Innovations do not happen in a vacuum.
There has to be a gradual process, human beings respond slowly to change in the familiar. If your ideas come from too far out in the future and it doesnt look so close to what they have on ground now, you are in danger of alienating the people you set out to serve.
Innovators also tend to dream up ideas that just won’t work because they are just not practical and cannot break through existing barriers.
Some people that consider themselves as “techies” or “tech entrepreneurs” think that all they need to do is to build an app. Just build an app and all the problems will go away… Make a slick interface, make it location-aware and use various APIs to add some more awesomeness into the product.
You end up with a beautiful app that is practically useless for all intents and purposes.
They missed it because they developed these things in a vacuum, without feedback from the people they were building it for.
When I see people pitching ideas that would have been useful but now implemented badly, I usually observed that they didn’t pay enough attention to the domain.
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