{"id":502,"date":"2010-10-07T21:46:09","date_gmt":"2010-10-08T04:46:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/wests\/rick\/?p=502"},"modified":"2010-10-07T21:48:21","modified_gmt":"2010-10-08T04:48:21","slug":"all-really-good-ideas-end-up-being-collaborative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/2010\/10\/07\/all-really-good-ideas-end-up-being-collaborative\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;all really good ideas end up being collaborative&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love this quote from Paul Saffo, Silicon Valley forecaster (what does THAT mean, BTW? How do I get that job?). Here&#8217;s the full quote, <a title=\"Saffo quote\" href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/39486750\/ns\/business-us_business\/\" target=\"_blank\">in reference to Facebook&#8217;s creation<\/a> and whether we can really call any technology ideas original or plagiarized because these ideas are nearly always developed in collaboration with others. I would argue the same is true outside of the technological realm as well:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>&#8220;Being first is heavily overrated in the technology space because all really good ideas end up being collaborative,&#8221; says Saffo, of the San Francisco analysis firm Discern. &#8220;Ideas are cheap. It&#8217;s the execution that matters. And if you look at where Facebook is now compared to where it started, it&#8217;s a very difficult comparison. &#8230; I wouldn&#8217;t give a whole lot of credence to people who are showing up and claiming credit.&#8221;<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love this quote from Paul Saffo, Silicon Valley forecaster (what does THAT mean, BTW? How do I get that job?). Here&#8217;s the full quote, in reference to Facebook&#8217;s creation and whether we can really call any technology ideas original or plagiarized because these ideas are nearly always developed in collaboration with others. I would [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[35],"class_list":{"0":"post-502","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized","7":"tag-cois","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":504,"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions\/504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.byuipt.net\/rickwest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}