Do startup ideas get stolen?

Question

Startups

I want to present the idea to investors at one of the business meetings. There is a myth that ideas are worthless. Is it so? How likely is it that if the idea is good it will be copied?

Answer 1

They steal business schemes / business models of such ideas, and the ideas themselves are of no interest to anyone.
A competent presentation of an idea is an "iceberg" mode: we show only a small fraction of interesting information, so that without knowing everything in its entirety, the listener could not realize what you generally intended.
If the idea is simple and impossible to present in a small part, then such an idea most likely will not "shoot" and will not be interesting to the target audience as something new and unique. And accordingly, you will not receive the expected income.

Answer 2

What exactly to copy?
Is there a product? Are there any users/customers? Is there a team at the end?
Does anyone really need this idea? If so, why hasn't anyone implemented it?
Start with these questions.

Answer 3

If your idea can be stolen and made better than you after a short presentation, then it is better to refuse to implement it.
You need to have a clear vision of what is valuable in your idea and how to turn that idea into a valuable product. Without this understanding, the idea does not make sense and you will not receive investments. And if there is an understanding and it is justified, it is more profitable to invest in you than to try to do it yourself.

Answer 4

According to the idea, if you like your idea, then it is easier to invest in you than to do it yourself from scratch. That's why they are investors. The main thing is to present correctly.

Answer 5

If they want to steal, they will steal ideas even without presentations: MySpace -> Facebook -> Vk :)
But they want to give money, but you don't.
And finally: "Better a titmouse in the hands than a crane in the jo .. in the sky!"

Answer 6

For theft
1. Only a detailed diagram of what and how to do is interesting.
2. The specific implementation is interesting.
Ideas are in the air and come to different people at the same time.
It all depends on the two points above.

Answer 7

Recently on VC.ru there was an article about the Chinese. One person created a project on Kickstarter and saw the product on Alibaba two weeks later. But this is likely to happen rarely.

Answer 8

"Good artists copy, great artists steal"
It all starts with a great idea, BUT this is just a starting point and nothing more.
As a rule, 99% of ideas remain just ideas.
It is extremely difficult and 99% impossible to grow something suitable for sale on the market on your own from an idea.
It is necessary that the idea be supported by investments.
So it turns out that on the one hand, generators of great ideas, and on the other hand, the owners of material values.
I am sure that there are always investors ready to invest money.
"Just" they need to be shown / told / convinced: to sell that your project is worth this investment.
I think in the presentation it is necessary to concentrate on the result of this idea and try to predict its demand in the market and, accordingly, how much it will be possible to earn on it.
The questions of how much to spend and on what, I think, should be left out of the brackets.
I suppose that many investors go to such events with their "generators" of ideas and their role is to "feel" your idea as much as possible and try to copy it as much as possible.
Your task is, first of all, to interest, BUT, and besides that, play in such a way that the "generator" of the investor's ideas tells his investor something like:
"Of course, we can try without him, BUT I don't guarantee the result, ... it's better to invest in him project..."

Answer 9

The human inertia of thinking is rather the opposite.
Until at least something starts to really work out for you, no one will strain to copy.