You have a super idea that are going to change the world and hacerte multi millionaire in just a short time. But the idea is so good and so easy for doing, that you are scared that somebody clears it to you. Then that to make, to disclose your idea or to maintain it secret?
Several times I have run into with young entrepreneurs who say to me that they have very good ideas but that me they cannot count (Then they mention so that it). This he is one of the common errors but of entrepreneurs of first time. So that it is error?
- The ideas abound and they are not worth anything. What is worth is the equipment, the entrepreneurs, and the execution.
- Hardly somebody is going to leave to foundling everything what they are making to copy your idea.
- It is not your idea you execute until it. If it is a good idea for a product or a service that people want, surely your you are not the only one to which it has been happened to him. But you can be only or the one of first in executing it, and surely, the best one in doing it.
- Between but you promote your idea like business in which either these working, but you are appropriated yourself your idea, since if to somebody it is happened to him to make something similar, and or your beam made a good work in promocianar it, surely is going away to find out that somebody but or this doing and is going to stop in doing it.
- If your idea is so good, inevitably, you are going to have competition. When it leaves direct competition to you, you already have test that your business if is worth the pain and you are not the unique crazy person whom opportunity sees him. Been worth your model of business or at least that if there is demand in your market.
But something of protection can be had, to travez of trade secrets, Non-Disclosure Agreements, Non-you are incumbent on, Copyrights, Trademarks and Patentes.
Trade Secrets: It is it formulates as it of Coca-Cola, is a secret of the company, not this patented (a patent requires that you disclose all your information to I publish), but reveals somebody it, can be demanded. It is but, I believe that there was a Cocaine employee Tail that habia contacted somebody of Pepsi and offered very many silver to him so that it gave to information on Cocaine Tail, but all this was a trap with the collaboration of the two companies and the FBI. If somebody discloses your trade-secrets, can be demanded.
Non Disclosure Agreements: They are contracts that they specify that information that is considered classified, or like trade cannot be disclosed secret, and that can only be disclosed people who esten involved with the project. After it finishes the labor relation (it is of consulting, use, partner, etc.,) all the documents or the secret information/classified to have to be given back to the company.
Non-you are incumbent on: Specific that the person who signs, cannot compete directly with you by I number of time. (Legal Problems with this passes much between Microsoft and Google) and generlamente specific that is what exactemente they cannot do.
Copyrights + Trademarks: This already is but specific to your mark and your branding. For example if your application Web is mensajescortos, musicagratis, internetrapido, you are not going it to be able to put it as registered tradename reason why the name is of common use, must be something original and that nobody in your industry the east doing. (Automotive Nissan has not been able to win to him to nissan.com in the court, because nissan.com sells computers, and Nissan sells cars). In the case of copyrights, something this prote'ge' under author right immediately has a physical representation (bony that no longer this in your mind), prints your logos, burning fire your videos/songs, and enviatelos same with mail certificate and stamp of date. That will be sufficient for certainty of when you created the content.
Patents: 3 years are delayed more or less, that are long time for one startup in Internet. But one can postulate a “Provisional Patent”, and the idea is to begin but general possible, since if gives back it to you, you can return to postulate with something but specific, but he is better to avoid to be too specific from the beginning, because or if competition does not change a pair to it of things and don't mention it serves your patent. The patents, in my opinion, do not serve as much in Internet, (Friendster I gain the patent of Social Networking, if ridiculous, to equal respects it nobody) but gives tranquility to the investors, knowledge him who you have intellectual property, aid to raise the value of your company, and that if your company fails, of something sirvira your patent. Thus it is for selling it or demanding another people.
What I would recommend to do is to disclose your idea with the greater amount of people than you can, therefore they become bored to listen to your idea (the family and friendly possibly become bored of your madnesses, but equal they support to you), since one secures investment, clients and partners of mouth in mouth, with social networking, that suddenly the accountant of the uncle of the friend of your fianc2ee knows an investor whom it perhaps likes your idea. If you do not say to him to anybody, but difficult it is going to be to find investment/clients. (the lawyers and the accountants are very good nodes of connection, haste friendly of them).
But you follow paranoiac, equal something because to disclose the benefits of your idea without saying exactly as he works. For example, if you were first in inventing a way to create fire, podrias to say to him to everybody something like:
“My company this working in creating a product/method that worked to provide heat, to cook, and light. It is to be able to create fire of the anything.”
If they estan interested in knowing but details, you can ask to them that they sign NDA (Non Disclosure Agreement)
Imaginate that the companions of Mark Zuckerberg had made him sign non-is incumbent on, surely today not existiria facebook, or at least, they could to him have won in the court to Mark they accused when it to have robbed his idea. (They lost the case)
The problem with this is that no investor is going to be according to thus signing a contract, reason why receive so many supplies and ideas that is very easy that some project has something similar to another project, or that if they invest in something remotely similar they demand, them worse based on a contract like a NDA and even, Non-Be incumbent on. Equal the business of them not this in copying ideas of entrepreneurs.
Generally, you lose but opportunities hiding your project that the risk of telling it to potential partners, investors and clients.
http://pulsosocial.com/2009/04/04/idea-secreto-error/
