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If they blatantly stole your idea - don't worry. The type of people who can't think originally enough to come up with their own idea are probably not going to execute it well either.

The same principle applies when someone else has the same idea as you at the same time, and you catch wind of it right in the middle of your implementation of that idea. It might be slightly more difficult, since you arrived at the same good idea independently of each other. Just focus on executing better.

Ideas are a dime a dozen - they aren't worth anything in and of themselves.

If they blatantly copy your code, as is the case here, then it becomes slightly worse, an actual legal issue. But again I wouldn't worry too much since I'm willing to bet that they aren't that good at coding either.




>The type of people who can't think originally enough to come up with their own idea are probably not going to execute it well either.

* Ideas != execution. They may be excellent executors but not good at ideas (Apple in the early days).

* If they beat you to market see what works for them and what doesn't.

* If you beat them to market use them as an example that the market is viable (competition is good for business).

* If they do execution well, hire their best executors. It takes a company to embrace an idea, but a single person to execute part of that idea well; hire that person.

* It is not stealing to learn from someone else's failures. Competitors are market sensors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horizontal_gene_transfer


Trying telling that to the the Winklevoss twins and see if they agree.


Having a hard time feeling sorry for the Winklevoss twins. The market paid them more than what they were worth.



The world market is big enough for everyone :-)




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