New to the website, and want to share my business idea for opinions.

**MarvinEason** · 11-09-2009 11:36 PM

But is it wise to do so? I mean if it is a great idea, then those who are far more capable than I could actually get the ball rolling right, or am I being paranoid lol.

Any advice would be helpful so I can go forth with it to get opinions.

**Alexishost** · 11-10-2009 08:53 PM

What is the idea? Any Plan?

**viaddress** · 11-11-2009 02:03 AM

hi,
if you are going to start a business, then it is goo to get some opinions about your business plan.
but you should not share it in public.
rather you can share it among friends and well wishers.

**FlysTheLimit** · 11-12-2009 02:30 PM

You should only share your business ideas with those you trust... and even then you have to be careful. Just don't tell anybody who you think could and would take your idea.

**Voi Network** · 11-12-2009 04:24 PM

When you post your business plan in an open forum, you risk having it stolen. It is pretty rotten for people to do that, when you are looking for honest opinons. Feel free to share your plan through PM with me....don't worry I have enough on my plate to worry about stealing someone's plan. I have enough of my own I am working on.

**MortenK** · 11-17-2009 06:05 AM

Never be worried about "someone stealing your idea". Big bad business men, have much better things to do than sit around and steal your ideas. If the idea is easily replicated / stolen, what is going to happen the second you open your business?

So SHARE it, unless of course you have designed the next fantastic search algorithm or an otherwise very highly technical solution. In that case you don't share the inner workings, but demonstrate the functionality.

Ideas by themselves are worth nothing, everyone has them all the time. Thousands of people probably has had the same idea as you. People don't get successfull / rich because of ideas, they get successfull because of the way they execute their idea.

The only way to learn good execution is to start doing it, BUT, if it's your first company, then you need to get as much feedback as possible. 90% of this will most likely be negative. If you get put off by that, then you shouldn't be starting the company. If you IGNORE that negative feedback, then you shouldn't be starting your company either.

You need to get every possible bad aspect or problem of your business idea highlighted and then figure out how to fix that bad aspect / problem. You won't get this by talking with your mom, or your friends about your great new idea.

I can't tell you how many people I've seen talk about their great ideas, with fire in their eyes, but not wanting to disclose further details "as then it might get stolen". It's those same people who is sitting on the couch, the year after talking about how they might have made it big, with that great (still undisclosed) idea of theirs. It's ridicoulous. Ideas are a dime a dozen, what matters it the execution.

Share your idea, learn from and adapt to the criticism you receive. Then excecute it.