You have a start-up idea. Now what?
Mz: "Just curious what everyone's process for turning an idea that you just thought of into a real opportunity. Essentially the period between idea generation and actually executing on that idea (if there is a period of time)."Live my life.  Solve my own problems.  Go talk to people and discover that other people have the same problem(s) and their solutions suck compared to mine. Discover there is tremendous need (demand) and some folks are strongly interested in what I do.  Spend a lot of time helping people for free.  Get burned out on that and on being so freakin' controversial.  Take about 2 years off from that while I get myself well and also try to figure out how to package threatening/controversial information so it's palatable -- so it's taken as an opportunity instead of a criticism/personal attack.  Work on figuring out how to monetize it without killing it because you can't pay someone to care about your welfare.  Either they do or they don't.  Realize that the only effective way to commodify what I do is to uncouple the income stream and the output stream -- ie not charge directly for the thing people really want/need from me.  Currently pursuing those efforts as a "hobby" and working on monetizing it.Not exactly a get-rich-quick scheme.  But that's roughly the process I have been going through.