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Originally posted by Dopy
If you have good ideas or opinions keep them to yourself. The public talking days are over. Talk only to those you network or partner with, and even then limit what you say.
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Rubbish! I could give you the blueprint for my business model, or you give yours to me, and we could both screw up. The technical details of how a business operates are not what makes a business succeed or fail, but the unique ways in which those details are applied by different individuals.
We are not operating mom-and-pop stores on main street in some small town (although even in the bricks and mortar world many businesses operate professional associations for the exchange of ideas and information), so the chance is close to zero that I will ever be fighting over the same surfers as you. It makes no sense to spend a large part of our lives inventing the same wheel because of the misguided idea that we are competitors.
The other excuse people come up with for not posting potentially useful information, is their unwillingness to give away something they had to work to find out. That doesn't make sense either, because even if 500 people read what you hahahahaha and never contribute in return, so what? If someone's attempt to be of help encourages even 2 others to do the same, he gets twice as much information back as he has given away.