If you want to make it BIG…..”Think out of the box”…”Think different”…..”Lateral Thinking”…all these terms kind of make me nervous. I even tried reading a book on learning how to think laterally, but it confused me even more.
There is yet another variation to this “making it big” theory, and more applicable in today’s world. I would put it as “think crazy”….when your ‘conscious’ and ‘experienced’ and ‘matured’ mind tells you that something you have in mind is a crazy idea, don’t reject it! You could be the next richest person in the world if you ever make it come true..who knows.
Just to state and example, think of the Microsoft Surface… its a crazy idea..and that’s what I call innovation. At first thought I was awestruck, my ‘practical’ mind pushed me on the negative and I was wondering who is going to use this??? But the very next moment I said ‘you never know…it might be the next big thing’. Look at the ipod. It’s almost a revolution. The American youth cannot live without it. (I am one of the non-American ones!!) I just checked out the latest ipod at my university bookstore today. It’s crazy. No one has yet dared to give 160 gigs and still promise the same performance. I really like this thing about Apple. It’s their unstated but understood policy. “We will sell you this device that will do only these following things, but it will do it really well matter what. Don’t ask for everything in one device” Going back in time, the personal computer was itself a crazy idea. A 20mb of space would be enough for a person till the end of mankind..someone even dared to state that when PCs were just introduced!!
Anyway…the point is that you need to be crazy enough to think of something different and then smart enough to either build it yourself or convincing enough to make someone else build it for you and some other to fund it.
[On an equally serious note,....we do have some crazy ideas that can be implemented. So if you are one of the VCs or someone who thinks like me....please get in touch with us] 
By the way, I have always wondered if this is an irony or it is just a co-incidence, or better still is it really the truth!! How come almost all the people who have made it big (Bill Gates, Steve Jobs etc etc) have been college dropouts or not interested in studying?? 
Sometimes makes me feel that I should follow their footsteps ..HEHE
Signing off…
