You should always be scared of your innovative ideas being redeveloped by someone else. But until it’s been proven to work copycats won’t bother trying. Their g

You should always be scared of your innovative ideas being redeveloped by someone else. But until it’s been proven to work copycats won’t bother trying. Their goal is to get rich quick and until you’ve established your ability to make money in an empirical way it’s very unlikely someone will steal it. But once you’ve demonstrated even a modicum of success the copycats will swarm like locusts, or maybe mosquitos or hair lice or other annoying parasites.