Thus says entrepreneur and venture capitalist Guy Kawasaki.  As someone who has not only been there, done that, bought the T-shirt, Kawasaki also hears his share of pitches from would-be venture-back entrepreneurs.  He has grown very weary of not only “Really Bad PowerPoint,” but what he regards as a delusion of almost all startups that the value is in their idea.

The old argument goes that if you have great people they will come up with great ideas. My perspective is different: If you have a great idea, then you can find great people to implement it.

Why am I posting this here on Our ISA?

I know that more than a few leaders are uncomfortable with discussing many of these topics in such a naked, vulnerable forum.  And I get it.  However, I think it’s important to consider a couple of things.  First of all, it’s doubtful we’re going to unearth any ideas here that have not been contemplated or even attempted before.  Indeed, its greatest value is probably found in identifying old ideas and strategies that have worked other contexts.  Second, a great idea with bad implementation is like a pretty book cover with no pages.  It looks nice on the shelf and  ”coulda, shoulda, woulda been” great.  A bad idea with great implementation is like Microsoft Windows (there were much better operating systems in the early days that simply weren’t implemented as well).

So let’s generate ideas and use Our ISA as a tool to communicate them and get some great people to implement them.

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