Comments on: Founder v. Founders

By: Aptera Faces More Than Leadership Troubles After Founders’ Official Exit

Aptera Faces More Than Leadership Troubles After Founders’ Official Exit — Thu, 04 Feb 2010 17:48:06 +0000

[...] investors want) to manage the business as it grows. And the individual or team that births an idea isn’t always the one that innovates and executes that concept. But as Tesla Motors has demonstrated, even conflict between a departing [...]

By: dikshantdave

dikshantdave — Thu, 16 Aug 2007 14:01:26 +0000

As rightly pointed out by Chris, the idea in Facebook is not earth shattering or totally unique. so what made facebook rise above the 100s of other similar ideas? Offcourse lots of things which follow after the idea, the execution, the vision, adaptability to changes, Luck (??), etc.
Single founders have been successful more often so cant blame Zuckerberg for what he has supposedly done.}

By: gvenkatesh

gvenkatesh — Mon, 13 Aug 2007 15:25:56 +0000

Only commenting on Q2. In my experience, an idea is never static, a successful one even less so. It evolves, morphs, gets superseded, rewritten, repackaged. Ideas manifest themselves in the functionality of the product/service and sometimes uniquely so, but are seldom the reason for its success. Innovation will help in that evolution to a successful product/service but the thing that guarantees the success is neither the idea nor the innovation on their own, but rather the vision that primarily drives the innovation of the idea to success. Personally, as a founder, I would much rather be known for having delivered a vision that was proved correct in the marketplace, and without stealing ideas/innovations from any one!}

By: ck01

ck01 — Wed, 18 Jul 2007 03:23:48 +0000

There’s nothing terribly unique about the idea itself since, if you want to split hairs, they probably lifted most of the concept from Friendster which would have been the biggest social networking site at that time. Facebook has been as successful as it has because of the two factors that every entrepreneur hopes will fall his way: timing and superior execution. And in the end, only execution is yours to control. When you read that whole “climbed into a bottle of Jack Daniels” comment, it’s not hard to see how these guys blew their window.}

By: freakystyley

freakystyley — Tue, 17 Jul 2007 15:04:59 +0000

I’d rather be known as an innovator. Anybody can come up with an idea, but an idea is worthless unless it’s acted upon and properly executed (innovation).

Sometimes the idea and the innovation can come from the same person. Other times, the idea people get drunk on their own big ideas and fail to execute.

Personally, I’ve been there before and certainly I don’t blame Zuckerberg one bit for seizing the opportunity to run with the idea and create something awesome.}