doug_m

Because valuing an idea as "good" or "bad" is difficult and largely subjective?

His point maybe would've been clearer if he'd said something like "Coming up with workable/interesting/possible ideas is easy."

A friend of mine couldn't sell to a great offer a few years ago because it was blocked by the VC and the company died a slow death.

I guess anything in life is a gamble and this is no different.

right but intelligent design is not just a misguided view, if its allowed to propagate its going to hold back scientific progress for ours and future generations so it deserves to follow educatated/intelligent guys like this around with them.

just incredible design and interface - many congrats. Mind sharing details about what you used?

I know what you mean but despite the high potential return on the investment his articles gave him he still didn't throw money at it to try and make it happen quickly.

i.e. the quote suggests rather than $50,000 is all you need to start something like Fog Creek the lesson might be even starting from his position which was likely to be more privaledged than yours or mine he still kept costs as low as he could until he turned a profit.

Its a cool enough idea but what's even more interesting is the extent that 2 behemoths of programming blogs being behind something like this will help it be a success.