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Originally Posted by nado
yep I know, it's just a little hard to explain what I'm trying to do without completely giving away the idea.
I probably should have realised that no one on these forums would have started their own credit card.
Any advice on where I should go/start?
Who do I need to 'know'?
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nado, believe me - everyone wants to help but you are not making it very easy to help you.
what you are doing is the wrong way to to go about building companies.
you need to spell out a vision, it doesn't have to detail the unique selling proposition, but it does have to describe the kind of problem you are solving.
to be more exact: paranoia on the part of entrepreneurs is the first sign of inexperience. fail to correct this flaw in your decision making and your startups aren't gonna get started.
if you weren't a cool guy, I'd tell you that you're being a person who is experiencing deficiency in understanding of fundamentals (a fucken idiot). your startup needs you, it needs you to tell everybody who wants to hear about it, it wants to be born and it wants to do great things. by locking it up and restricting it's development - you are being a shitty parent, and what you are gonna get is infant mortality.
Disclaimer: Please note that my analysis of your decision making capacities is based on empirical evidence. You need to change how you make decisions. Going stealth mode, at your age, in your situation, is a mistake.
Stealth mode, is a concept rooted in corporate R&D. Stealth mode, as a concept, was never developed by entrepreneurs who used it to have more successful track records. Likewise, the dotbombs that used it 5 years ago, are all long gone - and their circumstances where different to yours - they were sitting on millions in cash and could quickly buy market share. Alas, after millions were blown stealth modes, there was no evidence that stealth correlates with more market share. Perhaps the only reason to use it, is to build buzz - but to do that you need to be Marc Andersen (founder of Netscape) doing ning.com
With your circumstances, there is no value to be gained by keeping your mouth shut - it just looks stupid. You need to correct this by shouting your business plan off the rooftops, hoping that at least somebody has some kind of passing interest and that they can at least give you some hope that you will survive.
