The recipe for food startup success goes beyond cooking up a great tasting product. Three critical ingredients for success are blending a great product idea with a food startup accelerator and the resources of a Fortune 500 company.
Often I feel like I’m the only one on a one man team. If it weren’t for me, the sidelined bench warmer, goading the opposing batters up to bat; I would swear I had lost my edge to win. I’m the one player on every team who’s only chance at being first, was to show up to practice before anyone else did. Over the decades of being benched I’ve developed a confidence in my ability at spotting out winners that are bound to become champions.Â
It really isn’t hard to find winning ideas, just search media for new ideas you've come up with, which after exhaustive search, will confirm, most likely, you have an original idea not thought up yet. Over the years I’ve continued to search for clues as to which new idea to pursue, which might become mainstream and which one’s I can no longer pursue. It usually took a couple of years to find confirmation that an idea no longer was original and that other’s had already clued into the emerging trend. However, today the idea cycle has shortened because of the internet and the lack of online privacy.
In any case I’m so sure that if any of my ideas were given a fair chance (I would be willing to guarantee) I’d at least hit the ball 100% of the time. Whether it’s a foul or home run, I’ll never know, unless I’m given a fair chance at bat. I believe through persistence eventually I can knock one out of the park. It should be abundantly clear that my refusal to charge the pitcher every time they intentionally pelted and forced me to do the walk of shame, only to be called out religiously by the first base umpire, does not deter my spirit to persevere on. For I know the true meaning of team cannot be realized by one person working alone. In any case if I don’t hit a home run this time, I know can always reinvent myself a thousand times over, each idea better than before, eventually one is bound to be a home run.
