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A comment on Paul Buchheit: Ideas vs Judgment and Execution: Climbing the Mountain. Parent comment

Re:Paul Buchheit: Ideas vs Judgment and Execution: Climbing ... by paul on Monday March 31, 2008 @03:28AM (#150845)
Those ideas are obviously good in hindsight, but at the time a lot people thought that they were bad ideas or businesses. (what "idea" is Yahoo btw?)
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Re:Paul Buchheit: Ideas vs Judgment and Execution: Climbing ... by yariv on Monday March 31, 2008 @03:37AM (#150847)
Indeed it's often impossible to know if a new idea could lead to a profitable business (or how profitable that business would be), but at least you can have a good hunch that the idea would be something people want.

The original Yahoo idea was a centralized directory of web pages, wasn't it?

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