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Ideas are mostly worthless. It's the execution that is valuable. I mean I wouldn't share my idea with Rocket Internet, but you get my point.

smcl 12y ago
Context: Rocket Internet is the name of the German company operated by the Samwer brothers, who have a reputation of cloning silicon valley's latest and greatest ideas for the German\EU market. Not technically doing anything illegal but certainly not held in the highest regard.
- icefox 12y ago
  Why is it not held in high regard?
- getsat 12y ago
  They clone successfully executed ideas, not any old idea someone has.
  - billmalarky 12y ago
    However they also consider their strength to be execution not innovation. That doesn't rule out ideas that seem like "obvious wins" but have yet to be tested. Edit: Apparently in their mission statement they claim to only use proven ideas, but I still wouldn't do business with them regardless.
realusername 12y ago
Even in Rocket Internet, the value is mostly in the execution, they have the resources and the expertise to copy any kind of project and they can create a whole team from scratch really quickly. And they are not going to spend anything on an unproven idea, before being copied by Rocket Internet you have definitely more important things to worry about.
- mts_ 12y ago
  > they are not going to spend anything on an unproven idea Exactly! It's even in their mission statement: > Rocket identifies and builds proven Internet business models and transfers them to new, underserved or untapped markets where it seeks to scale them into market leading online companies.
thejosh 12y ago
Ideas are like assholes, everybody has one.
geebee 12y ago
I agree, though I've never really agreed with the concept that idea and execution are separate things. I see an "idea" for a software application they way I see an idea for a novel. The execution and idea are very closely intertwined. Even intertwined is probably the wrong word, because that conjures up an image of two different things that are too tangled up to separate. I'd go even farther. The idea becomes the idea through the execution. I suppose there is a sort of genesis of an idea, but even that probably already arrives with images of a UI and perhaps code in your head...

smcl 12y ago

Context: Rocket Internet is the name of the German company operated by the Samwer brothers, who have a reputation of cloning silicon valley's latest and greatest ideas for the German\EU market. Not technically doing anything illegal but certainly not held in the highest regard.

icefox 12y ago
Why is it not held in high regard?
getsat 12y ago
They clone successfully executed ideas, not any old idea someone has.
- billmalarky 12y ago
  However they also consider their strength to be execution not innovation. That doesn't rule out ideas that seem like "obvious wins" but have yet to be tested. Edit: Apparently in their mission statement they claim to only use proven ideas, but I still wouldn't do business with them regardless.

realusername 12y ago

Even in Rocket Internet, the value is mostly in the execution, they have the resources and the expertise to copy any kind of project and they can create a whole team from scratch really quickly. And they are not going to spend anything on an unproven idea, before being copied by Rocket Internet you have definitely more important things to worry about.

mts_ 12y ago
> they are not going to spend anything on an unproven idea Exactly! It's even in their mission statement: > Rocket identifies and builds proven Internet business models and transfers them to new, underserved or untapped markets where it seeks to scale them into market leading online companies.

thejosh 12y ago

Ideas are like assholes, everybody has one.

geebee 12y ago

I agree, though I've never really agreed with the concept that idea and execution are separate things. I see an "idea" for a software application they way I see an idea for a novel. The execution and idea are very closely intertwined. Even intertwined is probably the wrong word, because that conjures up an image of two different things that are too tangled up to separate. I'd go even farther. The idea becomes the idea through the execution. I suppose there is a sort of genesis of an idea, but even that probably already arrives with images of a UI and perhaps code in your head...