Entrepreneurs Aren't Idea People

“Entrepreneurship: Don’t Drink the Kool-Aid”:http://www.businesspundit.com/archives/002240.html. (“via”:http://photomatt.net/2005/09/09/entrepreneurs/) Great quote:

I bring these up to highlight a key point – you don’t get investment for just an idea. It’s extremely rare. If you want to be an entrepreneur, stop believing that ideas matter. That isn’t what entrepreneurship is about. Entrepreneurs aren’t idea people, everybody and their brother has ideas. Entrepreneurs are people that exploit ideas by matching them to market needs, executing them despite scarce resources and designing a business model that makes the idea profitable.