Kick off an idea

[takkle]

Hello,

I have an idea for a product. I would be very grateful if someone could give me ideas on where to go from here. I have no technical background so all I have is an idea, which would make it easy for anyone with the skills to pinch, so to speak. I would be very happy to be involved and share profits (5 - 20 % of something valuable is much better than 100% of nothing) but would feel gutted if it was pinched from me outright.

What would you recommend? The product would need to be manufactured so it is beyond me.

Thanks

[Teresa2084]

Hi

It's good to take advice because I have come up with great ideas and put a couple into action and on both occasions faced one web master taking £6000 of my money and he used a 3rd party contractor to do my site, then he only done £100 worth of work and paid the 3rd part only £1000 and he then took the rest of my money and bolted with my site unfinished and then the 3rd party guy wanted me to pay for the rest of it to be completed even though I had already paid the initial person. The 3rd party guy then stole my site for a number of weeks until the police got involved and a solicitor and he returned it. The 2nd site I done was on a huge venture and unique, the web master who done it was so greedy when he realised its potential earnings that he stole money from the site and went out of his way to try and ruin it just because he wasnt allowed to steal my or copy my site at all. Needless to say one site has over 4000 registered users on it, and the newer one has over 1000 on it but ive disabled its payment functions and will have it rebuilt. Its very easy to get yourself into a mess when you come up with a great idea and someone else wants it. A prime example is company I worked for. They are new and he stole my copy and ideas for his brochures and his coming soon page although the sky look he added to the coming soon page was dreadful and def not my idea.
I have learnt the hard way and Im always getting investment offers for my ideas and to copy what already exists and I have learnt to say no and now started up my own little site so that I can run a proper business and help people on market-ur-biz.com and I have started to build this site myself and already I have had a great response from businesses in the last week. I guess there is a bigger need for my services than I initialy thought and as most companies are expensive, they dont take into consideration that small businesses just starting up just cant afford them. Large companies offering services to businesses don't give you that one to one service that many small companies need and don't have time to give much advice either.

Always make sure you get a contract first. Do not share your idea until you do a contract that states that the person (thier name) will not disclose your idea to any 3rd party without your written consent and must not use it for his own gain in any way shape or form on or off the internet unless with your written consent.And make them sign and date it and you sign and date it too. Give them a copy and keep one for yourself. If you go to a web master, be very careful and also make them sign a contract and some web masters will put your ideas into action and take a % of what your site earns in return for doing your site free. Do not under any circumstances let them start building your site without a full spec and contract and in that contract you must have a completion date on it.

I hope this helps

[SilkyP]

Please look at profitengine. It's a site that introduces entrepreneurs who need business funding to investors.. Before you dismiss the idea for fear of your plan being stolen, the site has gone to great lengths to keep your information secure and NO investor or business angel group can view it unless they have signed a non-disclosure agreement.

It's free for an entrepreneur to register their business. You are always in control of yuor business plan, the amount of investment on offer and what sort of working parternship you want to enter into. However, just like the Dragon's Den points out, you must be realistic about making it a decent proposition for an investor to consider.

Their confidence in your abilities is aslo very important and you will have to work quite hard to put together a real plan that is more than just a wooly idea. Don't give away all your ideas at once.

If you'd like to speak to a real person iId be happy to take your call during nromal office hours and talk you through it.

Pamela
01392 361500

[Teresa2084]

Hi Pamela

The site looks interesting and will go through it tonight indepth. Thankyou for pointing me to this site.