Actually, if we treat "ideas" as more than just the starting notion, but the myriad small decisions and vision of user behavior, and we look at the ecosystems o

Actually, if we treat "ideas" as more than just the starting notion, but the myriad small decisions and vision of user behavior, and we look at the ecosystems of Startups, then "potentially good ideas" look a lot more scarce. The crowdfunding landscape is a great example. The "good idea" isn't about needing crowdfunding for x, it includes all of the decisions about incentives that make them work (or not). When the world is full of startups bouncing over really working through a problem and their vision of a solution - which is happening more and more in my experienc - it's not a straw man to make an argument that dismissing the value of ideas weakens the startup ecosystem