/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>448892
Don't.

>>448892
>fight club
your idea is shit and no one cares

go out and do whatever it is you need to do to achieve some likelihood of success without getting distracted by irrelevant things

>>448892

Go to a lawyer and get them to draft you an NDA.

Don't bother with shit like LegalZoom or other elawyers. Get the real deal.

>>448925

>He thinks an NDA will stop a good idea from being laundered by proxy and implemented with any paper trail.

>>448892
Execution is 90% of the deal. If you can't do it, you may as well give it to someone who can. If you're curious about how not to have perspective investors run off with your idea, presupposing it's good, that indicates you're not capable of executing anyways. Why else would they take your idea and fund someone else to execute it? Simply because they know you can't.

Either way, good luck anon.

>>449003

Well there's always the possibility that the idea holder doesn't have near enough capital to see it through?

>>449026
If it's something that can't be demonstrated or materialized in any way without capital, then it's not going to be invested in.

A good example is some moron that comes up with an idea for a website or app, but isn't a programmer, and expects funding. You need to actually be able to program it, but request funding in order to market it, and advance it further.

>>449026
this. You have an idea but not money to back it up whether it's representing it or executing it.

>>449141
So basically you have nothing but an idea.

Do you know your idea isn't unique at all? Probably not because you're spending so much thought about how to protect the idea rather than how to execute the idea efficiently. Any idea you can think of in the past 20 years that was "new" or "innovative" (outside of medicine) wasn't new at all. They're ideas that have existed for quite some time and someone (or a team) finally executed those ideas well.

If you have no capital to execute the idea, your idea is needlessly expensive and probably a worse idea than launching a zebra at the moon. So don't stress James, let go of your shit, it isn't precious.

Idea men are the scum of the earth. Everyone else at least has the balls to pull the trigger, wealthy individuals had the balls to pull the trigger with conviction.

Sorry for being so harsh, but idea men need to be told to shut the fuck up about how to protect their ideas because they're shit ideas anyways.

Your start up idea isn't great at all. It has probably been done before and it is 100% not worth stealing. Get a grip.

>>449218
This a million times.

Unless you have the cure for cancer developed and ready for FDA-approval, or some groundbreaking space travel teleportation system... your idea WILL NOT BE THAT SPECIAL

It is almost guaranteed to be done before. It just wasn't done well, or it hasn't been done in your region, or it hasn't been done with your customer segment.

The most successful businesspeople in the world took an existing idea and applied it to a region and executed things well (ex. slim in mexico telecom, oil tycoons in russia, tech copycat of US dotcoms in China).

You have to be willing to discuss things or you're not getting anywhere. And your idea probably needs work, which comes through honest feedback.

Besides, even if people can see a good idea, 99.9% of people out there won't know how to launch or won't put in the effort to launch it.

You're safe. Don't waste money on an NDA. Anyone who knows anything about entrepreneurship will laugh in your face when you pass them your NDA about their next big thing idea.