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I don't get the point of this post. You liked stalking people's class cards, so that leads you to believe that the next logical step is to create Facebook? Ther
by dkrich 15y ago
I don't get the point of this post. You liked stalking people's class cards, so that leads you to believe that the next logical step is to create Facebook? There is so much fallacy in that logic I don't know where to begin.
First you have to recognize that people enjoy doing it and that there is a potential market for the same idea extended elsewhere (in other words you can build one that is better than what already exists). Then you have to both know how to build a website and have the wherewithal to spend hours, days, and weeks, building an initial working version with proper execution.
That's almost like saying to yourself in 1920 that you always recognized people enjoyed getting from one place to another as fast as they could, and while you were contemplating cool business ideas Henry Ford was in a shed building the Model T.
I know it's been said a billion times, but ideas are fucking worthless. There are an infinite number of brilliant businesses in every industry waiting to be built, but unless you are smart enough to build them, you aren't doing anything worthwhile. Just about everything you use every day could be built better, and not just incrementally better, but revolutionarily better in a way that would promote mass-adoption. But simply knowing that isn't enough to build a billion dollar business. It requires genius to have the vision for the starting point of what that product actually looks like in practice and then knowing how to set it into motion.