Wait, is this why we can never seem to get past 3% GDP growth?
B/c a huge percentage of our smartest people are utilizing their smarts to figure out how to coast as lazily through life as they can while optimizing their "observed personality"?
This explains a lot. But, it is not something I haven't suspected.
What would it take to change this? To allow productivity, growth, and proper compensation?
It is not just software engineering where this is a very common scenario, btw.
You may not recognize it, but this is a statistical distribution argument. :) It is assuming that there is a steep gradient between Google and "outside-of-google".
It is hard to prove that this is true regardless of the intentions of the statement or what was left unsaid.
The title of the article is: Free STARTUP (Business) Ideas. NOT: Free Product Ideas.
This concept still doesn't seem to phase people. You don't need novel ideas to start a business. That's why I am trying to make it clear that it is incorrect to conflate a startup (business) with some sort of invention (like the car or lightbulb). The two are non-equivalent. Although, one can lead to the other.
This reduction of business to: idea + execution is not doing anyone any good.
>seeing if you have a market, working hard, making smart decisions) are collectively what people call execution
This thinking can also be misleading as business ideas can actually be a sub-component of smart decisions.
>ideas are easy and execution is hard
This is also an over-simplification that will do no one any good. And it seems to be pervasive throughout the 'startup community'. Google started on a research paper. Research papers are NOT easy. So, no, ideas are not always easy.
Of course, you might argue that the research paper was part of the 'execution' in which case you would be arguing my previous point: innovation is what has the idea + execution phase. The end result of innovation is usually an invention (whether it be fractional reserve banking or microprocessors).
The research paper was not a business and not part of a business. The invention was eventually used to power a business. The same with the invention of the lightbulb.
Anyways, I just wish people would stop oversimplifying things. It really does no good.
I find lists like this to be rather naive. A lot of people think that businesses are all about: good idea + great execution. Wrong! A business is about: making money. Plain and simple. You don't need a fancy idea and the latest execution 'methods' (e.g. agile, lean, etc.) to make money.
You need a market, hard work, smart decisions, and a bit of luck. There is way too much conversation conflating the concepts of innovation and business. I would say that in the case of innovation it IS about: good(novel) idea + great execution.
I imagine many startups feel that they MUST innovate to be a 'worthy' company. But, you really don't. To be a company you just have to make money. You do whatever is necessary to do just that. Nokia sold rubber tires FFS [0]
B/c that would be 100% in favor of the sole focus of the country really needing to be a restoration of the middle class.