Do you know who Scott A. Jones is? You should do if you own a telephone, be it mobile or landline. He is the man who invented voicemail. Interesting fact and yet few people know it even though on any given day more than 10 million voicemail’s are left (no accurate source to this statistic, just a guestamate) and yet this man is not as well known as Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, but to entrepreuners and innovators across the globe, I am sure they know him well, and there is a reason why amongst this breed of people he is well known. “Scott Jones thinks up more ideas in a month than most folks do in a lifetime” this is a quote from the article written about him in the Fortune Small Busines Magazine November 2007. Yet there is nothing small about his business he is worth several million US dollars, oh and you know your iPod and iPhone music players, yep he owns Gracenote the company that makes it!
The reason I mention Mr. Scott A. Jones is he is a man after my own heart and I believe truly describes what a serial enterpreneur is. You have to have a multitude of ideas in order to have success. Unless you have that one Idea which you truly believe is the meal ticket and see it through, but chance are that there were several other ideas before that. I counted recently that from the 11th May to date, I have thought of 5 potential business ideas. Two already rejected, one I have put in my pending file and two which I am working on now which I believe have the most potential. Time will only tell.
The two rejected I thought were potentials. One was the Pringles PushUp Can. I thought that was brilliant, have a can that has a push up tube from the bottom and makes it easier to get to the crisps. P&G said no. Rumor has it they maybe phasing them out, that is only a rumor. Second idea the AlphaNumeric Calculator. That I thought was a great educational tool for people first using a calculator or those who have difficulties reading long numbers. This I came across when doing large calculations and found that if I entered a figure like 560000000, I normally found myself counting the zero’s, makes me sound thick, but you give it a try. So I thought to myself why not have it in text as well. so you have 560000000 and at the bottom level of the screen you have “five hundred and sixty million”. makes total sense, did any of the calculator companies get back to me – No! I even emailed Microsoft and tried to see if they would be interested for their Windows calculator application, again no luck. Oh well I guess another two inventions that never see the light of day.
I wish you wealth, good health, peace and happiness
abillionaire
