Yep. If I thought a 3 month head start was the major competitive advantage for my team, I'd go find a day job. If you think the stuff you write on that applic

Yep. If I thought a 3 month head start was the major competitive advantage for my team, I'd go find a day job. If you think the stuff you write on that application (did someone call it a "BLUEPRINT"?!) has anything but the most tenuous connection to what your software/strategy will look like in 3-6 months, you're smoking something. The problem with secret ideas is that they are secret to your users, too. We literally got onto TechCrunch with three speculative jpg mockups and barely a line of code... We were buried with amazing feedback and ideas and fairly quickly became very smart about the market we were playing in. We got offers to help. The level of interest was incredibly motivating. Startup geeks are passionate about THEIR ideas. Not yours. The risk that a great team is sitting around waiting for an idea is absolutely minuscule compared to the reward of exploring the market.