The value of ideas
coryl: Ideas matter, but not that much. We'd all rather have good ideas than bad ideas, which proves theres some value in the idea itself.But GREAT ideas usually come from some form of execution and iteration. Great ideas just don't come from sitting and brainstorming what to build your startup into. Using your comparison of Google's pagerank, PageRank wasn't drummed up and perfected as an idea before it was executed. Sergey and Larry probably had a concept (born from their research and creativity) and executed it. What evolved is what we now and call PageRank. So great ideas are really only recognized after the fact.