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Pitch Your Idea. There's Nothing to Steal [yet] Anyway

Sharing a post from a tech group because this is a huge topic around various tech startup circles, especially newbies in the space.

"So I've come to learn what is far more important than worrying about locking down in stealth mode: actually getting to work on your offering, exchanging ideas, and telling as many people as you can about your idea to get as much feedback as possible. Some think that this is obvious, but apparently it's still not to a lot of newcomers.  The bottom line is, while you think you have something BIG to protect (and everyone thinks so) you have nothing to protect right now except a bunch of hot air. We've had ideas that we thought were certainly going to be the next big thing. We worried about NDAs, patents, etc. Guess what? They all "failed" and we were worrying about protecting nothing, instead of working towards figuring out if the idea was a good one with tests, prototypes, and asking our audience. Time wasted that could've been better spent. We were blowing smoke. Get to work and you'll have something worth protecting down the road. You might say someone stole your idea (lets assume someone cared enough) and ended up making out big off of it, but did they actually steal your idea or were they just inspired by it and made something totally different than you would have made? Is that really stealing, or does it just show more initiative on their part? Now you're telling yourself that they made the product you would have made, but being honest, you don't really know that because you never made it. Zuckerberg is Zuck and the Winklevoss twins are… the Winklevii."