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liquidcool on June 5, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Nobody's Going to Steal Your Idea

Yes, although small business might be an operative word. I'm thinking of Germany's Samwer brothers who have had great success in cloning successful US startups:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/ryanmac/2014/07/31/samwer-brothe...

Then again, they're not copying ideas as much as successful implementations.

reagency on June 5, 2015 [–]

And they aren't directly competing with the original, they are creating a local-friendly variant, which users appreciate.

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