Why Someone Stealing your Startup Idea is a Good Thing

Chris Herd
4 min readSep 18, 2019

Any founder worth their salt — who has grown their company to any significant scale and experienced any semblance of success — will tell you that one of the leading indicators that their startup has got any chance of success was the day they realized they had copycats.

Welcome them like a sibling replicating your style. They might resemble you but they will never be you.

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Chris Herd

CEO / Founder / Coach @FirstbaseHQ Empowering people to work in their lives not live at work ✌️✌