LTYM - 3,500 Good Ideas

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Letters to a Young Manager

3,500 Good Ideas, #100
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Please note that this letter is in-process; the following are my notes

Dear Sophie,

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Lee's comment that it takes 3,500 good ideas before you get 1 economically feasible one.

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References...

Takeaways:

It takes a whole lot of creating for a single success

Discussion Questions:

For Further Reading:

He listed the various stages that ideas went through to produce a viable invention and the estimated reductions then calculated it in reverse:
- mulling over various possibilities that might benefit from a new product
- brainstorming for ideas
- select a few for more analysis
- selecting only a few of those for building/exploring more in depth and prototyping
- exploring the financial realities and markets goes in here somewhere
- getting through the patent process was also in here somewhere
- determining those that could be manufactured cost effectively
- marketing and selling the product.
- and then, if you are lucky and skillful, it actually turns into a viable product.

This is from a very long time ago and I have probably missed some steps.
I doubt he was the source of this method but have no idea where it came from." --Lee, 1/8/23 email