Divya Narendra (bottom), who came up with the idea, got less than 1/1000 what Mark Zuckerberg -- who executed on the idea -- received. Goes to show that ideas are worthless.
No, ideas aren't worthless, they're just worthless without execution.
I've got tons of ability to execute, and so do most of the people on this website, but what most of us lack are ideas to act on.
These ideas aren't specific to web-app concepts, either. They could be marketing ideas, or ideas for new datatype implementations, or the next trendy datastore.
I think this is something that a lot of hackers miss. You might be the smartest coder on the planet, but if you don't have something to code, then you're Stradivarius sitting in a box on a shelf.
Ability to execute is something that almost everybody who has ever seriously uttered the phrase "idea guy" lacks.
Since the ConnectU case was settled out of court, isn't it incorrect to state this as a fact? No court ever ruled on this, unless I am missing something.
