Re:Ideas are not worthless
by m0nty on Saturday March 15, 2008 @11:52AM
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"Ideas are not worthless."
Yes they are. They only become valuable when you work on them and make them into something people find useful. You can have a brilliant idea and watch it die on poor implementation and marketing, and a crumby one and make [m|b]illions from it. What's kind of fun and surprising about the Web 2.0 phenomenon is watching apparently weak ideas taking on a life of their own and becoming something interesting and useful.
Anyway, regardless of the merit of an idea in itself, can we all agree it's getting a bit tedious when people come to YC news and say "I've got a fabulous idea but no programming skills and I'd like to know where to take it. BTW, I won't tell you what it is"? I'd characterise that as attention seeking or border-line trolling.
Yes they are. They only become valuable when you work on them and make them into something people find useful. You can have a brilliant idea and watch it die on poor implementation and marketing, and a crumby one and make [m|b]illions from it. What's kind of fun and surprising about the Web 2.0 phenomenon is watching apparently weak ideas taking on a life of their own and becoming something interesting and useful.
Anyway, regardless of the merit of an idea in itself, can we all agree it's getting a bit tedious when people come to YC news and say "I've got a fabulous idea but no programming skills and I'd like to know where to take it. BTW, I won't tell you what it is"? I'd characterise that as attention seeking or border-line trolling.