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Why your idea for an Internet start-up will not get stolen (viewshound.com)
8 points by ianhowlett on June 14, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments


To test the OP's theory, I just submitted a post with my idea for a new movie app here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2654826

Essentially its an app that allows you to report any disturbances while watching a movie in theaters. I think the idea is solid. I figure there's nothing wrong with a little real-life application of the OP's theory that ideas don't get jacked.



Perhaps not quite a like-for-like case though, this one looks more like a detailed forensic "open the books" examination, rather than a chat over coffee. I'm sure there are some cases where ideas do get stolen and made successful (a bit of Googling quickly turns up Steve Blank's experience on this), but I think these examples are probably rare enough to make them noteworthy.




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