[ryguytilidie]

Does anyone else hate the term "idea people". To me that implies someone thinks that having an idea and no skill to execute is a legitimate profession where people should make money. I might be overreacting, but it feels like people see the VC cash flowing, have no discernible skills and think they deserve a payoff for a mediocre idea.

[natrius]

I consider it a pejorative.

[its_so_on]

The term "idea man" is a pejorative, and as someone who appreciates what Google became from being a handful of servers running a novel set of algorithms as described here:

http://infolab.stanford.edu/~backrub/google.html (the original paper was actually longer)

I appreciate idea men in a way no one who uses the term "idea man" does or can.