Do you remember when….

Do you remember when…..

• there wasn’t such a thing as an iPhone, let alone a cellphone. Remember when you actually had to plan a time to call someone?
• you had to be home at 8pm on Friday night to catch your favorite show because there was no TIVO or on-demand?
• there was no Starbucks?
• you had to visit each of your favorite sites on a regular basis to see if they were updated because RSS hadn’t been thought of yet?
• there was no mapquest or turn-by-turn GPS?
• only the rich and privleged had access to Harvard, Stanford or MIT?
• AltaVista was your search engine of choice?
• you taped your favorite song off the radio when it came on?
• there was no way you’d fill up a 20GB hard drive?
• voting in a presidential election you had the choice of one old white guy or another old white guy?
• it cost too much to quit your job and do something you loved.
• you lost track of friends because Facebook and MySpace were still figments of imagination?

My point is that things change. Business models come and go. Ideas spring from all walks of life.

A majority of the things above weren’t even around 10 years ago. What are you doing right now to prepare your business (and yourself) to be successful in the next 10 years? Do you have a plan? Your business could be gone in the blink of an eye (just ask Blockbuster). Why are you still sitting on that great idea? Get out and get moving. Take action. Talk is cheap.