Advice needed: "friend" stole my idea...what to do?

Re:Advice needed: "friend" stole my idea...what to do? by jkush on Thursday April 26, 2007 @11:04AM (#16985)

Doesn't help much, but one thing you can do is feel good that you have good ideas. The second thing you can do is launch a competitor immediately. If she's using an outsourcing firm and isn't actually doing the development herself you've got a huge advantage. Use it.

I'd be willing to bet that since it was your idea, you have a much better understanding of the problem and how you're solving it than she does. Use that too. See where she falls down in her offering and exploit it.

Just my two cents.

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Re:Advice needed: "friend" stole my idea...what to do? by pg on Thursday April 26, 2007 @11:54AM (#17016)

I agree: launch a competitor immediately.

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Re:Advice needed: "friend" stole my idea...what to do? by msufianhameed on Thursday April 26, 2007 @10:36PM (#17291)

i agree too:do it as fast as you can. wish you all the best.

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Re:Advice needed: "friend" stole my idea...what to do? by vikram on Friday April 27, 2007 @07:28AM (#17364)

Once it's launched, contact the same blogs that she has and say look we've already started, you don't need to wait.

Force her to launch earlier than she wants to. The other thing I'd say is some 37Signals advice. Hold back some completed functionality at the time of launch. Release it in a week or twos time. Thus demonstrating that not only did you launch but you are constantly going to be ahead of her.

Finally, please use the anger judiciously. Instead of running her over, crush her spirit.

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