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>One can easily sit and dream up 100 ideas in a day, but one can't develop 100 projects in a day. Exactly, so then - if that one idea - which the dev could put

by phlux 16y ago

>One can easily sit and dream up 100 ideas in a day, but one can't develop 100 projects in a day. Exactly, so then - if that one idea - which the dev could put together using his skills were the billion dollar one - then the IDEA was what was so valuable. Not the fact that he had development skills. I just cant believe that ideas are worthless at all. They are worth what you can make of them - but they are never worthless. You can develop 100 projects, but you also cant develop 1 project without an idea behind it. And then, its the value of the idea, the resultant product or service that has value.

jeromec 16y ago
Billion dollar ideas which are novel and highly advantageous to execute on are very rare, and even then they require more than just having the idea. The founders of Google or YouTube, which could both be considered billion dollar idea/ventures, I'm sure will tell you making their businesses into successes was NOT a cakewalk. Things could have went (and did go) wrong along the way. I just cant believe that ideas are worthless at all. I've already said above I don't believe ideas are always totally worthless. ...but they are never worthless. I disagree. I can generate a list of many totally worthless startup ideas fairly quickly. You still seem to be placing a lot of value in ideas, as if they are the main thing that determines the success of a project. I fundamentally disagree with that, and as evidence of that most successful projects end up looking different than they did when they first started out. I also feel almost like you are suggesting developers are helpless until an "idea person" comes along. Again, I disagree with that. Anyone can have an idea, even great idea, including developers.