Founder MindsetEmerging Pattern
Share ideas openly - execution speed beats idea secrecy
The risk of someone stealing your idea is minimal compared to the value of early feedback. If someone is more motivated by your idea than you are and builds it first, that's a signal you should have executed faster, not kept it secret longer.
When to use
Always - when validating ideas, seeking feedback, or building in public
Don't do this
Keeping ideas secret for fear of theft, missing valuable feedback and validation, then executing too slowly
1 Founder Who Did This
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NoteFormsby Julien Nahum
Shared ideas openly with many people for feedback, believed execution speed matters more than secrecy
Result:Got valuable early feedback while moving fast enough that competition didn't matter
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