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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?
#2If your idea was so simple that a friend could steal AND execute as YOU envisioned, your friend isn't he problem--your idea is.
Re: Advice needed: "friend" stole my idea...what to do?
#3how about partnering with your friend, seeing as you are the originator of the idea. Does he need you to execute upon this idea?
Has he launched yet?
Re: Advice needed: "friend" stole my idea...what to do?
#4If your idea was so simple that a friend could steal AND execute as YOU envisioned, your friend isn't he problem--your idea is.
depends on what he told the friend. Having a long drawn out chat over several weeks could be possible. But i guess its the idea itself which is to be questioned
Re: Advice needed: "friend" stole my idea...what to do?
#5Back in Jan I went to a person well respected in the startup community (PG knows her) in BOS. She was a friend of a friend, I've known her for years..she previously had a high profile startup that crashed in the dotcom era. I wanted to bounce the idea off her and get her feedback. So I sent a presentation (marked confidential) and followed up with an hour long chat, which was helpful. She moved to the west coast the day after we talked and 2 weeks later I find that she taken my 90% of my idea, mixed it up with social network and gotten seed funding from a small west coast VC. I've been developing this idea on a shoestring and on the side for 6 months. I've got a lot invested in this. She's hired a indian development firm and been spamming blogs with her site name to get registrations. I've applied for a patent, but not sure it can be of any help right now. What action should I be taking? (besides wanting to run her over)
Re: Advice needed: "friend" stole my idea...what to do?
#6If your idea was so simple that a friend could steal AND execute as YOU envisioned, your friend isn't he problem--your idea is.
depends on what he told the friend. Having a long drawn out chat over several weeks could be possible. But i guess its the idea itself which is to be questioned
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Re: Advice needed: "friend" stole my idea...what to do?
#7Back in Jan I went to a person well respected in the startup community (PG knows her) in BOS. She was a friend of a friend, I've known her for years..she previously had a high profile startup that crashed in the dotcom era. I wanted to bounce the idea off her and get her feedback. So I sent a presentation (marked confidential) and followed up with an hour long chat, which was helpful. She moved to the west coast the…
Doesn't help much, but one thing you can do is feel good that you have good ideas. The second thing you can do is launch a competitor immediately. If she's using an outsourcing firm and isn't actually doing the development herself you've got a huge advantage. Use it.
I'd be willing to bet that since it was your idea, you have a much better understanding of the problem and how you're solving it than she does. Use that too. See where she falls down in her offering and exploit it.
Just my two cents.
Re: Advice needed: "friend" stole my idea...what to do?
#8Well...
1. Partner with her if possible.
2. Get a lawyer's opinion. There may be legal actions you can take, but I can't provide any advice on this.
3. Build faster and launch faster than her.
Re: Advice needed: "friend" stole my idea...what to do?
#9Back in Jan I went to a person well respected in the startup community (PG knows her) in BOS. She was a friend of a friend, I've known her for years..she previously had a high profile startup that crashed in the dotcom era. I wanted to bounce the idea off her and get her feedback. So I sent a presentation (marked confidential) and followed up with an hour long chat, which was helpful. She moved to the west coast the…
Did she take your presentation too?
Re: Advice needed: "friend" stole my idea...what to do?
#10Back in Jan I went to a person well respected in the startup community (PG knows her) in BOS. She was a friend of a friend, I've known her for years..she previously had a high profile startup that crashed in the dotcom era. I wanted to bounce the idea off her and get her feedback. So I sent a presentation (marked confidential) and followed up with an hour long chat, which was helpful. She moved to the west coast the…
Did she take your presentation too?
Yes, it's still sitting in her gmail account. :-(