Lessons Learned from Trying to Break into Professional Screenwriting

Re:Lessons Learned from Trying to Break into Professional Sc... by CM30 on Sunday April 02, 2017 @05:02PM (#14019032)

On a related note, I love this quote from the article. Because it also sums up entrepreneurs and startup ideas perfectly:

"You could post your life’s work online for the world to see, read, and download, and you’d still have better odds to be killed by a lightning strike than be ripped off and cheated out of millions of dollars."

Same goes for startup founders and creators there. The chance of someone 'stealing' your ideas and turning them into the next Google or Facebook are pretty much non existent. Enough with the pointless NDAs and paranoia before your company's even started.

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Re:Lessons Learned from Trying to Break into Professional Sc... by slm_HN on Sunday April 02, 2017 @07:40PM (#14019694)

>The chance of someone 'stealing' your ideas and turning them into the next Google or Facebook are pretty much non existent.

Of the companies you listed fully 50% were founded as the direct result of ripping off someone's idea and starting a company.

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Re:Lessons Learned from Trying to Break into Professional Sc... by shshhdhs on Sunday April 02, 2017 @08:00PM (#14019773)

And the other just created a better version of already existing ideas.

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Re:Lessons Learned from Trying to Break into Professional Sc... by maverick_iceman on Sunday April 02, 2017 @09:36PM (#14020071)

Which one?

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