Nah, the price of stale ideas and rehashes is very low. When there's a new big idea and big success, it is very highly valued (look at Blogger, del.icio.us, et

Nah, the price of stale ideas and rehashes is very low. When there's a new big idea and big success, it is very highly valued (look at Blogger, del.icio.us, etc when they were released and bought vs now). The point of a startup is to validate an idea in the market. A validated idea is worth MUCH more than an unvalidated one, but when you copy a validated idea, you're also competing against the people that validated it, which brings a whole new set of problems.