http://www.adamduvander.com/simple/ideas-and-their-execution Adam DuVander’s thoughts on keeping things simple. Mon, 09 Jan 2012 07:03:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.adamduvander.com/simple/ideas-and-their-execution/comment-page-1#comment-2584 Resolve to Finish Your Awesome Side Project | Simplicity Rules Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:42:51 +0000 http://yamhill.adamduvander.com/news/ideas-and-their-execution#comment-2584 [...] don’t get finished and languish in a half-complete state. Or worse, they become trapped as unexecuted ideas. It’s nobody’s fault. Life takes over, priorities are forcibly skewed. Side projects, [...] [...] don’t get finished and languish in a half-complete state. Or worse, they become trapped as unexecuted ideas. It’s nobody’s fault. Life takes over, priorities are forcibly skewed. Side projects, [...]

]]> http://www.adamduvander.com/simple/ideas-and-their-execution/comment-page-1#comment-46 Simplicity Rules » My Big Changes at DuVinci Tue, 12 Aug 2008 07:24:58 +0000 http://yamhill.adamduvander.com/news/ideas-and-their-execution#comment-46 [...] I want to help others create on the Web. There are designers with great skills who want to learn to program. And there are bright business owners who can’t execute on their ideas. I believe anyone can learn to program. I’m looking forward to proving that. [...] [...] I want to help others create on the Web. There are designers with great skills who want to learn to program. And there are bright business owners who can’t execute on their ideas. I believe anyone can learn to program. I’m looking forward to proving that. [...]

]]> http://www.adamduvander.com/simple/ideas-and-their-execution/comment-page-1#comment-45 Simplicity Rules » Balancing the idea and execution Wed, 23 Jan 2008 19:24:18 +0000 http://yamhill.adamduvander.com/news/ideas-and-their-execution#comment-45 [...] A couple years ago I found a really cool formula for determining how much an idea is worth. It proposed that ideas were just a multiplier for execution, which is where the real money is. [...] [...] A couple years ago I found a really cool formula for determining how much an idea is worth. It proposed that ideas were just a multiplier for execution, which is where the real money is. [...]

]]> http://www.adamduvander.com/simple/ideas-and-their-execution/comment-page-1#comment-44 Simplicity Rules » Scaling an idea Fri, 17 Aug 2007 19:19:37 +0000 http://yamhill.adamduvander.com/news/ideas-and-their-execution#comment-44 [...] I also believe that ideas alone aren’t worth much. Execution matters. [...] [...] I also believe that ideas alone aren’t worth much. Execution matters. [...]

]]> http://www.adamduvander.com/simple/ideas-and-their-execution/comment-page-1#comment-43 Simplicity Rules » Blog Archive » Take your ideas public Sat, 26 Aug 2006 02:55:18 +0000 http://yamhill.adamduvander.com/news/ideas-and-their-execution#comment-43 [...] Cambrian House values ideas at five to ten percent of the whole project. That might be high, but I like seeing it in terms of a percentage instead of the idea multiplier. [...] [...] Cambrian House values ideas at five to ten percent of the whole project. That might be high, but I like seeing it in terms of a percentage instead of the idea multiplier. [...]

]]> http://www.adamduvander.com/simple/ideas-and-their-execution/comment-page-1#comment-42 Simplicity Rules » Blog Archive » Three reasons simplicity works for me Mon, 10 Jul 2006 17:59:13 +0000 http://yamhill.adamduvander.com/news/ideas-and-their-execution#comment-42 [...] I can get from idea to execution quickly. [...] [...] I can get from idea to execution quickly. [...]

]]> http://www.adamduvander.com/simple/ideas-and-their-execution/comment-page-1#comment-41 Simplicity Rules » Blog Archive » No one funds ideas Tue, 25 Apr 2006 23:16:46 +0000 http://yamhill.adamduvander.com/news/ideas-and-their-execution#comment-41 [...] It’s a recurring theme in Simplicity Rules, as well as elsewhere, that ideas are worthless. Thomas Warfield, a successful shareware programmer, writes about the “pitches” he receives: Every few weeks or so, I get an email from somebody with a “Big Idea”. [...] [...] It’s a recurring theme in Simplicity Rules, as well as elsewhere, that ideas are worthless. Thomas Warfield, a successful shareware programmer, writes about the “pitches” he receives: Every few weeks or so, I get an email from somebody with a “Big Idea”. [...]

]]> http://www.adamduvander.com/simple/ideas-and-their-execution/comment-page-1#comment-40 Simplicity Rules » Blog Archive » Releasing early versus releasing ready Fri, 24 Mar 2006 01:50:22 +0000 http://yamhill.adamduvander.com/news/ideas-and-their-execution#comment-40 [...] Well, we all have these things. It may be an idea for a whole product or a feature. Ideas are just about worthless. Sometimes I’ve tried to wait for a project to be perfect. When I realized I was going down that road with onBLOCK, that’s when I knew it was time to release. [...] [...] Well, we all have these things. It may be an idea for a whole product or a feature. Ideas are just about worthless. Sometimes I’ve tried to wait for a project to be perfect. When I realized I was going down that road with onBLOCK, that’s when I knew it was time to release. [...]

]]> http://www.adamduvander.com/simple/ideas-and-their-execution/comment-page-1#comment-39 Richard Lynch Thu, 20 Oct 2005 17:32:00 +0000 http://yamhill.adamduvander.com/news/ideas-and-their-execution#comment-39 You can make it even more apparent, as I do, by never letting those domains expire, keeping them around as cobwebs, promising yourself that "some day" you'll get around to working on them again. :-) You can make it even more apparent, as I do, by never letting those domains expire, keeping them around as cobwebs, promising yourself that “some day” you’ll get around to working on them again.
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