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If Ideas are meaningless, then why the first question everyone asks "What is the idea you pursuing?"

• farout 16y ago
  true, they should be asking what market are you pursuing and how will know about you? Meaning how will you convert their "supposed" interest into sales.
• tertius 16y ago
  Keyword: pursuing.
• sdrinf 16y ago
  The idea, and more importantly, the presentation thereof -sales pitch- usually answers by itself a whole range of questions, including: target market & opportunity, positioning, ballpark estimate of market size, competitive advantage; and also, more important co-founding qualities: sales, and marketing quality of the pitcher, and a ballpark estimation on the "level of entrepreneurship" he is. This weeds out 99% of the idea-guys in 2 sentences. They get their obligatory nod, smile, ask a fun poke question, or two, pretend not to know anything about computer voodoo, then proceed striking up a conversation with a more interesting fellow. IFF they pass this, then, and only then, we can proceed to poking more in-depth questions, and sizing up eachother. Otherwise, it's a waste of both of our time.