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Re:Your idea is brilliant, your idea is worthless (2016) by ipiz0618 on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @11:08AM (#27894688)
Yeah I've been there, being the person who executed the idea. It sucked knowing the person giving the "idea" (which I actually gave most of the directions) had so much leisure time for fun, while I was sitting there coding something I'm not interested in. I only execute my own ideas now. Even sometimes I can't finish it, I can only blame myself.
Re:Your idea is brilliant, your idea is worthless (2016) by matheusmoreira on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @12:55PM (#27896206)
> I only execute my own ideas now. Even sometimes I can't finish it, I can only blame myself.

Don't blame yourself. It's okay to not finish something.

Sometimes I just want to prove to myself that something is possible. That I'm not insane for thinking it. Once the result is clear, I usually lose interest. It turns into the exact kind of boring execution work the article's talking about. Better to find some new idea to explore...

Re:Your idea is brilliant, your idea is worthless (2016) by elcomet on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @11:11AM (#27894729)
Well there is much more to do than coding... They should be doing sales and marketing and other stuff. If they're doing nothing, that's a bad sign
Re:Your idea is brilliant, your idea is worthless (2016) by ryandrake on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @12:04PM (#27895473)
Even that's lopsided. Assuming the idea is purely software (no hardware manufacturing involved), then the vast majority of the actual work is to make the product.

I would not accept a 50/50 split where he "has the idea" and I do the software. I wouldn't even accept a 50/50 split if the Idea Partner also does a little sales and marketing. I would maybe accept 50/50 if the Idea Partner also provided all the capital. Now we're talking...

Re:Your idea is brilliant, your idea is worthless (2016) by MajorBee on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @01:12PM (#27896430)
If your "ideas man" has fully committed to doing all the sales/marketing and the dance of raising capital, leaving you to work on the product, I think that's a very fair division of labour. After all, a finished product is almost as worthless as an unexecuted idea if no one ever actually purchases or uses said product. I say almost because, in theory, your product could have enough "obvious" value on its own that you could just sell it to another company and exit comfortably.
Re:Your idea is brilliant, your idea is worthless (2016) by dequor on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @06:19PM (#27900074)
But now they are taking all the risk and it would make sense to just pay you a salary and keep the 100%
Re:Your idea is brilliant, your idea is worthless (2016) by leoc on Tuesday July 20, 2021 @12:55PM (#27896200)
But if anything this an argument in favour of the idea that ideas do have value, as it's equivalent to the situation where the capitalist pays $10,000 to set up the ice cream stand and wanders off while their partner does all the work. The arrangement may be unfair on some level but that's a whole different question.