Telling People your idea - Yes or No

[Refrusloi]

Do yall think it's a good idea to tell people about your business idea, or would it get stollen? (In other words if its a new idea and you havent started on building it yet)

[Shamou]

Either way they will find out about it sooner or later... so, one year down the road... it will probably not make any difference...
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[Interpreneur]

If it's something that has never been done and has the potential of making your lots of money, go ahead and get a patent...then go on a media tour.

If it's something you plan to do, you can tell people you trust and who will be supportive. But I wouldn't bother telling people who will tell you that it will never work. You don't need those people around you anyway.

[Uplift]

I think it depends on why you are considering it. Look closely at a lot of success from scratch stories. See the self certainty, self assuredness and self reliance. This may not apply to you, but a lot of people feel that they need others to get things going, or that someone else may have more clout, contacts, influence or power. It is suprising where you can get if you truly commit, truly look into things, and truly pay attention to detail. Sure, its wise and often necessary to seek knowledge, assistance and help, but make sure you are not surrendering your idea and its outcome due to a lack of self belief. Otherwise someone else with that self belief will be the one profiting.

[John Hill]

I don't think it makes any difference whether you tell people your idea or not, it only matters that you take Action. Once you take action and continue with it, you will already be in front of anyone else that wants to copy your ideas.

John

Attracting People.com

[MartialDev]

In all probability, a dozen people already had the same idea, and failed to follow up on it. Ideas are cheap, execution is difficult.

[healthymind]

I wouldn't but not because I fear the idea being stolen. That's just a fear. I would keep it to myself for the simple reason that everyone on the planet has an opinion about things and unless your idea sounds beneficial to the other person, they will probably tell you negative things about it. Which unless you're extremely resilient to this kind of feedback will probably leach the passion out of it and fill you with doubts. Wait until it's up and running and bringing you the satisfaction you are looking for. Then shout it to the world!

You don't need anyone elses validation to start your own idea. Richard Branson didn't need x number of people to agree that his ideas were great before he put them into action. You don't either.

[Max Power]

Originally Posted by Refrusloi

Do yall think it's a good idea to tell people about your business idea, or would it get stollen? (In other words if its a new idea and you havent started on building it yet)

Most people, especially those who will want to copy, will never do anything until your idea is a success.

Max

[1000feet]

It's true that you don't want to give away every detail - how much you should hide depends on the idea, but it's very rare to find something that's obviously very profitable and easy to do. There's a lot more decent ideas that take lots of work and have to be done the right way, so it's safe to talk about them.

It's true that you should be self-reliant enough to go through with it on your own if you want to succeed, but there's limits to that. If you try to do everything yourself yo increase your chances of failing - if you give people around you a general idea of what you're doing and try to meet new people who are involved in related areas you'll find a lot of people who help you out a little because they like your idea, they like you, or it's a mutually beneficial arrangement. Just talking about what you're doing is the difference between success and failure for some people.

[Shamou]

Originally Posted by 1000feet

If you try to do everything yourself yo increase your chances of failing - if you give people around you a general idea of what you're doing and try to meet new people who are involved in related areas you'll find a lot of people who help you out a little because they like your idea, they like you, or it's a mutually beneficial arrangement. Just talking about what you're doing is the difference between success and failure for some people.

Very good advice as usual my friend...
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[Freelancer]

I wouldn't worry about idea's being stolen, to you the idea probably sounds really awesome in your head. To anybody else its well just another dream.

Besides even IF they think its a worthwhile idea 99.999% of the time they won't follow through because there doubts/fears and limiting beliefs catch up with them.

Oh yeah something I noticed, put down your idea's on a notepad and don't look at it for a week. I'm an idiot most of the time but I noticed that most of my idea's look really silly after a week, the ones that still look awesome are usually the golden nuggets of the bunch.

[vladtess]

The world is a loudmouth -- you tell it to you mom (a trusted personell) and the whole world is going to know it, which creates a potential threat that your idea will be stolen.

I suggest you see if your idea is already patented. If not, do so. Then brag all you want.