How to Kill a Great Idea

I remember fondly an article that made it to the front page, once, that said you specifically shouldn't tell people about your ideas. It purported that, chemically, the pleasure of explaining your great idea to someone is similar to the pleasure of actually accomplishing it. So, it claimed that for every person you tell about your idea, you're less likely to actually do it, since you have already enjoyed the pleasure of telling someone about it. Just thought it was an interesting note that flies in the face of the first point made by the blogger, via Seth Godin. No idea if it's true.

Another way to kill a great idea is to fail to implement it.

This post brought to mind an old ze frank video: http://www.zefrank.com/theshow/archives/2006/07/071106.html

Huh. I thought this was actually going to be an article on how to stop your mind from obsessing over "great ideas", or tell when a "great idea" is bogus. I was disappointed to find it was just more cheerleading.

A lot of ideas people have are like wishbones - http://www.nilkanth.com/2009/07/09/selling-fake-wishbones/

why people let their ideas to go waste? why don't they think that their ideas may lead to good startups?

excellent post about Ideas for Startups http://www.paulgraham.com/ideas.html