> Oh really? How many successful entrepreneurs have you heard of without ideas, just totally empty heads and whole bunch of hustle? This is because we are goin

> Oh really? How many successful entrepreneurs have you heard of without ideas, just totally empty heads and whole bunch of hustle? This is because we are going about it backwards. A successful entrepreneur obviously became successful by executing on some idea. That says little about what came first: the desire to strike out on their own or the flash of an idea. My guess is that there is a fair percentage of both these cases plus the third case where someone was forced into being an entrepreneur (I put Google in that category). So yes, ideas matter but when used as a criteria to decide whether to startup or not, they are an artificial barrier.