This is a nice piece overall but, having seen founders negotiate their splits countless times over nearly three decades, I would add that such negotiations tend to be more nuanced than equal splits in most cases. Idea people may not be able to proceed without solid technical people but what they do or don't have to give them for their services is always governed by supply and demand. An exceptional technical person w…
"someone whose skills can be supplied by a good number of people will likely get far less."
If your idea is so easy to implement that it can be done by any cheap programmer, it's probably going to be hard to defend yourself against competition. Ideas like that aren't worth very much, even if they are correct and very clever, because they're so easy to duplicate.