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But that doesn't at all prove that ideas are useless. It just proves that ideas+execution is what matters. After all, the person who ultimately made the produc
by sendos 17y ago
But that doesn't at all prove that ideas are useless.
It just proves that ideas+execution is what matters. After all, the person who ultimately made the product your friend bought, needed the idea for the product before getting off his butt and executing it.
Just because some people have "great ideas" and never get off their butt to execute them doesn't diminish the value of great ideas to people who do execute.
- apsurd 17y agoYou're missing all the actual work involved in actually executing on that idea. It is only when this process begins do you develop the idea, iterate on it, and uncover new sub-ideas that actually matter or are more integral to money making or bringing it to market etc than the initial "great idea" in the first place. Looking over these comments it seems you are just unwilling to accept that execution is the process of developing an idea into something that has value. All ideas initially are worthless.
- mikecane 17y ago"Ideas are a dime a dozen" turns out to be true. Someone else here pointed to oil companies. Rockefeller was going to drill for oil when he saw what was going on. But then he got a broader perspective and saw that refining the oil would actually be easier (he didn't have to hunt for the oil) and more profitable (middleman status). How much would that idea be worth if he hadn't done it? Zero. The only thing that is "worth" something is what money can buy. I understand your objection, but this is the way it is.