Why the next big idea you have is CRAP!

Ideas are like the SIM Card without a Mobile Phone! would work only if you put it in!

All across the Startup landscape and more or less across everywhere you hear people talk about how a small idea changed the complete game, how an innovative strategy got the ball rolling for the company! To me, it all sounds a heck load of BS*! and let me tell you why?

Ideas won't matter unless acted upon!

A good idea is as good or bad as a bad idea, even the greatest thinkers and philosophers did not become great just by thinking, just think about it, the person whose whole life revolved around thinking did not become great just by thinking!

Thoughts, Feedback, and Action!

Your thoughts and actions need to move in tandem to achieve a meaningful result, sometimes unthoughtful actions do lead to huge gains, let's just call it Luck! but that's just gonna happen once or maybe a couple of more times, but not every time, the best phrase that I can quote here is the old cliche "The harder I work the Luckier I get"

But none the less, an action without thought and a thought without action is a sure shot recipe for failure, that's for sure,

The Non-Disclosure BS* for Entrepreneurs!

A Lot of people, especially the ones making a living around patents and trademarks, the lawyer kinds would talk about the importance of the idea and how to protect it, a lot of my friends trying to venture out into the startup ring talk very discreetly about their IDEA! and all the secrecy around it, Well! people, let me break it to you, RELAX! it won't matter if someone is trying to steal your BIG IDEA! because it's never the idea that would determine the success of your startup, it almost always the execution- that's the key, the facebook before it existed had a bunch of other websites doing the same thing, executing the same idea, there were companies like TaxiMagic before Uber doing the same thing, but only Facebook went viral, only Uber prevailed, WHY???

Amongst most of the technical and strategic reasons behind their phenomenal success, almost all of them is based on the People behind it, Mark Zuckerberg behind FB, Travis behind Uber that drove their companies meteoric rise.

In 2006 while I was still pursuing my engineering, and had just read about Amazon, and thought to myself, man this idea is not implemented here in India yet and if done properly can be huge! So I grab on to every piece of literature I can get over my 40 Kbps dial-up Tata Indicom modem on Internet Explorer for two consecutive weekends, watching Shawshank Redemption during the buffering of web pages, well that idea remained an idea and it was the Bansal duo who ultimately launched Flipkart. So the point I am trying to make is that a good idea sucks till it is practically proven.

Idea Vs. Action

A thought-provoking idea in action is like the bottle of champagne ready to pop out with all the jazz, bubbly froth and mesmerizing taste! the integral element here is action. Executing the good strategic plan can lead to faster results, but the execution is the Game, knowing a subject or having deep incite on a topic is a big plus, but putting it in practice makes all the difference in the world, for example, we all know exercise, yoga, and meditation will help you calm your mind and lead to a healthier lives, well how many of us actually practice?

So, what's my answer to the debate of what is important Idea or Action? Well, lets just say read this article's headline again!