This is a very interesting read, It reminds of places where they put the notion that a guy that draws pictures aka designer types are the real force behind modern software versus the software designer who figures out how to make things possible. I liken this to some interesting projects shared out by designers on Dribble. Where some other mentally challenged designer asked how does that sharing work from the iphone to the ipad. Its brilliant? I love the design. In my mind, I knew full well it could not be done in the current versions of iOS. I counter with this analogy. If a designer draws a time machine, makes it look really nice with a Louis Vuitton pattern and color scheme and a radically flat pastel colours from the my little pony palette (MLPP) and someone one else writes thats amazing, how does it work? Can I go back a year or three weeks?. The point being its a great IDEA and PICTURE but it CANT BE DONE. Its all about the execution. ENTIRELY (tm) about the execution. Ideas are truly a dime a dozen!!!. Can you make it work? If so Ill hire you :-D Let’s take the Social Network scenario as a counterexample. Zuckerberg flat out stole the concept for Facebook from the Winklevosses, then built a separate company without them. Do the Winklevosses deserve $65 million for their idea of connecting Harvard students online? No. Could they have built Facebook into even a shadow of what it is today? Not a chance. Their code monkey turned out to have the guts and skills to actually build the damn thing, correctly. No one sympathizes with the Winklevii, who earned an outsized settlement on the back of someone else’s hard work and risk-taking. If the Snapchat founders had done to Brown what Zuckerberg did to the Winklevosses, I would similarly argue that Brown deserves nothing. Only his work justifies any kind of compensation. Ideas are worthless without action. They’re so worthless that Seth Godin gladly put up 999 of them on his website to prove the point. “Ideas are a dime a dozen. The money is in the execution,” says the accompanying post. Griping about stolen ideas will yield you no sympathy from this writer. Business isn’t a race to think. It’s a race to build products and acquire customers. If you can’t do that, get a good lawyer.
Posted on: Sat, 16 Nov 2013 23:00:12 +0000
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