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"Actually, startup ideas are not million dollar ideas, and here's an experiment you can try to prove it: just try to sell one. Nothing evolves faster than marke
by jiganti 16y ago
"Actually, startup ideas are not million dollar ideas, and here's an experiment you can try to prove it: just try to sell one. Nothing evolves faster than markets. The fact that there's no market for startup ideas suggests there's no demand. Which means, in the narrow sense of the word, that startup ideas are worthless"
No, this is flawed logic. If you try to sell an idea, the act of selling it means it's not worth anything, because the worth of an idea depends on peoples' willingness to keep it secret.
Articles saying ideas are worthless are a dime a dozen, because great ideas are so scarce. Most decent ideas need great execution, and a lot of great ideas need good execution since they are easily copyable (so if they don't gain a ridiculous amount of traction, someone else can come win the new space).
- benbinary 16y agoThe ideas are worthless argument has been made more than enough, that's not the purpose of this post. I think your argument that "Most decent ideas need great execution, and a lot of great ideas need good execution since they are easily copyable" makes sense. My goal, and the purpose of this post, is to share my ideas, for the motivations explained in the post.
- Ras_ 16y agoMy candidate for a valuable idea with no real need of exceptional execution: The Million Dollar Homepage "Many other sites sell advertising by pixels. Tew said of the sites, "[they] popped up almost immediately; now there are hundreds of Web sites selling pixels. The copycats are all competing with each other." "They have very little ads, therefore I guess it’s not going too well for them. The idea only works once and relies on novelty. Any copy-cat sites will only have pure comedy value, whereas mine possibly has a bit of comedy plus. So I say good luck to the imitators."" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage