Co-Founders: Your Idea is Worthless. Show Your Chops

This article is too long for what it delivers. Most of it is a derivative of what all the talking heads say: "Ideas are meaningless. Execution is everything".<p>The value of this article can be boiled down to the following sentence. If you're not a technical co-founder be prepared to show off your sales and marketing chops before you start looking for one.

If Ideas are meaningless, then why the first question everyone asks "What is the idea you pursuing?"

Ideas are worthless. Great Ideas are worth their weight in gold.

I'm glad that everyone objecting that ideas are NOT worthless are so appreciative of irony.<p>There's a postscript to the article. "JT" actually found his technical co-founder. The lesson to take away from this is that if you want to find a technical co-founder, you have to sell yourself more than you have to sell your idea.

I don't think the question is about non-technical business people 'showing chops...'<p>This is about smart people - there are brilliant business people and there are brilliant hackers.<p>They don't need to worry about showing chops (whatever that means) - they'll worry about ideas and creating greatness one way or another.

I've come to hate the usage of the word "chops," outside of the music industry.