This has been VERY helpful! Thank you all!
Sounds like the first thing I need to do is separate what it is from
the secret sauce that makes it work.
OK, here it is
How many devices are on the typical home network right now? I'm not
talking about laptops, desktops and tablets (though these are
I’m working on a little script in PHP to do a recursive hash on some web
directories I want to monitor. Then I thought, since I still feel a little
uncomfortable on OS X, maybe it would be useful here to watch things change and
try learn how things work. I open up terminal and to my delight
Ditto to all of Tom’s points. I’d like to add that patents are bonuses but not
mandatory. It’s just one form of “barrier to entry” against your competitors.
You have to consider the fact that it will take about five years to get a
patent approved and that’s if it gets approved. Considering
The Forbes billionaires list offers some food for thought. Zuckerberg is #16 on
the list, with an idea developed in 2006. Michael Dell is further down, with
his 1984 idea. Gates remains at the top, with his vintage-1979 idea.
Looking at those ideas, it's pretty clear they were a dime a dozen
Steve - One more very important thing when validating your idea, make sure you
are solving a painful problem and not just creating a solution that you think
may be helpful. This is perhaps the most fundamentally important step: to
create a compelling value proposition. Then and only then do
