Given the world population is fast closing on 7 billion, the chances of your idea being unique, while not being zero, are pretty close to it. I would not lose sleep trying to protect my idea. What has value is not the idea, it is the execution. MPesa were not the first to have the mobile money idea. Neither did Facebook have the idea for social networking first. Nor did google build the first search engine. Nor did Tesla build the first electric car. And yet they are eating everybody's lunch today. Put your effort more in execution and improvement. If you do it right success will be inevitable On Sun, Jun 1, 2014 at 1:55 PM, James Kagwe via kictanet < kictanet@lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:

I hope this email finds you well. The subject has been bothering me of late. Given our affinity to copy and implement ideas how are tech-prenurs in Kenya protecting ideas during development to avoid copying and sometimes launching before the real innovator does.

How could someone protect his idea especially after sharing it with contracted developers.

regards, James

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