"Many copy concepts but fail to find a differentiator.
She found a cone-making factory and supplied them with the chocolate to put inside the cone tips.
She next started making cereal snacks, a product borne out of her love for cereal snacks and her frustration over them getting soggy after a time.
Her solution was to coat the cereal in an oil-based glaze to lock in the crunch."
That's how one woman identified the big idea and quit her marketing job to focus on her business, Selecta Cornetto ice cream cones filled with chocolate-filled cone tips and glazed cereal.
Now, two years later, her cereal snacks are outselling the ice cream cone snacks in her native Philippines, Fast Company reports.
"It did so well that she quit her marketing job at a large company to focus on the business.
This is how a good entrepreneur will identify the big idea," the president of Selecta Cornetto tells Fast Company.
"Many copy concepts but fail to find a differentiator.
She found a cone-making factory and supplied them with the chocolate to put inside the cone tips.
She next started making cereal snacks, a product borne out of her love for cereal snacks and her frustration over them getting soggy after a time.
Her solution was to coat the cereal
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