a bit of bonhomie

I’ve had a good week, focussed and positive. The business idea is what I’ve been working on. My imagination is firing on all cylinders on it, and it all seems to be gelling together very well. I’ve written up a six-page explanatory document, and put it on the web with a password, with a natty javascript poor-man’s-flash welcome screen that took me ages to get right. Hopefully it gives a good first impression, to those few people I’m going to be showing it to over the next few weeks. I figure it will be another couple of months before I reveal to the blogo’sphere what the business is. No one serious about business minds competition, but only when you are strong enough to withstand it. If someone copies my idea now and runs with it and sets up something similar before me, then I simply don’t have the resources to launch. Being first is important, but not essential, as I read here, courtesy of Dave. I’ve had good ideas in the past, and one worked very well in the mid-nineties, running a couple of websites when I seemed to be ahead of the posse in terms of knowing geeky stuff. It was niche market stuff, no dreams of world domination, but it got me through college. Similarly, this current plan of mine is for a business that could do quite well, but it is definitely for a niche market, and only really for Ireland. There has to be a personal touch to it, big and corporate is not where it’s at. But I have serious intentions of cornering the market completely, which is a bit cheeky, but do-able. Hence the coyness here.

My temperament is mostly bohemian, artistic, intuitive, too intense for this planet at times, and I’ve avoided being a serious businessman in the past, because money has never been what has motivated me. It might also have something to do with the fact that I’m allergic to doing accounts. (So, this time around, I’ll work with someone else who enjoys that side of things.) For more years than he cares to remember, however, I’m my father’s son, and that has been both daunting and inspiring. Now well into happy retirement at 85, it is truly amazing how good Harry Moore’s reputation still is, how many people say they used to buy their radios and televisions from him, and how nice a man he was to deal with. It is a matter of enormous pride for me.