Exactly why I wrote http://blog.fairsoftware.net/2009/03/11/the-great-startup-idea-that-i-cant-reveal-yet/ http://blog.fairsoftware.net/2009/03/11/the-great-sta

Exactly why I wrote http://blog.fairsoftware.net/2009/03/11/the-great-startup-idea-that-i-cant-reveal-yet/ http://blog.fairsoftware.net/2009/03/11/the-great-startup-id... I still think ideas are very important. A previous poster lists Google as an example of the fact that being first doesn't matter, execution does. Google was first and foremost a new idea (pagerank). And they also executed. And then they got lucky (adwords). But without the idea, they would not have beaten the #1 search engine of the times.