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"Just Do It!" :-)

                                    

Walking away from the "Web 2.0 Summit",  I took a few things away with me.   The most important one is to borrow from the Nike catch phrase "Just Do It"....  

I've talked to quite a few startups.. They have some good ideas, some great ones, and some you scratch your head and wonder... but the thing in common is they "just do it".    That is, they go for it. They build out the vision, the plan and go for it.     

The point is, I know many great ideas within our product and engineering teams in Mountain View, Dulles - everywhere.    So instead of asking for permission, I say prototype and "just do it".          Heck, many of these startups are nothing more than prototypes.

Obviously this is all within reason......... but the point is - if you believe, if you have passion in a feature or product then "Just Do It!"............   

Comments

Anonymous said…
right on brotha
November 8, 2006 at 9:32 PM
Anonymous said…
Love to hear this, let me add one of my own; "do the right thing!". :)
November 9, 2006 at 12:35 AM
Anonymous said…
Present culture at AOL has a heavy budget approval process associated with every task or project. Agreed - that's linked to the capitalization machine, and necessary in the present think, but if this is going to work, everyone will need to accept this and just let the minds create. Can you grease the way so that we *can* "just do it"?
November 9, 2006 at 4:52 AM
Anonymous said…
Because we'd love to "just do it!".
November 9, 2006 at 5:00 AM
Anonymous said…
Word.
November 9, 2006 at 9:15 AM
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