{"id":1479,"date":"2007-02-21T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-02-21T19:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/?p=1479"},"modified":"2014-08-27T07:48:45","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T12:48:45","slug":"how-do-you-get-from-idea-to-action","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/2007\/02\/how-do-you-get-from-idea-to-action.html","title":{"rendered":"How do you get from the idea to the action?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our Friend Nairobi Paul has given me an idea, with his post Biz idea<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Heather had a great idea of starting an import-export business between Kenya and the US. We’d fill up a shipping container with this artist’s furniture and sell it through an exclusive group of stores in appropriate shopping areas in the States. (Denver – think Cherry Creek.)<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>Shoot, if shipping wasn’t so expensive, we’d send a bunch back for our own use!<\/p>\n

One huge problem is just figuring out all the problems. One small example – the beautiful wood is probably banned from export. (Can you say “governmental laws to prevent deforestation”?)<\/p>\n

By the way, this is another example of a “jua kali” (hot sun) artisan. The storeroom floor is indeed dirt and grass. (Hey – it’s pretty low overhead.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, my idea is not for an import\/export business, but for an article on how to go from the raw idea, like this one, to a concrete action. What are your thoughts?<\/span> What would you do first? What specific steps, and what general lessons can you and I dream up together?<\/p>\n

Yes, I mean you! You, personally! <\/span>Please, share your thoughts in a comment or an email.<\/p>\n

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Our Friend Nairobi Paul has given me an idea, with his post Biz idea. Heather had a great idea of starting an import-export business between Kenya and the US. We’d fill up a shipping container with this artist’s furniture and sell it through an exclusive group of stores in appropriate shopping areas in the States. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,28,13],"tags":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1479"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8244,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1479\/revisions\/8244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smallbizsurvival.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}