What follows after a great idea?

Question

Ok, so, there is a lot of talk about startups and new businesses. However, despite the number of sources I read, I can't figure out where to now. I have several great ideas for products, small-batch start up. Eventually an UNfinished plan for expansion and so on, but I am just sitting around with these ideas in my head and don't know what/where to continue.Do you register the company first? But how do you register, if you have no personal capital, and would depend on VC funding. Do you look for partners/co-founders first? . . .Where does one go after the birth of a great idea? Is there a step-by-step guide for making your own business?

jerome-jh · Accepted Answer

There has been so many posts about this. I remember one about a university teacher talking to his/her students along those lines:
- take a week to put your ideas, sub-ideas and as much details as possible _on paper_
- _then_, turn to the internet and see what already exists, analyse how they did things, how it differs or resembles what you envisioned
- modify your own project based on that analysis
I cannot remember the rest, but you have the main points on how to handle "the idea". As to start a company, the moto is mostly: talk to customers and adapt.