It’s kind of like telling someone that you’re going to quit smoking, drinking, etc. The more people that know about it, the more likely you’ll follow through and do it.

I have an idea years ago, and now it has became a business plan, I shall share my plan instead of original idea right?

I’ve designed a pattern to extract a user’s preference from posts in my social networking site, then I shall share this to others. But, if an idea is not worth much, why companies such as facebook applying patents for design?

I not only told everyone that would listen about an idea I had over the summer. I blogged about, commented about, and eventually bumped into a fellow web programming who loved the idea and ran with it (Tyler Gillies).

For all the reasons above, and for the most important I highly suggest all would be entrepreneurs share their startup concept with whoever will listen.

Finding cofounders is a biggy, and because 99.9% of the effort will come in refining the concept into a product or service. The idea has value, but the implementation and design model you follow (customer feedback loop) is where the traction will come from.

At this point I know I have helped to construct a tool that I find fascinating and with great potential. But it’s ultimately users who will determine if the market is ready for social media driven two way search and advertising.