If you’re an Entrepreneur/Idea Person living in Nashville and you’re looking for important Nashvillians to follow on Twitter, here are some very potent suggestions. Even if you don’t live in Nashville, you should follow them anyway.
These people are all in the Idea Business. Every day, all day long, they deal with new ideas and developing them into products, companies, books, apps, systems and anything else you can think of. They cover all 3 intellectual styles; Creative, Analytical, and Philosophical.
Their Tweets will supply you with links they feel are important to creativity, thought, and business. Their Tweets will supply you with ways to think about and look at your product or business or new idea from a perspective you may not have come across yet. After a while you’ll begin to get an insight on their thoughts on life in general by what they Tweet and you may be able to apply those to the way you look at the world.
(Dave Stewart doesn’t actually live in Nashville, but he’s here so often, and is becoming an important part of the music scene as well as the Entrepreneurial and Idea scene here, so he gets an official “I Live In Nashville” pass.)
1 – @MichaelrBurcham - Michael Burcham – As the CEO of The Entrepreneur Center and Professor at Vanderbilt University and Vanderbilt’s Owen Graduate School of Management, among the many things he’s involved with, and being a shit-tillionaire from building businesses and business systems, Michael Burcham is King Kong, Michael Jackson, Rocky, The Beatles and Socrates all smushed together to make 1 person. I don’t have the blog space, nor do you have the time for me to detail him. Even a little bit. Yeah. He’s that busy.
2 – @HelloMarko – Mark Montgomery is the “Kick Ass Rock Band” of the Nashville Entrepreneurial scene. With a frontal lobe the size of a small home in the country, his view and take of the big picture and what is on the way and being created in the digital world is uncanny. If you, just this second thought it up, Mark did too, about 3 weeks ago.
3 – @ChrisBlanz - Chris Blanz may be the most creative person I know. My brother, Mitch, usually holds that spot securely while fighting off the aforementioned Mark Montgomery. However, after spending 3 minutes talking about any kind or style of new idea with Chris you’ll think to yourself “Holy Smokes… This might be the most creative guy I’ve ever met…” Guess what? You’re probably right.
4 – @DDeBusk – I talked to David DeBusk for about 45 minutes the first time I met him. It felt like somebody opened the top of my head up, like it was a lid, looked at my brain and said “Oh… hang on a second… There’s a whole section of this thing that isn’t plugged in… There we go… How does everything look now?” You know that line we all attempt to gently balance on, walk quietly around, and whisper in hushed tones about, that separates the analytical side of our brains from the creative side of our brains? He built a Go-Cart track on his.
5 – @DaveStewart & @WeaponsOfME – Dave Stewart is a Polymath. He’s one of those people who accidentally brushes up against something and it starts working or pooping gold. From The Eurythmics to The Blackbird Diaries to TV shows and products, and new ideas, he’s an international force to reckon with. Or better yet, to join with.
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Scott Rouse
As the Entrepreneur In Residence at The Nashville Entrepreneur Center, I meet people with great ideas every day. Ideas for toys, medical devices, weapons and apps. And ideas for babies, sports, travel and pets. Most are truly great. Getting that great idea protected, prototyped and licensed or sold and into an analog or digital store is the goal. To do that you need to pitch that idea to licensees, Venture Capitalists and/or Angel Investors. Helping you learn to do that is the focus of the IdeaBang Blog.
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