I came across the story of Larry Page. He is one of the founders of Google and a Michigan Alumni. The story is actually really fasinating because of how the idea came about. In IS 449 we have learned many different ways of using other people's work and making it our own. Basically, taking what other people have done and putting our personal twist to it. That is what Page talks about in this articile. He just took something that already was invented and made it better. He is an inventor to some degree, but i would call it a prefecter (if that is a word) He basicaly perfected the search engine and then just went crazy from there.
This give me some hope because it is not just coming up with something from scratch, but just taking other ideas out there and perfecting it. So for me and my online store i just need to come up with a unique way of running compared to all my competition. Because it is all about being different than your competition that will help you to succeed.