Ideas are just a multiplier of execution (2005)

Re:Ideas are just a multiplier of execution (2005) by bern4444 on Tuesday December 14, 2021 @11:44AM (#29553679)

It seems to me that execution is the multiplier. If an idea is worth $20, the execution is what multiples that idea to a far greater value.

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Re:Ideas are just a multiplier of execution (2005) by kurthr on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @12:59PM (#29569346)

I guess I'd argue that the best execution (immediate, complete, free) can only get 100% out of an idea... adequate execution gets 80% of margin$ out of the idea, while poor execution gets <10% and leaves room for better executing competition to squeeze (market share) in and self-fund future capture of the idea's value. Lots of ideas take time for people to get used to and for demand (and infrastructure) to develop so final scale may be much larger than the initial and to really build efficiently you have to keep executing just enough to capture most of that (hopefully) exponentially growing potential value for the idea.

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Re:Ideas are just a multiplier of execution (2005) by fori1to10 on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @01:08PM (#29569467)

Multiplication is commutative

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Re:Ideas are just a multiplier of execution (2005) by ModernMech on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @04:30PM (#29571880)

Not always. For example matrix multiplication is not.

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