[JoeAltmaier]

That is a succinct validation of that 'curse'. App store full of beautiful, worthless apps? Because nobody can tell which idea is a good one. Thus, marginal value of 'idea' is pretty near zero.

Go to any 'meetup', its almost all 'idea people' and no tech talent. That means, its very hard to find that talent.

It doesn't take a 'dream team', no, but it does take some team at all. To get that, you have to convince Engineers your idea is good. Almost as hard as convincing the money men.

So lets reword: its hard to get the money, and hard to recruit the talent. That leaves the ideas, which are a dime a dozen. Clear?

[forgetsusername]

>"Because nobody can tell which idea is a good one.

Maybe because none of them are?

Again, you're assuming that these are all "great ideas", that just can't be discovered. I'm claiming the opposite. Go grab an app at random. I'll bet you it's an attractive, functional app that's utterly pointless. Thousands of people have executed their terrible ideas.

>you have to convince Engineers your idea is good

Exactly. The idea is important. As is the execution.

>That leaves the ideas, which are a dime a dozen. Clear?

Ideas are a dime a dozen. So are technical people. Good ideas are not, just as good technical people are not.

If I were starting a business, I'd take a great idea and random technical people over great technical people and a completely random idea.