convore.json/groups/entrepreneurship/going-public-during-the-build-phase-of-a-startup/messages.json

[{"user_id": 14277, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11234, "date_created": 1299477262.8345621, "message": "During Episode #3 of Kevin Rose's podcast - Foundation, the Founder of Second Life suggested the benefits of being public about what your building far outweighs any potential negatives.. thoughts ?", "group_id": 250, "id": 285807}, {"user_id": 1381, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11234, "date_created": 1299477926.717967, "message": "Absolutely agree. Unless you're in some highly patentable hard science, chances are that hundreds of people have your same idea, possibly with slightly different approaches. The benefits you can get in terms of feedback and mentorship during the build phase as invaluable. The chance someone you tell will believe in your idea and build it faster and better than you are just minuscule.", "group_id": 250, "id": 285835}, {"user_id": 6716, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11234, "date_created": 1299482442.2004609, "message": "To be clear, when you say \"going public,\" you mean opening your build phase to the public (as opposed to raising money through a sale of equity). If you mean the former, I agree with rk. If you're trying to raise capital, you may want to wait a bit.", "group_id": 250, "id": 285994}, {"user_id": 16271, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11234, "date_created": 1299559765.5916581, "message": "@ae Yeah I read the topic as referring to equity markets as well and my thought was, \"This is not 1999\"", "group_id": 250, "id": 293745}, {"user_id": 14277, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11234, "date_created": 1300254736.9554269, "message": "Thanks for the feedback guys.. you will be hearing all about it shortly. Hopefully attract some really smart developers to help me out.", "group_id": 250, "id": 363172}, {"user_id": 14277, "stars": [], "topic_id": 11234, "date_created": 1300254688.7764599, "message": "@ae - yes.. I was referring to making the project public, not going public. A little ways off that yet :P", "group_id": 250, "id": 363164}]