It took me many years to realise that experts are not experts at all, just people with opinions based on experience.
Before attempting to get T2G off the ground, I spent too many years listening to the experts telling me an idea wasn’t going to make it. That it had been done before or that there wasn’t a market for it.
And they were probably right……some of the time.
People with experience should be listened to. They will offer an insight into a particular market or industry. Their suggestions and feedback are important but only in the name of research to help the entreprenuer refine his idea or simply to prove his own stubborness.
Without an ability to ignore the ‘no-brigade’ an idea will remain just that. Stubborness and the desire to prove the doubters wrong is what gave birth to great advances in medicine, technology and business.
From The Beatles to the PC and a lot more before and since, the experts have been proven wrong.
But sometimes, of course, they’re right. If you say ‘no’ often enough the law of chance must prove you right sometime.
So when should ’no’ mean ‘no’ ?
