Recently I got a chance to talk to Megan Casey, co-founder of squidoo.com.
My favorite part of the conversation is when Megan talked about difference between having an idea and a vision. An Idea is something that strikes you in the night and you go “ooh!! that can be a lot of fun”. A vision is when you’ve taken your idea and started to articulate it, you’ve started to write it down and spec it out may be bounce it off a few people, but for the most part it is your vision. You start to come up with texture on how you are going to make it happen – these are the resources I need, this is the problem I am going to solve.
The biggest suggestion Megan had for all budding entrepreneurs is to have some discipline to take yourself to the point where you can say I have a vision and you can confidently tell the rest of the world what your vision is. As oppose to just saying that there’s this little thing I want to do or I am part of this team I or something like I work at Google – well, that in itself can be answer these days but you work at Google – why? what do you do everyday? what’s your vision?.
The minute you think of yourself as somebody with a vision that’s kind of empowering. It changes how you describe what you are doing, it changes how you care about what you are starting.
Below is the complete women2.0 video conversation with Megan: