That’s a question I asked myself earlier this week, as I struggled to balance my daily work life with my burgeoning entrepreneurial life. I have to believe it’s a common question that entrepreneurs ask themselves at some point in the process of developing/launching a new business. For me, the question arose because my original idea has begun to grow and develop. In fact, it’s merging with another, separate idea that I had floating around in my head.
(Side Note: I realize, of course, that it may be difficult to understand exactly what I mean, as I am still being exceptionally vague about what I’m up to. I hope you can understand and go with the flow for a while, because I don’t think I can reveal the concept until I have it firmly pinned down and am a little farther down the road.)
So, this morphing of my original idea into a larger idea is leading to some trepidation on my part. Having accepted a new, full-time job, can I really pull off the launch of an idea that is getting bigger? Does this “bigger” idea even make sense? Should I keep the “merging” ideas separate after all?
While I work on answering these questions for myself, I plan to continue my background research. Because my plan involves launching a nonprofit organization (that’s about as specific as I’m going to get for a while), I decided to find some helpful resources related to launching or finding support for a nonprofit. I’ll include a full list of what I found in my next post, but I wanted to point out one in particular:
Stanford Social Review Article on “Creating High Impact Nonprofits”
This article is a precursor to the book Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits by Leslie Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant. I’m sure some of you are well aware of this book or own a copy. If not, however, this article is a great (and free) summary.
Next week: Back on schedule, I will share some advice and insight I’ve received during my recent research and background interviews.