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If you're that worried about 'giving the game away,' I'd be worried for you about barriers to entry for whatever market you're hoping to compete in. Otherwise,
by HistoryInAction 17y ago
If you're that worried about 'giving the game away,' I'd be worried for you about barriers to entry for whatever market you're hoping to compete in. Otherwise, I've found that spreading the idea around vastly outweighs the cost of letting the 'wrong' people find out about the idea.
Of course, I haven't been burned in a major way before...
- alain94040 17y agoExactly why I wrote http://blog.fairsoftware.net/2009/03/11/the-great-startup-idea-that-i-cant-reveal-yet/ http://blog.fairsoftware.net/2009/03/11/the-great-startup-id... I still think ideas are very important. A previous poster lists Google as an example of the fact that being first doesn't matter, execution does. Google was first and foremost a new idea (pagerank). And they also executed. And then they got lucky (adwords). But without the idea, they would not have beaten the #1 search engine of the times.