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Work on building up your personal brand equity. In less buzzwordy terms, build up your social network, become known for your opinions, and develop an audience of some sort. Gary Vaynerchuk's videos are worth watching on this topic - http://www.garyvaynerchuk.com/

I follow a lot of people on Twitter who aren't working on a specific idea right now, but when they do, you can bet I'll be checking it out and cheerleading for them! The same applies for those following me. Become known, get us to follow you and enjoy what you have to say, and then when you DO get "that big idea" you'll actually have some users and publicity out of the gate :)

With that said, if you /do/ have a Twitter account or whatever, link us up! But your blog only seems to have one post..



Yeah, this is something I'm working on. You've reminded me to fix my blog index - I meant to hint at previous posts without just doing a huge dump of entries.

That said, I just set it up after I left my job, and I haven't really started. I just have three mostly pointless posts (mostly for myself) to get the ball rolling. I'm definitely more tech side than entrepreneur (so far?).

http://friendfeed.com/bretthoerner




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