There’s a general school of thought among a number of new entrepreneurs that one should not share their business idea with anyone else. The reasoning behind this is that you need to protect your ideas and what you regard as your intellectual property. On the face of it all it sounds like logically sound argument. A business is after all quintessentially an idea that has been executed into a product which hopefully has a large enough market to sustain its expenses. New entrepreneurs network with the mentality that they will not share their ideas and try as extract as much value from their networking endeavour. This is where the logic behind the argument begins to fall away.
