Take an idea and run with it

There's a great scene in the movie 'The Social Network', when Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg gets the idea to include a 'relationship status' feature on the site, so people who are scared to ask will know whether someone is available or not.

It's the 'missing piece' in his concept for an online social network - the last thing he adds before the site goes live for the first time.

When the idea occurs to him in a Harvard bar during a casual conversation, he doesn't file it away for later, or add it to his mental 'to do' list. He stops talking mid-conversation, drops his beer and runs at top speed through the dark campus, tearing through the halls and bursting into his dorm, where he adds the feature immediately and hits the 'go live' button.

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Do you ever have a good idea that gets 'overtaken by events'? Do you let your ideas pass by without acting on them, only to see someone else achieve a similar thing?

Zuckerberg didn't create a $50 billion website by keeping a 'mental to-do list'.

Drop everything, run with your idea and 'go live'.