Number 2 is a big time waster. Many inexperienced entrepreneurs are still really concerned about someone stealing their idea, and it’s frustrating to hear this. It tells me that they haven’t done their homework because if they’re reading the right things out there on the web (as they should be if they’re serious about being an entrepreneur), then they should have come across about 18 different articles by respected entrepreneurs that tell them not to worry about this.
What’s frustrating to me is that it’s hard to explain this and truly convince them of this if they haven’t heard it elsewhere, which I suppose means that I’m not currently that well-respected (and I don’t really deserve to be relative to many other entrepreneurs out there). Something that I need to work on over the coming years.