When you first sit down and start dreaming about the website or product you want to release upon the world, you soon find that your dream has alot of flaws. A great example of this is CitySearch.Com when they first came to market they had a grand vision of becoming a hot bed of business listings for anyone who needed to find anything from a great place to eat to help from an attorney. One problem there dream became a bloated nightmare over time. They have now sunk into nothing more than a bloated online phonebook. What happened ? there dream was so clear yet they turned into something that there founders would have never imagined a few years ago. Two words Buy Out . When they sold there company to AOL a few years back they turned a corner and havent looked back since. They are now headed down a road that they cannot come back from. for most people citysearch is there only viable search engine for finding local businesses. When you start a business you have a dream but what happens to that dream when you walk away . Do you start another dream and forget about your past glory or do you hold onto it and transform it from a dream into an empire. Both are difficult at best. Googles founders have turned there dream into an empire based exactly on this philosophy. If you truly believe in your dream you can turn it into an empire. But if you dont it will turn into your nightmare.
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