I had a hard time falling asleep last night so I read through a blog called Can Google Hear Me which I found on the digg frontpage.

It’s written by Aaron Stanton who managed to pitch his business idea to Google, by asking for a meeting in a very creative way. He basically got him self a plane ticket, flew over to Mountain View and showed up in the Googleplex lobby demanding to get an appointment.
It may sound dumb in the first place, but the unique thing about his attempt was that also started a blog, documenting his quest.

Of course he was turned away on his first visit, but as the blog started to get popular, lot’s of people inside the Googleplex got to know about Aaron and within days Google opened it’s doors for him.

The thing that can be learned from Aaron, and why I’m writing about this, is that there is a big difference between just having a good idea and actually pursuing it to make it real. There a millions of people with great ideas and great dreams, but only very few step up and take the risk to fail.

I actually read about this a few weeks ago, but forgot to publish this post.