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The Idea Maze is a Useless Idea - Commoncog

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Join 7,000+ sharp investors and operators like yourself, and we'll send you a collection of Commoncog's best articles right away: In 2022, I launched an experimental series of cases on the ‘Idea Maze’. The term ‘Idea Maze’ is a Silicon Valley (or tech industry)-ism ; it was originally coined by former Coinbase exec Balaji Srinivasan and then expanded on in a subsequent essay by venture capitalist Chris Dixon. The basic articulation from Balaji is as follows: Dixon then took this analogy and expanded on it: I thought that this might be a useful idea to examine. Everything sounded so … smart. Surely Dixon and Srinivasan know something about traversing the Idea Maze — after all, they have both started companies they sold; surely they rank highly on Commoncog’s hierarchy of practical evidence? The idea behind my case experiment was simple: what might we learn if we examined the concept of the Idea Maze through a sequence of real world cases? Earlier, I had run an experiment publishing case

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