Today I’m looking forward to my weekly ritual of visiting the Ale Emporium for dinner with a group of my closest friends.  Sure, the weekly gathering started because a $7 steak dinner with all the fixings is hard to beat.  However if it wasn’t for the deal we would still get together for the conversation.  The staples of our get togethers are the usual taboo subjects: sex, money, politics, and religion. 

But we also spend a lot of time discussing work, career paths, and the entrepreneurial inklings that so many of my friends have.  Most of our talk is just talk, with little desire for it to turn into reality, but every once in a while an idea comes along that really does have teeth and could be plausible, even if we don’t win the lottery.  Which leads me to the question I have for all of you…what took you over the edge?  Why or how did you go from talking about the idea for your business to living it?