Smaller Overseas Entrepreneurs Find China Too Frustrating

Re:Smaller Overseas Entrepreneurs Find China Too Frustrating by argonaut on Sunday November 08, 2015 @01:48AM (#10527796)

I think this is missing the forest for the trees. It is totally fine to tell people in China your idea. But the point is, your local employees might steal the execution as well. That is, they'll steal blueprints, designs, code. They'll poach other employees. They'll take with them knowledge of your suppliers, your buyers, your customers. And so on.

In SV the common wisdom is that it's fine to tell people your ideas. But nobody is suggesting you give out your code or your blueprints and designs, and put up a spreadsheet on your website of the contact info for all your suppliers and buyers, and all your customer data.

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Re:Smaller Overseas Entrepreneurs Find China Too Frustrating by contingencies on Sunday November 08, 2015 @06:38PM (#10530545)

Where did you get the idea "Evil Chinese want to steal all your goodies"? I am sitting here on the ground in China with actual experience getting things done, and you are someplace else making some ridiculous hand-waving assertions about the character of 1.4 billion people you've never met, and I am getting downvoted ridiculously. Thank god I don't live in the US: the arrogance, introversion and ignorance is absurd.

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Re:Smaller Overseas Entrepreneurs Find China Too Frustrating by argonaut on Monday November 09, 2015 @10:36PM (#10537467)

I was restating / clarifying what the person you were replying to was saying. I think I was overly dismissive (can't edit my comment now), but my response was more in response to my perception that you were being overly dismissive of the parent's ideas ("This sounds a lot like the unfounded", "Sure, but even these things are not valuable", etc.)

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