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Comment author: [deleted] 18 June 2015 01:53:12PM *  0 points [-]

Because ideas are cheap. There an abundance of ideas

But are you sure in this? I for example have zero even remotely actionable startup ideas right now. By actionable I mean something looking very simple on the outside, such as hipmunk or reddit, is also a huge amount of work. So all the ideas I would have already look complex on the outside, that is impossibly much work probably :) So what I would call actionable startup idea is something that does not look more complex than hipmunk.

Comment author: ChristianKl 18 June 2015 02:42:03PM 0 points [-]

If you look at Reddit, Reddit wasn't the first idea of the guys. The got to Y Combinator and Paul Graham basically said that their original idea was crap but that Paul Graham really liked the guys so they should still enter Y Combinator. Then the come up with Reddit.

The kind of people who have good startup ideas usually can come up with more than one idea.