理念分享与地方文化
两周前，我与一位熟人分享了我认为“最有趣”的创业想法（一个我称之为“GroundFruit”的意见导向、低摩擦的协作平台）。没过几天，他就告诉了一个朋友，几天后又告诉了一位投资者——这一切都是在我不知情和未获允许的情况下进行的。我感到震惊，打算在我们约定的第二天见面时讨论这个问题，但他却失约了，之后搬到了科罗拉多州去“处理一些事情”。
这里的讽刺在于（如果我没猜错的话），他的目标受众将是我们这些创始人。这种情况我之前从未遇到过，让我开始思考地点和文化如何影响协作。在我生活过的大多数城市（旧金山、洛杉矶），每个人都在忙着打造下一个大事件。而这里（佛罗里达）的动态和文化则截然不同。
地点、当地人口结构和文化是否影响了你们的协作方式（以及是否进行协作）？执行力至关重要，想法的相似性也很常见，但有些概念在某个问题领域内代表了多年的“探索时间”。洞察力就像一把私钥：传递起来很简单，但推导却很困难。认为想法“无关紧要”的看法似乎有些轻率，实际上也并不完全正确。
我曾管理过大型创始人团队，因此有过很多对话，但我仍在思考自己对此的看法是否天真。如果你有机会投资于一位有着“无许可”模式、借用他人想法的创始人，你会选择投资吗？你会与他们合作吗？这几乎肯定会成为我拒绝合作的理由，但我很想听听大家的看法。
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Two weeks ago I shared my ‘most interesting’ startup idea (an opinionated, low-friction collaboration platform I call ‘GroundFruit’) with an acquaintance. Within days he'd told a friend, then a few days later an investor - without my permission or knowledge. I was shocked and intended to address it the following day when we were set to meet but he flaked and has since moved to Colorado to "work on some things."<p>The irony here (if it’s what I think) is that his target audience will be us, founders. This hasn’t happened to me before and it got me thinking about how location and culture affect collaboration. In most cities I've lived (SF, LA) everyone was already building The Next Big Thing. The dynamics and culture here (Florida) are different.<p>Have place, local demographics and culture affected how (and if) you collaborate? Execution is king and idea similarity is really common but some concepts represent years of ‘search time’ in a problem space. Insights can be like a private key: trivial to transmit but hard to derive. The belief ideas “don’t matter” seems a little glib and only mostly true.<p>I’ve run large founder groups so I’ve had plenty of conversations but I’m still wondering if my views on this are naive. if you had the chance to invest in a founder with a pattern of running, ‘permissionless’, with the ideas of others', would you? Would you work with them? It would almost certainly be a deal-breaker for me but I’d love to hear what people think.