I don't think anyone is going to give me $100 million and I am even less sure I even would want it if it was on offer. I live a very nice life doing mostly what I want because I don't have to answer to anyone other than me. I am pretty sceptical that taking outside investors is desirable.

Ok, so you are limiting what you feel are great ideas by your personal desires. But that does not make the ideas per-se worse or better.

Yes. This is my list of what I feel are the most important factors for any idea I am evaluating. I think the list does have inherent value for others (especially as a starting point), but it's real value is as a catalyst for people to develop their own list.

Having said this I do expect that a good list should share many points with my list. The major difference I think for many is likely to be over the importance or not of an idea being able to be bootstrapped. For many people this is not important, but for me it is very important.

> The major difference I think for many is likely to be over the importance or not of an idea being able to be bootstrapped. For many people this is not important, but for me it is very important.

I think you should add that caveat to your blog post! It makes all the difference and it makes me see your list in a much more favorable way.

I just added this to the essay as this is a good point.