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Advice needed: "friend" stole my idea...what to do?
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Re: Advice needed: "friend" stole my idea...what to do?
#72I read all the comments and can't believe no one gave you some concrete advice. Sure, ideas are worthless until they are implemented but that does not JUSTIFY someone STEALING your idea and breaching the confidentiality! Just because you haven't implemented your idea fully, does NOT mean someone's JUSTIFIED to STEAL it! Here's what you should do: expose her! That's right, start a blog, start the website for your idea…
not a good idea
Re: Advice needed: "friend" stole my idea...what to do?
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ideas ARE worthless. "Here's another way to look at it. If merely telling someone your idea means that it can be ripped off, then you hardly have a defensible product. If secrecy is your main weapon, then it will be hard to find investors. By the way, what happens when you ship? Are you going to ask every customer to sign a nondisclosure too?" And what about your first employees? (quote from an Old Guy Kawasaki Colum…
Most webapps are trivial to implement, and the real value is in the idea. Given the idea, a competent programmer-designer could probably whip out most of the popular webapps out there easily.
bullshit.
ideas are cheap, implementation is hard.
I am very competent web app developer, with several major applications under my belt. While on the surface you might think you will be able to whip out a clone of one of the popular web apps easily (let alone a brand new idea) but you will find the devil is in the details. What makes or breaks those sites are the thousands of minute implementation level decisions which build up to make a quality application.
Re: Advice needed: "friend" stole my idea...what to do?
#74Re: Advice needed: "friend" stole my idea...what to do?
#75Earlier quoted context omitted.
MySpace definitely executed well, but no one has a monopoly on good execution. In your original comment, you said that if someone else could execute as well as he could, then there's something wrong with the idea. That's not true. There's a good chance that the poster is already screwed, because the person who stole his idea is probably competent. Just because the idea has been marinating in his head longer doesn't m…
Simple: has that woman built the product as well as the OP planned; has she achieved/executed the marketing plans as well as he is planning to? I want to bet the answer to both questions is "no" in which case at this point it is a probably a waste of his time to even think of her. Back in '01 when my uncle was doing his startup, couple months before his site's launch we ran across a site that was VERY similar to what…
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Re: Advice needed: "friend" stole my idea...what to do?
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
Trust in karma. "Vengeance is mine, I will repay," saith the Lord. :)
Karma doesn't exist. http://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/Ellis11.html
That article falls a bit short, though. While probably there is no metaphysic power enforcing a karma balance, I like to think of the karma concept as simply another formulation of common wisdom. Some murderers get away with murder, but most probably don't, or if they do, they suffer from it etc. Likewise stealing ideas as a habit might eventually ruin your reputation and your career (although you might be filthy rich by the time).
Re: Advice needed: "friend" stole my idea...what to do?
#77What are your options ... you can launch something better? Unless you have a patent, there is no point trying to talk to her .... What is your background and what is this idea? I would like to evaluate it better ...
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Wait, is teenwag.com the actual competition??? (down here at -10 points!) If so, it's interesting to see what the "idea" was in the first place.
Re: Advice needed: "friend" stole my idea...what to do?
#79Hm, I have some good advice for you... but I'm not sure about some details, why don't you e-mail me your presentation so I can work those out? :-D
Re: Advice needed: "friend" stole my idea...what to do?
#80I read all the comments and can't believe no one gave you some concrete advice. Sure, ideas are worthless until they are implemented but that does not JUSTIFY someone STEALING your idea and breaching the confidentiality! Just because you haven't implemented your idea fully, does NOT mean someone's JUSTIFIED to STEAL it! Here's what you should do: expose her! That's right, start a blog, start the website for your idea…
Why waste the energy on revenge? Even if you succeed at destroying her startup, you'll be left with nothing. She won't have anything either, but that's pretty cold comfort.
Implement the idea yourself and do it better than she does.