Minor point: "open source" is not open source because you have the source. It's open source because it's licensed that way. Adding a public domain or cc-0 license to the page would achieve the same effect.
I Open-Sourced All My Business Ideas
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Re: I Open-Sourced All My Business Ideas
#72I don't mean to troll, but having ideas is nothing. Of course projects start with ideas but if the creator of the idea didn't pursue given concept - neither should you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csyL9EC0S0c&feature=youtu.be...
Re: I Open-Sourced All My Business Ideas
#73> COLIVING - Like WeWork but for living. Already implemented at http://www.buildcampus.com/ > STOP SLACKERS - Logs all employees use, anonymously. Found http://www.rescuetime.com which does this awesomely Already implemented at https://wakatime.com/
Looks like Campus Co-Living no longer exists.
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#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
Derek! Nice to have found you here! Keep writing that stuff, you're great and I'm a big fan of yours. Also, a note: EVEN IF someone steal your idea and becomes rich with it, it doesn't necessarily mean that you would have been able to. An example I come out with is Orkut vs Facebook. Orkut didn't go anywhere, Facebook did very well. If Mark Z stole the idea (don't know if he did) or not, would not have changed Orkut'…
To me, a more compelling question is if Orkut would have succeeded if Facebook had never been invented?
I guess all those Social networking websites(MySpace,Orkut etc) can be involved here.If these sort of questions pique your interest.I'd suggest you take a look a the Chinese market. It can be treated as a parallel universe where apps/companies develop under different restrictions which brings about a unique ecosystem for the user. This is an interesting example [1].
Re: I Open-Sourced All My Business Ideas
#75I feel like no-one has managed to build a small-business CRM (like his Shoebox CRM) effectively yet. I run a one-person business and I'm still using a colour-coded Excel sheet to try and figure out when I should bug sales prospects.
> I'm still using a colour-coded Excel sheet to try and figure out when I should bug sales prospects
What are the problems with doing that?
Re: I Open-Sourced All My Business Ideas
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
Derek! Nice to have found you here! Keep writing that stuff, you're great and I'm a big fan of yours. Also, a note: EVEN IF someone steal your idea and becomes rich with it, it doesn't necessarily mean that you would have been able to. An example I come out with is Orkut vs Facebook. Orkut didn't go anywhere, Facebook did very well. If Mark Z stole the idea (don't know if he did) or not, would not have changed Orkut'…
To me, a more compelling question is if Orkut would have succeeded if Facebook had never been invented?
To me, the more compelling question is: why was Orkut so much better?
And the answer is: no news feed.
Re: I Open-Sourced All My Business Ideas
#77Love it. Two years ago I did this, and wrote a little something about it when I started: "Why my code and ideas are public" https://sivers.org/ws I blogged about it to call attention to it for one main reason: I wanted to see if anyone would "steal" the ideas. Because it seems to be many (MANY) people's biggest worry about sharing any ideas: that someone will steal them. See the comments in https://sivers.org/how2hir…
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People always say that it's about the 'execution' and not the 'idea', but it's still not a good idea to share your good ideas until you are sure you either will not use it or have already gone past the initial execution stage. Why? There might be a person that has way more resources than you do (or is just better at executing) and will beat you to the market.
Maybe I don't understand what you mean, but I'd argue that if your competitive advantage is that slight, you'll likely get killed even if you make it to market first.
Generally an idea can be any kind of know how. You could've invented a faster algorithm that gives you competitive advantage for some time. If you share the algorithm the advantage is lost.
I don't believe that sharing all your business know hows is going to be beneficial to you.
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#79https://x.ai/ might be similar to Clara Labs.
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#80I don't mean to troll, but having ideas is nothing. Of course projects start with ideas but if the creator of the idea didn't pursue given concept - neither should you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csyL9EC0S0c&feature=youtu.be...
Why shouldn't I? What is the reasoning? Sorry, I don't have audio here so maybe it's mentioned in the youtube video.