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Seems like an over-simplification to me. An idea without execution is worthless. But execution without an idea is pretty worthless too.

Even if I mastered execution, I couldn't sell a product that costs you $100 and punched you in the face every time you used it, because it's a shitty idea.

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Of course you could. The target market would be masochists and they spend money on those kind of products/services already.

boxing trainer, boom.

I tried to come up with one myself (shitty idea) and thought I had one with "beer that tastes like urine", but then I realized that such a product could conceivably find a market with alcoholics trying to condition themselves against drinking.

So yes, even Miller and Coors still have a market (sorry, home-brewer joke).

"I tried to think of a shitty idea with no potential market, and came up with 'beer that tastes like urine.' Then I realized Miller and Coors beat me to it."

(trying to show the importance of the execution of an idea)

Okay, how about clothing that melts away when it gets wet? Got anything there?

Sounds like something you would go to your local "sensual items" shop for, and given Rule 34, it likely already exists. Certainly some candied versions do.

If it's a lot cheaper than regular clothes, make it fashionable/slutty and call it disposable club-wear.

This reminds me of this post from Derek Sivers: http://sivers.org/multiply

Only if master executors were dumbos. As someone pointed out above, good executors fix mediocre ideas.

Agree. Different ideas have different execution and value potential: for example an idea to dig a cubic foot hole in the ground in the middle of nowhere has a different potential than an idea about how to solve the financial crisis.

Gifts for people you don't like?

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