friendster?

Guy Kawasaki talks about 10 slides — 20 minutes — 30 pt font for launching a biz idea … a powerpoint might actually be too “old school,” maybe the pitch should be a 5 minute video on YouTube … if an entrepreneur could do this BEFORE her/his business plan is actualized and instead pitch the idea to a trusted, validated, QUALIFIED “shark tank” of fellow entrepreneurs and potential investors, it would seem possible that we could come up with ideas [and possibly teams] that have at least a degree of testing/collaboration before the entrepreneur invests ANY capital and starts crossing the line to the real world.

The question that I have is how to do we come up with this trusted, validated, QUALIFIED “shark tank” of fellow entrepreneurs and potential investors … this idea seems so obvious to me, that I'm certain that there are people who are already doing something like like this … if there are, I'd be interested in learning more.

Ecosystems entered a different realm when Craig Venter, et al recently launched a new species with DNA that was designed first virtually and then built … if this can be done in biological systems, it would be several orders of magnitude easier to do it with business models. Of course, we SHOULD design startups in the virtual world … for the same reason that it works better to work in the virtual world when launching new products.

It didn't used to be … 5 years ago, 10 years ago … social communities were too new …before Wikipedia, Facebook and Twitter, we didn't have enough history with them to understand how they worked, where they worked, why they worked. A lot of them didn't work … remember Friendster?

Guy Kawasaki talks about 10 slides — 20 minutes — 30 pt font for launching a biz idea … a powerpoint might actually be too “old school,” maybe the pitch should be a 5 minute video on YouTube … if an entrepreneur could do this BEFORE her/his business plan is actualized and instead pitch the idea to a trusted, validated, QUALIFIED “shark tank” of fellow entrepreneurs and potential investors, it would seem possible that we could come up with ideas [and possibly teams] that have at least a degree of testing/collaboration before the entrepreneur invests ANY capital and starts crossing the line to the real world.

The question that I have is how to do we come up with this trusted, validated, QUALIFIED “shark tank” of fellow entrepreneurs and potential investors … this idea seems so obvious to me, that I'm certain that there are people who are already doing something like like this … if there are, I'd be interested in learning more.