Actually coming up with a highly profitable idea would be far too hard. Look at Facebook, the guy (allegedly) took someone elses idea then ran off with it.

But surely good new ideas occur randomly, and it's a numbers game. So instead of stealing lots of peoples ideas, why not randomly generate them until we come up with something good?

But then we're stuck with having to review them, which is again too hard work. Maybe we could outsource it in the guise of a Facebook game or something - and with a restrictive AUP we could own all the good ideas people submit royalty free.

... or we could go down the thievery path... after all, it's the shortest-route solution...

Maybe graph theory COULD help: Find a good way of modelling all the possible ways to get from Node A (Me) to Node B (Money), then do some kind of shortest path algorithm.

Interesting....