I have come to think that information curation ability may be one of the essential skills needed for many of the people who just started their own business. This may be very well understood among people who have been working in proximity of the "lighter" systems used and payed by general public (e.g. web systems, smartphone apps, etc.), but coming from the "heavier" side of the industry (i.e. ERP business using proprietary packages) where your skills and solutions tend to be highly bound by vendors you work with or by particular system architectures, I was not specifically aware of this aspect of being an entrepreneur.
It's quite simple. In the lighter side of the IT business, products and components are being developed by uncountable numbers of people all over the world day in and day out and those are often open-source and are readily available in unrestrictive terms. You could also try to develop your own things, but the best bet to maximize the value of your output is to put existing products or components together to cater to the needs of specific market where your specialty resides. This is not the case when you lock yourself in to work on specific product by a vendor (e.g. SAP) as your collaboration options with other companies are inevitably limited due to protective terms fixed by the vendor.
As someone who is running a start-up company with no solid products/services (they have yet to be prepared) or solid business history in the past, and as someone who wants to bring new values and paradigm into the market, I think it is very important to be able to let the potential customers see what they want by devising the image and that we can provide that very thing. Also, on partnership development and recruiting front, I need to be able to share with people the clear image of what we can do together to create new values. Information curation ability may not be directly related to these things but it is probably the basic skill you need for you to set the right business target out of milliards of possibilities and to get people's involvement and commitments.
It may take time for things to take off but this blog is also one of the means/places to show my curation skills, however late I may have been to noticed the importance of it.
