> The latter is what the OP means by “just having an idea is not enough.” That's quite far fetched given the sentence starts with "As any entrepreneur knows".

> The latter is what the OP means by “just having an idea is not enough.” That's quite far fetched given the sentence starts with "As any entrepreneur knows". Society can consider itself fortunate that every valuable scientific finding eventually prevails; but unfortunately - as many cases show - it often takes several publications of the same idea, and the respective earlier authors often fall into oblivion (if known at all).