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"Yet this isn't exactly what this article is talking about. I agree with the article in general-- that "stealth mode" is usually unnecessary and isolating and t
by paulhauggis 14y ago
"Yet this isn't exactly what this article is talking about. I agree with the article in general-- that "stealth mode" is usually unnecessary and isolating and that people simply stealing an idea is pretty rare to non-existent. What's even more rare is someone successfully stealing an idea. Usually anyone mediocre enough to want to lift someone else's idea isn't up to execution."
What about companies that have more resources than the lone-app developer/company? If it's a good idea, they could have it to market before you even have a chance to finish. Yes, eventually this might happen anyway, but why give them a chance to get it out there before you?
- rhizome 14y agoWhat about companies that have more resources than the lone-app developer/company? Organizational inertia. It takes longer to steer a large ship.
- jyap 14y agoIt doesn't need a large ship. It can be a dedicated smaller team but one fully equipped with more resources (servers, a marketing department) compared to the start up.
- omegant 14y agoJust to take a decision on copying the idea, creating the team, how many people, degrees of independance, internal politic on who is on charge of tha team.... Only with that it is going to take at least 6 months in a big company. If not a year... then when they have created the product, all the departments will want to have a part of the pie. So te dance begins again.
- rhizome 14y agoOK, a larger ship, which is the topic at hand. More resources means more complexity. Just last night my girlfriend was up for a couple hours late on a Saturday night PM'ing a bugfix for a missing ellipsis in her (very large and technologically famous) company's website's "...More Info" link. It took 10 hours to get her off the hook, and it's still not fixed.