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sometimes you say? it is always about execution being passionate about things that nobody wants, and disrupting things nobody cares about will get you nowhere.

sometimes you say? it is always about execution being passionate about things that nobody wants, and disrupting things nobody cares about will get you nowhere. a low margin grocery store fulfills a need and thats why they are everywhere.

phil21 10y ago
Ideas are utterly worthless. Execution is everything. I freely give every single idea (some actually valuable!) I've ever had away for free. Because I know if someone is better at implementing it than I am, they are the ones who provided the world value. Not me for dreaming it up and then doing nothing about it - there are millions of me's, and ideas without execution are not interesting.
- nostalgiac 10y ago
  >Ideas are utterly worthless. >I freely give every single idea (some actually valuable!) A solid contradiction ;) But I understand your intentions.
  - yellowbeard 10y ago
    I guess value and worth can have subtlety different meanings
  - deleted 10y ago
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  - phil21 10y ago
    Ha. Good point :)
- elastic_church 10y ago
  I give most of my ideas away, since I've ruled them out as not being optimal uses of my own time. I've done the teeth pulling NDA and noncompetes with a lot of people, just so they would tell me their original idea that I'm contractually bound not to copy for a limited time in a limited geographic area or tell anyone about. And I realized how unoriginal all of them are. If they weren't so concerned about people copying their idea they would have gotten feedback on it a lot sooner for the simple answer of "Hey, Spotify does this already, did you check the menu options?" running completely counter to their market research and conclusion that "nobody" is doing this and its "huge".
- mrep 10y ago
  Tell that to the Winklevoss twins
kbenson 10y ago
I guess if you only value ideas by the money that ends up in your pocket in the end, then sure, ideas a worthless and execution is the only thing that matters.

phil21 10y ago

Ideas are utterly worthless. Execution is everything. I freely give every single idea (some actually valuable!) I've ever had away for free. Because I know if someone is better at implementing it than I am, they are the ones who provided the world value. Not me for dreaming it up and then doing nothing about it - there are millions of me's, and ideas without execution are not interesting.

nostalgiac 10y ago
>Ideas are utterly worthless. >I freely give every single idea (some actually valuable!) A solid contradiction ;) But I understand your intentions.
- yellowbeard 10y ago
  I guess value and worth can have subtlety different meanings
- deleted 10y ago
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- phil21 10y ago
  Ha. Good point :)
elastic_church 10y ago
I give most of my ideas away, since I've ruled them out as not being optimal uses of my own time. I've done the teeth pulling NDA and noncompetes with a lot of people, just so they would tell me their original idea that I'm contractually bound not to copy for a limited time in a limited geographic area or tell anyone about. And I realized how unoriginal all of them are. If they weren't so concerned about people copying their idea they would have gotten feedback on it a lot sooner for the simple answer of "Hey, Spotify does this already, did you check the menu options?" running completely counter to their market research and conclusion that "nobody" is doing this and its "huge".
mrep 10y ago
Tell that to the Winklevoss twins

kbenson 10y ago

I guess if you only value ideas by the money that ends up in your pocket in the end, then sure, ideas a worthless and execution is the only thing that matters.