We live in the entrepreneurial community and therefore are constantly hearing words like scalability, ROI, competitive advantage, etc., all the while poor people around the world are coming up with great innovations.These people are not concerned with raising venture money or licensing their ideas. They are simply coming up with ideas to help them solve a problem that they face every day.
As we attend great OEN events like Angel Oregon, PubTalk and Venture Northwest I encourage you to follow your ideas and dreams, but also at some point realize that not all great ideas need every essential element of what we deem to be the perfect business model. Watch this TED video and see how poverty is not hindering innovation, but rather creating some of the most innovative solutions to everyday problems.
http://www.ted.com/talks/anil_gupta_india_s_hidden_hotbeds_of_invention.html