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As a person with a lot of ideas and very little money, I don't like it as much. NOTE: This isn't about what makes money. It's about what makes heroes.
by gt_ 9y ago
As a person with a lot of ideas and very little money, I don't like it as much.
NOTE: This isn't about what makes money. It's about what makes heroes.
- greglindahl 9y agoIt takes money to make money.
- bigiain 9y agoYou don't have to like it (most ideas guys" wont).But you do need to acknowledge it's inevitable financial truth. If you don't have ideas that someone else buys, you'll remain the person with all the ideas and none of the money. (And if your ideas are "heroic", it will 100% take a hero to fund them...) I really like that phrase, because it takes the "conventional startup wisdom" that "ideas without execution are worthless" to the next and obvious-to-outsiders step - even a well executed idea than nobody will pay for - is, by definition, worthless.
- rtpg 9y agoEven without the money angle, you still need to convince people that your idea is good in order for it to have "real" value (as in: be used). Ideas are mostly worthless without proponents.
- gt_ 9y agoAll fair points here; nothing I don't agree with. I'm not sure they counter what I said, though. As an artist, most of my ideas are artistic and don't require money for the translation to value, but they still require time and skill. I constantly face the reality that I still have to make the art. However we downplay ideas, it remains diappointing how many people lack them, and how often money undermines them.
- jacobolus 9y agoFor an idea-buyer hero, how about Licklider? https://amzn.com/0670899763/ https://amzn.com/0670899763/