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AskPat 2.0: A Weekly Coaching Call on Online Business, Blogging, Marketing, and Lifestyle Design

What If A Big Company Takes My Idea?

AskPat 2.0: A Weekly Coaching Call on Online Business, Blogging, Marketing, and Lifestyle Design

Pat Flynn

Business Advice, Marketing, Podcasting, Getting Started, Business Strategy, Business, Small Business, Passive Income, Online Entrepreneurship

4.9638 Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2015

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

Today’s question comes from Brooke, who has an idea to get started. She knows it will be successful, but is worried that a large company will take her idea and out-compete her, and she would like to know my thoughts on this. I’ve had some experience with this over at my niche site, Green Exam Academy (http://www.greenexamacademy.com/). Share your thoughts with #AskPat252. Do you have a question about getting started? Record it at http://www.askpat.com/. Thanks to Zip Recruiter for sponsoring today's episode. Go to http://www.ziprecruiter.com/pat to get started posting jobs today. See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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0:00.0

What's up, Ask Pat.

0:05.1

Askpat.com.

0:10.8

What's up, everybody?

0:11.8

Pat Flynn here and welcome to episode 252 of Ask Pat.

0:15.0

Thank you so much for joining me today.

0:16.7

I hope you're having an awesome day and I hope I can help make it even better.

0:20.5

And to do that and to help, we have a great question today from Brooke.

0:23.9

But before we get to that, I do want to thank today sponsor.

0:26.7

I don't know why I said that.

0:29.3

A very popular sponsor on the show, actually.

0:31.3

I keep getting emails about how great this services.

0:33.4

This is zipRecruiter.com. This is a company that you could use that is very cool and it makes it

0:38.4

very efficient to hire new people for your business. So whether you are a solo entrepreneur and you're

0:44.6

looking to expand your team or you have 50 people or 100 people in your business and you're looking

0:48.5

to add more specialized team members, instead of going to all the different recruiting sites out there,

0:53.1

you can go to ZipRecruiter.com and to your description in which you're looking for one time, and with a

0:58.1

click of a button, it gets sent out to 50 plus job sites, and they screen and find the best

1:02.4

candidates for you, again, all for free, which is super cool for you. So ZipRecruiter.com

1:08.7

slash Pat is where you can go to make that happen. Again, that's ZipRecruiter.com slash Pat is where you can go to make that happen. Again, it's zip

1:12.1

recruiter.com slash Pat. Cool. Now let's get to today's question from Brooke.

1:18.6

Hi, Pat. My name is Brooke. I've got a brilliant idea for a website that I am 100% positive.

1:24.9

I could turn into a big financial success.

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