Such contradictions, Wood says, help explain our perpetual grapple with the Founders' ideas, "our despairing effort to make them one with us, to close that terrifying gap that always seems to exist between them and us".
"The big question of our time is not 'can it be built?' but 'should it be built?'," he writes.Staying lean certainly helps to refine founders' ideas, but to industrialise the rapid creation of companies they need something else: accelerators.
"Of course we have the network for a great financing round for startups," Schaefer tells me, "but every founder, idea or deal will be treated differently.
Advocates of information transparency point out that even if WikiLeaks founders, the idea it represents -- a transnational mechanism to disseminate information beyond the reach of any government, corporation or organization -- will live on.
"I believe we can keep the promise of our founders, the idea that if you're willing to work hard... you can make it here in America".
The founder thought of the idea while attempting to treat his own vision disorder.
I'm all for reducing stress but found Twitter co-founder Evan Williams' idea of "The Daily Message" rather twee.
"She just is sincere," says Colleen Parro, the Republican National Coalition for Life co-founder, whose idea it was to make Palin this year's guest of honor.
"What I suspect we are seeing is that the current management brought in to develop the Nook has been distracted from the stores," said Mike Shatzkin, the founder of Idea Logical, a media consulting firm.
For Thursday, 50 founders submitted ideas and 20 were given the chance to pitch for 90 seconds each.
