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In order: I find a cofounder [EDIT: who is as on board with the idea as I am], set up an agreement with them, incorporate the idea into a company, find product-

In order: I find a cofounder [EDIT: who is as on board with the idea as I am], set up an agreement with them, incorporate the idea into a company, find product-market fit, launch, and grow the company. Pretty much you should think of each idea in these terms. If you don't even have a cofounder, you don't really have much of an idea. [EDIT: Clarification, the following refers to OP's complete, detailed list of many ideas:] Anyone could list enough things to do in a paragraph for it to take all the resources you'll ever come into possession of. Ummm...great. Until you have a cofounder on board with an execution on at least one of them, you don't have shit.

jasallen 13y ago
So, it's infinite work for one person, but infinity / 2 is manageable?
- logicallee 13y ago
  I meant that in reference to the fact that the OP has a "list" of ideas. I might (or might not) have a "list" of ideas and if the list, in addition to easy or more difficult web startup ideas, so much as hinted at asteroid mining (whatever the idea is) or something like the HyperLoop (again no matter what the idea is) - then the overall list is now more resources than I would ever come into contact with through any path. But if instead, I only have a list of cofounders who are on board with specific plans, then I would only have manageable ideas. That is to say, perhaps it is possible to cofound a private space company. But actually doing so is a helluvalot different from putting it in a bulletted list. And I probably wouldn't do so under any circumstances, even if I did have an idea in that space.
  - jasallen 13y ago
    So I agree, some ideas are more manageable than others. But the only thing I'm getting out of your description is that a co-founder validates ideas, because you don't trust yourself to know that Hyperloop is harder than a Reddit clone? Also not sure if you could be fooled into thinking Hyperloop was easy, why you wouldn't be able to find an equally optimistic co-founder.
    - logicallee 13y ago
      Your last sentence gets at the heart of my point. If you wanted me to come on board with your idea that builds on hyperloop, I wouldn't be "agreeing that that's a pretty cool idea and should be on your list." I'd be agreeing to actually build it somehow. So the standard for cofounding something is a million times higher than the standard for putting it into some list of ideas.

jasallen 13y ago

So, it's infinite work for one person, but infinity / 2 is manageable?

logicallee 13y ago
I meant that in reference to the fact that the OP has a "list" of ideas. I might (or might not) have a "list" of ideas and if the list, in addition to easy or more difficult web startup ideas, so much as hinted at asteroid mining (whatever the idea is) or something like the HyperLoop (again no matter what the idea is) - then the overall list is now more resources than I would ever come into contact with through any path. But if instead, I only have a list of cofounders who are on board with specific plans, then I would only have manageable ideas. That is to say, perhaps it is possible to cofound a private space company. But actually doing so is a helluvalot different from putting it in a bulletted list. And I probably wouldn't do so under any circumstances, even if I did have an idea in that space.
- jasallen 13y ago
  So I agree, some ideas are more manageable than others. But the only thing I'm getting out of your description is that a co-founder validates ideas, because you don't trust yourself to know that Hyperloop is harder than a Reddit clone? Also not sure if you could be fooled into thinking Hyperloop was easy, why you wouldn't be able to find an equally optimistic co-founder.
  - logicallee 13y ago
    Your last sentence gets at the heart of my point. If you wanted me to come on board with your idea that builds on hyperloop, I wouldn't be "agreeing that that's a pretty cool idea and should be on your list." I'd be agreeing to actually build it somehow. So the standard for cofounding something is a million times higher than the standard for putting it into some list of ideas.