The Big Boys Buy Their Ideas

Ok, they got me.  After watching Google Wave and Voice fizzle I believed that the online behemoth could actually be crazy enough to buy and brand something like Google Motion:

I’m all about jumping on the next technology bandwagon, but I just couldn’t imagine licking two fingers and slapping my knee in the middle of a presentation.  And because I assumed Google probably paid $150 million for this toy, I finally decided to approach them with my concept for a word processor that only responds to yodels.

Big Boys like Google are smart enough to realize that almost all innovation in this country comes from entrepreneurs of lower middle market companies.   Innovation is MIA in most of the Fortune 5000; their decision process on new ideas is often like a barge trying to do a 180  in a retention pond.   Not so with Entrepreneurs.  An Economy Hero risks it all to design, develop and prove a product so that the Googles of the world will buy and invest the required resources to scale it.

Innovation is one of the reasons why we love our Entrepreneurs; that along with the fact they generate over 85% of jobs.  And even though I swallowed Google’s April Fools ruse, I’m relieved to know thousands of offices won’t (temporarily) be full of employees miming in front of their laptops.