That’s right.
I said it.
Your idea is not worth anything.
Before you try to tell me that I need to sign an NDA because you’re worried I am going to “steal” your idea. I would like to share 3 bits of reality that is my reality.
- I do not have an army of programmers at my disposal 24-hours a day that have the ability to replicate my understanding of your drunken slurring rendition of a Guy Kawasaki 10-page investor deck that you “aren’t even going to need because your idea is that great!”
- Your NDA is not air-tight. Neither is mine. Neither are any of them.
- Execution creates value. Not diagramming out your idea in the air like your Tom Cruise in Minority Report.
Ok, maybe if you’re Tom Cruise, but then I’d like to https://www.cialispascherfr24.com/cialis-generique-tadalafil-comprimes/ see you jumping on some sofas as well.
Prototype is the new powerpoint deck.
Most technologies are available for cheap and/or free. If you can not navigate your way to a prototype, I write down in the moleskine in my mind:
“Execution?”.
You know what I don’t write down?
“WOW, this guy is sitting on a 1 BILLION dollar idea, if only he had 500 dollars to build a prototype, THEN, by George, the world would see!”.
Are you kidding me?
- You have an idea on how to sell popsicles with custom graphics? show me a prototype.
- You think you’re going to be the next instagram? show me a prototype.
- Oh really? it’s a mashup of some complex data that your patent-pending algorithm slices and dices through some wizardry? You guessed it. Show me a prototype.
Ideas are good. Ideas are very seldom bad. Ok, some ideas are just wrong. But generally, ideas exist on a spectrum, but no where on that spectrum is “worth” calculated.
Worth = value created.
Value creation is a function of execution.
Therefore, through transitive property, Worth is function of execution.
Here, let me draw you a diagram.
Straight from the project manager’s guidebook.
Global Citizen. Out.
