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Not to underestimate the power of evil, but ideas are cheap and execution matters. One never reproduces an idea as-is, if only because your service should be multitenant. On the other hand, going to BigCo’s legal department to beg for a spin off of an activity you’ve seen, is as risky as the next 10 stages of your startup.

Especially since the first stage of your startup is to test the waters with an MVP, which leads to a quasi-immediate pivot from the initial idea. Example:

> web application which would combine a project manager, contact manager, and to-do list

became Blogger and was sold to Google in 2003 (by Jack Dorsey).



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