Every now and then, we meet people are terrified, mortified and petrified that someone might steal their idea and so, they are extra skeptical to discuss the ideas with people who could help them with developing the idea into something serious and workable.
Anyone stealing your idea is actually the least of your worries.
The truth of the matter is that if you truly own an idea, nobody can steal it from you. An idea depends a lot on the individual’s knowledge base and experiences; 2 people with the same exact idea can build 2 very different projects out of it.
The things you should worry about should include (but definitely not limited to):
- Idea viability verification; proof that the idea is useful to people in the real world (hard to do if scared idea will get stolen)
- Definition of a MVP (Minimum Viable Product)
- Development of the MVP
- Marketing the product to the real end users (not the tourists and spectators you find on startup community forums)
- Growing the business not too fast to break the whole thing and not too slow for competitors or incumbents to knock you out.
Amidst all these tasks, I wonder where the luxury of worrying about people stealing your ideas come from. If an idea is yours, nobody can execute it like you.
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Watching The World
- Twitter Ads now (finally) available in Nigeria and over 200 countries
- As schools get ready to resume a new session, Google just added some more superpowers to their education-targeted products.
