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At the risk of sounding negative, I thought the majority of these ideas were absolutely awful. Even if one of these did inspire someone to put the work in, I do

At the risk of sounding negative, I thought the majority of these ideas were absolutely awful. Even if one of these did inspire someone to put the work in, I doubt it would get them very far.

impostervt 13y ago
You get what you pay for.
- vladmk 13y ago
  Precisely, way to complain about free stuff geez, so you want me to execute them, pivot and mail the money? :-)
  - russell 13y ago
    Sounds like a great business to me, better than I've managed to do by myself. Sign me up.
    - vladmk 13y ago
      I think that one will go bankrupt and we'll have to pivot.
pitchups 13y ago
Remember though, that the best ideas initially sound like really bad ideas, as explained by PG in his essay (based on pretty good empirical evidence from funding hundreds of them ): http://paulgraham.com/swan.html http://paulgraham.com/swan.html So there could well be a few outliers in there. Of course, that is a necessary, not a sufficient condition, i.e, not all bad ideas are going to be successful - but the most successful ones sound like really bad ideas to begin with.