Parentheses will probably be difficult for you, but you should continue with your brave efforts to learn to program.
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For me it means:
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What is the purpose of "protecting it"?
Isn't "protecting it" at cross purposes to making it go viral?
The best protection is first-mover advantage. Take more market share than any competitor can easily gain back, and do it quickly, preemptively. Attach your brand to it somehow; that way your brand becomes famous and the kudos will attach to you.
People worry a lot about protecting their precious ideas when they should be implementing them to see if it's what the market really wants. Good ideas are a dime a dozen. Good implementers are not.
Best of luck, I hope what you've got is transformative.
Over the short term, Google will remain profitable, but whether it can build a bridge to a future of driverless cars, etc., is less certain.
$0.02
Major search company.
Be ready to do your pitch with or without graphics, with or without white board,, with or without aids of any kind.
If you were pitching to Steve Jobs, rest assured that after your fourth slide, or 30 seconds of video, he would interrupt to say you're full of shit. Chances are, you won't encounter that kind of abruptness. Just saying, be ready for anything.
Most investors are pragmatists. They will want to know HOW you know that customers will come; they'll want to know what your market research consists of; you'll need to provide some kind of market "proof." Do a mock preso with somebody interrupting all the time to say "That's pie in the sky. Prove to me it's not pie in the sky."
How many customers do you need to make this thing fly? How soon? What's the timmetable? Where will those customers come from? How many will come from each channel? How do you KNOW they'll come? What market testing have YOU done already? Those are the types of questions to expect. (Among others, of course.)
If you don't have those kinds of answers, be ready to tell how you'll get them. What are your income milestones? How can you prove you'll hit them? What happens if you don't? How soon will you be able to prove you're on track? What form does the proof take?
Angels see and hear good ideas all the time. What they want to know is why you're the one to do this and how you know it will work; why this is the right time; why no one else can execute on this; why it will succeed if YOU do it.
Best of luck to you. Hope this helps.
I have an advanced degree in microbiology from UC Davis and it is my opinion that the Ebola "scare factor" is way overblown. People simply need to read the facts about the disease and how it spreads. It doesn't spread via aerosols (sneezes)... nor by magic.
What the downstream effects would be and how quickly they would happen, I don't think is easy to answer.
So it's really a question, first, of whether you intend to stay with QWERTY. If so, I recommend http://www.keybr.com
Plagiarism, in a narrow legal sense, is mostly a matter of copyright violation. But again, I sense that your question is larger than that. Is it?
Perhaps you can cite a well-known example in order to make the discussion more concrete?
Not trying to downplay the legitimacy of your question at all. I think it needs to be discussed.
Google "hidden bias" quiz inurl:ycombinator
It is not destined to do well, IMHO. I tried giving away access codes to my 250,000 Twitter followers and only two people wanted one.
The idea that authors have time to write AND read and comment on other people's work is flawed. Many writers struggle to find time just to write, never mind comment on other people's work.
Plus, did Amazon even consider whether the world needs another (not better, just different) Wattpad?
Rapid fractal compression remains hard. Some of Barnsley's techniques should be off patent now, or soon.
Sometimes Flash will complain, but most of the time FF just runs out of memory and starts giving the spinning cursor. Once in a while it will crash without bringing up the crash reporter window. It'll just go down silently.