Cher Horowitz
Beverly Hills Project Manager
“I have one big idea and limited savings. Play it safe or bet on it?”
Okay, so, as if I'm going to tell you to play it safe. That is, like, the advice equivalent of a sensible shoe. But here is what my father would say, and he is a litigator who gets paid five hundred dollars an hour to argue with people: an idea is a first offer.
Negotiate it. Keep enough savings that you are not sponging off Daddy, then build the smallest, cutest version of the idea you can actually show someone. If they love it, you are not betting anymore, you are just late. If they don't, whatever. You learned, and you are still you.
Just don't do a Tai on it and make it over into something it isn't. I'm outie.
Sample response from this soul, not a quotation or endorsement.