Paul Graham was right. It sure looks like ideas are worthless.

http://my-million-dollar-ideas.blogspot.com/

by falsestprophet • 19 years ago

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my-million-dollar-ideas.blogspot.com

create_account• 19 years ago

The next guy who upvotes anything starting with "Paul Graham was right" is going to get his legs broken.

Ok, not really (just saw the Sopranos on dvd last night), but let's not turn this into a dumb fan boy site.

There are tons of those already.

juwo11• 19 years ago

I disagree with Paul Graham - but no one commented on these arguments(http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=19535)

http://juwo-works.blogspot.com/2007/05/ideas-are-worthless-wrong-ideas-can.html

jkush4• 19 years ago

That's because you're playing with semantics. Ideas are worthless because an idea can't solve a problem. It's the implementation of an idea that solves the problem.

akkartik4• 19 years ago

Here is a simple way to provide evidence of the hypothesis that ideas have value: make money off them without performing execution. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arbitrage

ralph• 19 years ago

Don't waste your time clicking on the link.

byrneseyeview• 19 years ago

Well, bad ideas are worthless.

Paul Graham was right. It sure looks like ideas are worthless.

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