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"Build a tiny portion of the idea" Yes, this is the solution, the more you go with it the more you expand it. When it reach a certain level, it would be more interesting to VC and investors.
If no small portion of it is a good idea by itself, then I don't think it really is a good idea.
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If no small portion of it is a good idea by itself, then I don't think it really is a good idea.
Not a good idea, or not a feasible idea? I can think of dozens of good ideas that cannot be reduced to some kind of minimal, doable project.
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If no small portion of it is a good idea by itself, then I don't think it really is a good idea.
Not a good idea, or not a feasible idea? I can think of dozens of good ideas that cannot be reduced to some kind of minimal, doable project.
“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.”
I had an advisor tell me that I should always be keeping several "big" problems on the backburners at all times, so that whenever I find out about a new technique or technology, I will be able to immediately think of ways to apply the new tools to the big problems. He said it will fail 99 percent of the time, but on the 1 percent of the time that it does work, everything will somehow fit together and with any luck, you will have found a viable approach.
We stopped because it became obvious to us that a binder (yes this was before computers were in wide use) full of great ideas is worth exactly nothing.
So what do I do when I come up with a great idea? I forget it as quickly as possible so I can concentrate on executing what I'm doing now.
If you try honestly and still fail to kill it completely, whatever's left that you can't kill because it seems doable right now is one way to go.
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Not a good idea, or not a feasible idea? I can think of dozens of good ideas that cannot be reduced to some kind of minimal, doable project.
Well it all gets down to definitions and its more of a rule of thumb. However, I'm very suspicious of ideas that seem to be good only because the complexity gives them a certain gravitas. Its sort of a version or expansion (or misappropriation) of Gall's law: “A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex sy…
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Well it all gets down to definitions and its more of a rule of thumb. However, I'm very suspicious of ideas that seem to be good only because the complexity gives them a certain gravitas. Its sort of a version or expansion (or misappropriation) of Gall's law: “A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex sy…
Please list a dozen. I like the challenge of attempting to break problems down into small parts. THx.
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Please list a dozen. I like the challenge of attempting to break problems down into small parts. THx.
What less than a search engine can you build if you've got pagerank? in fact you can't even know if pagerank works unless you have a search engine.