Perspectives

Well, I will join them. I will tell them I will add value.

It seems like many business owners are afraid that a competitor or a new entrant will copy their idea and become successful. I can’t help but see the paradox here.

Your idea?

• If you are an innovator, you observed a market need. You applied your knowledge (that someone freely offered you) and you created a solution – USP
• Then you observed more and took more ideas from other sources and adapted them to work in your niche – Features
• Then, you took some more and did not even bother to change any of it and used it – Integration/Bells & whistles/Enhancements
• Then you worked with others who possess a USP in their niche to add value to yours – Partners
• Some more people saw something more than what you saw and joined you to help your cause – Employees
• You created Something – A company

And what do people like?  Your company.

As you can see, most of what most of us are doing is someone else’s idea. Your USP is probably yours (most often, even that is not true). And what is it? An observation. A thought. Did you get it because you are a genius? Is that observation such a big deal? E=MC²?

If someone is executing your idea better than you, join them. What are you doing all of this for anyway? To help make someone’s life better and happier isi’nt?

What did you lose that you cry about? What did you bring with you, which you think you have lost? What did you produce, which you think got destroyed? whatever you have, you received from here. – Bhagvad Gita.

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