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How do you prevent people stealing other’s ideas? I feel it’s risky to post your possibly-millions-worth business idea in the Internet.
Everyone has ideas. Success is about execution. If your business model is threatened by someone merely hearing about it , you're doing something wrong.
How do you prevent people stealing other’s ideas? I feel it’s risky to post your possibly-millions-worth business idea in the Internet.
The idea itself isn't really the hard part of building a company. Otherwise, people would be "selling" ideas, and not businesses[0]!
How do you prevent people stealing other’s ideas? I feel it’s risky to post your possibly-millions-worth business idea in the Internet.
This is brilliant and it's the best example of MVP that I have seen.
How do you prevent people stealing other’s ideas? I feel it’s risky to post your possibly-millions-worth business idea in the Internet.
Similar to how companies rarely fail due to competition, ideas are rarely the sole reason for a company's success. "Stealing" an idea doesn't really happen unless someone else has the means and will to execute it. The idea itself isn't really the hard part of building a company. Otherwise, people would be "selling" ideas, and not businesses[0]! [0] http://www.paulgraham.com/ideas.html
Also, the same skills required to come up with good ideas are probably the same skills required to make those ideas work. If you're experienced enough to know there's a need in some market, you'll only succeed if you have experience enough to develop and sell a solution. So, if someone successfully takes the market from under you they were probably already ahead of you even when you were first.
But the above quote is also why I'm skeptical of validating ideas in the landing page stage. The walkman was just as good as the iPod until I spent 5 minutes using the iPod, but no landing page would've convinced me.
This is brilliant and it's the best example of MVP that I have seen.
Love it!