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If I had a really great idea I absolutely would build it in stealth as far as possible, to give the greatest possible advantage before launching it. Consider C

If I had a really great idea I absolutely would build it in stealth as far as possible, to give the greatest possible advantage before launching it. Consider ClubHouse - remember them? It's a great idea and every single big player has cloned them into their product. Consider facebook itself - the movie says that the idea was from the Winklevoss twins but MZ lifted it. You're crazy if you think a really really great idea is worthless and should be shared around. If you've got a truly groundingbreaking idea then you should get as far ahead as you possibly can before going public with it. Ideas are not inherently worthless - an idea is an ingredient and there are lots of people out there with the other ingredients to turn it into something awesome. MOST ideas however aren't likely to be amazing and will be hard to convince people to believe in.

asddubs 5y ago
the caveat to that is that I don't think every single big player would have integrated clubhouse into their product just upon hearing the idea. it was seen to be successful, which is a lot easier to observe than predict
- jimmySixDOF 5y ago
  >it was seen to be successful That has a Chicken-or-the-Egg problem. You need high level talent and resources to develop your 'High Quality Implementation'; but those talents and resources only start to become available, at least to us mere mortals, if there is already an MVP Prototype in hand to work with. Squaring that Circle, while still holding on to the steering wheel, is a big part of crossing the chasm from a potential Idea to a real world product you can bring to market and test if it actually was a good Idea to work with in the first place.