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by waveman2 5001 days ago
While it's true that really really good ideas are not free, you seem to be understating the importance of execution.

There is a huge difference between "Let's start an online bookshop", which was an idea many people had, and Amazon.com.

Or between "let's use links like academic citations as a measure of quality of web pages" and google.com.