I have the best idea EVER!!  

I have a friend who co-manages a business we put up. I always tell him ideas if ever i come up with something and he does the same. He's a friend but when it comes to business we always split it in half. No friendship issues are present in our mini business.

The only people I do tell is my hubby, son or step children as I do trust them that they are not going to step over me and steal away my ideas. If anything my hubby will support me and probably help me get things started as he always does. Not that I've ever come across anything sucessful like you said would grow into something big but just small projects or money making things.
I would not tell anyone except the people mentioned already, wait for it to publicize, listen to what people think about it by hearing their comments, then admit it was my idea.

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If I have an idea which would help a friend but would be no use to me, then I would tell them. If I have an idea which would help me and a friend then I admit that I will use it before I tell anyone about it. At the end of the day, if the idea is mine, then I think that it is up to me to use it and reap the potential rewards from it.

Yes! When ebay first started my husband and I started buying and later selling on the site. Everyone would ask me to help them list there items for sell, and I told my husband we should start a business listing other peoples stuff on ebay for them. He didn't like the idea. Now I see these signs "We sell your stuff for you on eBay" and it makes me sick! I had that idea about ten years ago, and now their is a full global business making a killing...I missed the boat because I didn't just do it on my own. Don't make the same mistake that I did, if you have an idea, get busy and don't let other people tell you a thing about it!

hello barkey,

Just the right time you started this discussion. Whenever new ideas came in my mind especially about business,I usually tell someone like family & relatives what they think about it. Few months ago I have actually this great idea of starting a small business,told my aunt about this in the presence of some relatives.Then I have to go out of town for few days & decided that when I'm back I will start that small business only to find out that a relative of mine already started it,all the ideas that I have.Well I just leave it all,let them do it,now I found out they stopped doing it.I actually started a small business again not telling anyone but then a cousin of mine saw it & just a few days ago,another cousin ask me if how is it doing as he wanted also to do it as well.Well,it actually don't matter to me since everyone is free & entitled to do anything but can't they think of anything else instead of waiting for others to start it & steal the idea.

If it is an invention or something like you see on the TV commerials then there is this online group that will help you patten your invention. Davidson something is the name of it but I am sure if you google it you can find it. They are the people that have helped put items like the Foot Egg and Pedi paws on the market. Getting a patten on your inventions is the most important step as it will help keep others from stealing your ideas.

hi there barkeybark.

interesting topic you have here. =)

well, at times when i have a unique (well, whenever i feel that they are), i am quite hesitant to share em unless i did something with my idea to make it my own. hehe. i know this sounds kinda selfish, but whenever you have a great idea you want it to be known as yours.

i've had so many good ideas, both work related and non-work relate ideas, and shared them to other people. but when my idea is appreciated, i don't get the credit.

there was one time i did a pretty good job at work. i was asked to write a module. however, it is not copyrighted. it was impressive. and when other people started using it, they made it their own. when my boss asked who initiated such work, one of my co-workers took the credit. i asked her what were her resources and materials, she just bluffed her way out. it kinda hurt me because i spent sleepless night just to make my idea come to life. and all i got was someone stealing the proper credit.

i dont wanna be selfish, but when i know i have an idea that will be big, i opt to keep it to myself first. do something about it. make sure i get a little recognition (not appraisal) for what i've done..and finally share it.

it is a nice feeling sharing what you know to others. it's just you have be a little guarded on how soon you make it know. =)

I have already been posted this kind of discussion but not totally like this one but it is more like this one. I have some great ideas but I'm afraid to share it because i already had a bad experience in sharing my ideas. There is this one time that i had made a good tutorial in earning money online and some one copy it and posted in on his forum his a moderator there and he claims that it was his ideas and he became my rival since then. But lucky him even though the idea was not really belongs to him he earn good money from it and I have been left behind because since then he became a competitors of mine, he had a lot of free time to work online compare to mine because I have a full time job. In short I already give up that idea and accept it that I'm looser for sharing one of my unique ideas for free. But today I came up a better strategy and that is selling my ideas as an ebook so even though we became rivals and competitors as long as he paid me for reading my ebooks or unique strategy It's just ok to me.

Hi barkeybark..

I have watched the movie Extraordinary Measures by Harrison Ford and Brandon Frasher.. The story line is that Brandon has his kids with POMPE disease where the muscles cant burn the sugar and cant or something like it and it causes internal organ enlargement and it includes the heart. Harrison Ford as as a research doctor had an IDEA to cure POMPE but never really made it as a usable medicine because of the fact that his pride dont want anybody's hand on his research.

So thats the idea. Sometimes it's better to share the idea. But sometimes someone might steal it from you.

By the way Brandon Frashers kids in the movie recovered from POMPE because of Harrisons research. Hihihi

Hi Barkeybark,

Uhh I have to admit to being very curious about your big idea now. If I hear that anyone has a big idea I am always hugely curious to know what it is because I don't usually have any of my own

I can get quite a few small ideas which I normally keep to myself. Generally I don't like to share my ideas because if I don't then manage to fulfil them I feel like a fool for having them in the first place. Normally I will tell the idea after I have managed to do it so I can maybe prove my commitment and get a pat on the back or something! If I fail I am also sometimes inclined to share what happened as a warning to other people, or because it probably helped shape something about my personality which I feel it important to tell people about.

But yea if I ever get a big idea I would probably tell close friends, and then swear them to secrecy. I wouldn't tell just anyone though, only those I could trust not to completely my invention before I have! I would probably also tell people I need to help me make it work since I am not very scientifically minded or anything, so I would need help bringing anything decent to fruition!

All the best and here's to hoping your idea makes you rich and famous one day lol
Dranz