What's interesting is, I see a lot of people saying, "I don't have a very good idea." For the record, my first swing was an awful idea -- social networking mum

What's interesting is, I see a lot of people saying, "I don't have a very good idea." For the record, my first swing was an awful idea -- social networking mumbo-jumbo. Half-baked, totally impossible to monetize. Four of us worked on it for about four months before the whole thing melted down and everyone but me (including my wife!) quit one at a time. When I finally gave up and let it die, I became deeply depressed. I didn't even want to get out of bed. I felt like a total failure. But the truth was, we discovered a bunch of really important things during the total-failure startup. Those things stewed in my mind, and when the opportunity showed itself, I tried again. Now all those important things that I learned are contributing to my new company. So, "I have a bad idea" is not much of an excuse. Take your free time and start working on it. Put up a reality distortion field and make yourself believe in it. Failing is also progress.