{"id":380752,"date":"2010-03-02T15:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T20:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37signals.com\/svn\/posts\/2188-theres-no-room-for-the-idea-guy"},"modified":"2010-03-02T15:09:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T20:09:00","slug":"theres-no-room-for-the-idea-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/380752","title":{"rendered":"There&#8217;s no room for The Idea Guy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Startups need people able and willing of doing the actual work. They need programmers, designers, and eventually folks to do marketing, support, and more. What they don&#8217;t need, though, is someone who&#8217;s just going to be The Idea Guy.<\/p>\n<p>You know the type. It&#8217;s the &#8220;this thing is going to be Facebook meets Flickr, but for dogs! If we can just get 1% of the online dog market, we&#8217;ll be rich!&#8221; spiel. All idea, usually no money, and hardly any functional skills that&#8217;ll help build or launch the damn thing.<\/p>\n<p>On the face and the facts of it, it&#8217;d be easy to turn down The Idea Guy. He wants you to work for very little or free in return for a smaller-than-his slice of the pie in the end. That end very rarely happens. But the energy and the big dreams can be dangerously alluring. I know, I fell for it more than once.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is that most everyone has plenty of ideas that could work out to be great businesses. The kicker is most often the right execution, that they&#8217;d be responsible for anyway, at the right time, which is almost impossible to predict. The value of The Perfect Idea is very small indeed.<\/p>\n<p>That doesn&#8217;t mean it&#8217;s useless to have big ideas and plenty of enthusiasm. If you&#8217;re that guy, you&#8217;ve got a great start. Now pick up a functional skill and help build it your damn self.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/37signals\/beMH?a=yAIqdyFGKzc:fY_x7WKs8xI:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/37signals\/beMH?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/37signals\/beMH?a=yAIqdyFGKzc:fY_x7WKs8xI:7Q72WNTAKBA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/37signals\/beMH?d=7Q72WNTAKBA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Startups need people able and willing of doing the actual work. They need programmers, designers, and eventually folks to do marketing, support, and more. What they don&#8217;t need, though, is someone who&#8217;s just going to be The Idea Guy. You know the type. It&#8217;s the &#8220;this thing is going to be Facebook meets Flickr, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}