These types of articles are are dangerous if they serve as collective ego strokes for somewhat talented developers. If you are one of those rare multi-talented first-class developer/designer/entrepreneurs, more power to you but implementation is both under-rated and over-rated. You will still accomplish an order of magnitude more by finding the right team.
Steve Jobs is not an implementer. Wozniak was one of the most brilliant. With the collective talent at Apple, surely they could stop "working for the man" and live their dreams.
Bad or slow implementation can kill the best of ideas but a great implementation of a mediocre product will go nowhere.
It's more about assessing your true strengths and weaknesses, finding a team where your talents are a good fit but get a stretched enough that you're always growing at a healthy pace.
If you feel under-rated maybe it's more about your communication than being under-appreciated as an implementer.
Steve Jobs is not an implementer. Wozniak was one of the most brilliant. With the collective talent at Apple, surely they could stop "working for the man" and live their dreams.
Bad or slow implementation can kill the best of ideas but a great implementation of a mediocre product will go nowhere.
It's more about assessing your true strengths and weaknesses, finding a team where your talents are a good fit but get a stretched enough that you're always growing at a healthy pace.
If you feel under-rated maybe it's more about your communication than being under-appreciated as an implementer.