Duane Adolph
November 11, 2007, 11:49 AM
Phil Thanks for the link to this story. FASCINATING!
I had never heard of this guy before. He's brilliant. I like this quote about his first company he started fresh out of college...
Excerpt:
"The new company that Jones and Carr launched, Boston Technologies, pitched the Baby Bells a product that promised to handle 20 times the call volume of their existing systems, guaranteed 99.998% reliability, and would be delivered in three months at roughly the same cost. Bell Atlantic took them up on the offer. There was just one problem: Their product didn't exist. "Not yet," as Jones likes to say.
"You have to be completely nuts to be as young as we were and say, 'We're going to make a major change to the public telecom system,'" recalls Carr, 47, by phone from Mozambique, where he's making philanthropic investments. "I give Scott a lot of credit for bravery." Jones barely left the office for three months, sleeping under his desk - when he slept at all. But he delivered. In 1998, with revenues up to $105 million, Boston Technologies merged with Comverse and took its name."
How often have we seen businessmen selling something which doesn't exist yet?? Then making a fortune on it.
Thanks Phil my minds a blazin' with ideas from this one.
Scott Jones thinks up more ideas in a month than most folks do in a lifetime. Find out how he makes them pay...
Checkout his slide staircase in his house and his bike as he scans data from eight computer screens... :)
Great continuing story and Fun read... Don't miss a link...
You just might Get a few Brainstorming ideas & Learn a thing or two... ;)
Never give up
Scott Jones doesn't let past misses impede future hits...
http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/08/smbusiness/Scott_Jones.fsb/index.htm?postversion=2007101111
http://www.scottajones.com/
http://www.scottajones.com/index.php?q=entrepreneur_resources
Phil
I had never heard of this guy before. He's brilliant. I like this quote about his first company he started fresh out of college...
Excerpt:
"The new company that Jones and Carr launched, Boston Technologies, pitched the Baby Bells a product that promised to handle 20 times the call volume of their existing systems, guaranteed 99.998% reliability, and would be delivered in three months at roughly the same cost. Bell Atlantic took them up on the offer. There was just one problem: Their product didn't exist. "Not yet," as Jones likes to say.
"You have to be completely nuts to be as young as we were and say, 'We're going to make a major change to the public telecom system,'" recalls Carr, 47, by phone from Mozambique, where he's making philanthropic investments. "I give Scott a lot of credit for bravery." Jones barely left the office for three months, sleeping under his desk - when he slept at all. But he delivered. In 1998, with revenues up to $105 million, Boston Technologies merged with Comverse and took its name."
How often have we seen businessmen selling something which doesn't exist yet?? Then making a fortune on it.
Thanks Phil my minds a blazin' with ideas from this one.
Scott Jones thinks up more ideas in a month than most folks do in a lifetime. Find out how he makes them pay...
Checkout his slide staircase in his house and his bike as he scans data from eight computer screens... :)
Great continuing story and Fun read... Don't miss a link...
You just might Get a few Brainstorming ideas & Learn a thing or two... ;)
Never give up
Scott Jones doesn't let past misses impede future hits...
http://money.cnn.com/2007/10/08/smbusiness/Scott_Jones.fsb/index.htm?postversion=2007101111
http://www.scottajones.com/
http://www.scottajones.com/index.php?q=entrepreneur_resources
Phil
