Do you want to be an idea machine?

The Start Up Writer CHAPTER THREE

It was impossible to get a conversation going,

everybody was talking too much.

~Yogi Berra

There was a man who owned a small store in a small town. The store had been in his family for three generations, one of those mainstays of Main Street, a cornerstone of the community.

One day, he got a call from a big executive from a big corporation who said, “I want to buy you out.”