Note to entrepreneurs: Your idea is not special

– Brad Feld is a managing director at the Boulder, Colorado-based venture capital firm Foundry Group. He also co-founded TechStars and writes the popular blog,Feld Thoughts. The views expressed are his own. –Every day I get numerous emails from software and Internet entrepreneurs describing their newest ideas.Often these entrepreneurs think their idea is brand new – that no one has ever thought of it before. Other times they ask me to sign a non-disclosure agreement to protect their idea. Occasionally the emails mysteriously allude to the idea without really saying what it is.These entrepreneurs think their idea is special and magic. And they...

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