Comments on: An Idea Is All You Need http://blog.shantanugoel.com/2008/04/12/an-idea-is-all-you-need-2.html Stop searching for a witty tagline and read the posts, moron ;) Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:39:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Shantanu Goel http://blog.shantanugoel.com/2008/04/12/an-idea-is-all-you-need-2.html#comment-146 Shantanu Goel Wed, 30 Apr 2008 10:15:51 +0000 http://blog.shantanugoel.com/2008/04/12/an-idea-is-all-you-need-2.html#comment-146 Pooja: You hit the nail on the head about relationship between courage about implementing ideas and Indians. Pooja: You hit the nail on the head about relationship between courage about implementing ideas and Indians.

]]> By: Pooja Gupta http://blog.shantanugoel.com/2008/04/12/an-idea-is-all-you-need-2.html#comment-145 Pooja Gupta Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:29:50 +0000 http://blog.shantanugoel.com/2008/04/12/an-idea-is-all-you-need-2.html#comment-145 I guess with big shots like google, perfection is acheived both in terms of the wonderful idea as well as its excellent execution with no compromises..! Indian brains too give great ideas, most of the times the courage to implement the same is missing! I guess with big shots like google, perfection is acheived both in terms of the wonderful idea as well as its excellent execution with no compromises..!

Indian brains too give great ideas, most of the times the courage to implement the same is missing!

]]> By: Shantanu Goel http://blog.shantanugoel.com/2008/04/12/an-idea-is-all-you-need-2.html#comment-142 Shantanu Goel Sat, 26 Apr 2008 08:57:14 +0000 http://blog.shantanugoel.com/2008/04/12/an-idea-is-all-you-need-2.html#comment-142 Jinal, Pooja: I agree with what you said about execution being very important but I still disagree that an Idea is just 20%. lets take Google's example only. What you call execution, I call it an Idea. It was google's unique idea of finding out which pages matter the most for particular terms, and later on they also had so many other ideas to augment the "normal search". The execution part was how also very important, but I would say they wouldn't have anything to execute in the first place without the idea. And if they hadn't thought of smthing new, and carried on with the existing thought process behind search, they would have never become successful as they are now, even if they executed it to perfection. Jinal, Pooja: I agree with what you said about execution being very important but I still disagree that an Idea is just 20%.
lets take Google’s example only. What you call execution, I call it an Idea. It was google’s unique idea of finding out which pages matter the most for particular terms, and later on they also had so many other ideas to augment the “normal search”. The execution part was how also very important, but I would say they wouldn’t have anything to execute in the first place without the idea.
And if they hadn’t thought of smthing new, and carried on with the existing thought process behind search, they would have never become successful as they are now, even if they executed it to perfection.

]]> By: Pooja Gupta http://blog.shantanugoel.com/2008/04/12/an-idea-is-all-you-need-2.html#comment-139 Pooja Gupta Thu, 24 Apr 2008 16:24:15 +0000 http://blog.shantanugoel.com/2008/04/12/an-idea-is-all-you-need-2.html#comment-139 Well knitted post again Shantz!! Agreed 60%..We Indians need to think more..But like Jinah said, execution is equally important.. Indians many times lack the much needed discipline needed in both thoughts and action to succesfully complete the project! Well knitted post again Shantz!!

Agreed 60%..We Indians need to think more..But like Jinah said, execution is equally important..

Indians many times lack the much needed discipline needed in both thoughts and action to succesfully complete the project!

]]> By: Jinal Shah http://blog.shantanugoel.com/2008/04/12/an-idea-is-all-you-need-2.html#comment-137 Jinal Shah Thu, 24 Apr 2008 04:36:12 +0000 http://blog.shantanugoel.com/2008/04/12/an-idea-is-all-you-need-2.html#comment-137 Shantanu, Very interesting post. However, I beg to differ. I think 'creators' (read: software engineers, designers, product designers, coders) place too much emphasis on the 'idea.' I believe an idea is only 20% of the work - teh real challenge and reward is in how you execute the idea. A very literal example is, the idea of internet search. Other search engines have been around longer than google. When google came into picture, the idea of search wasn't revolutionary, it is how they executed the idea. After a while and after seeing as many young businesses start and fail as I have, the novelty of the idea really wears off. Shantanu, Very interesting post. However, I beg to differ. I think ‘creators’ (read: software engineers, designers, product designers, coders) place too much emphasis on the ‘idea.’ I believe an idea is only 20% of the work - teh real challenge and reward is in how you execute the idea. A very literal example is, the idea of internet search. Other search engines have been around longer than google. When google came into picture, the idea of search wasn’t revolutionary, it is how they executed the idea.
After a while and after seeing as many young businesses start and fail as I have, the novelty of the idea really wears off.

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