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Because of this I feel like I'm being deceived, I'm the designer/coder and he brought the idea. Problem is that he's so paranoid about his idea being stolen it's making me nervous about the project. Should I bail and cut my losses, or is this normal? We have contractual agreements but it doesn't seem to help the situation.

The paranoia of "my idea is being stolen" is the sign of a highly inexperienced person and also statistically speaking, the sign of someone who is unlikely to succeed. Your skills as a designer and implementer make you highly valuable to many non-technical founders, so you should consider yourself able to pick your partners, and not have to "settle." An idea is worth *nothing* without execution, so I'd suggest that you align yourself with a more experienced founder.

Happy to talk through this and more details in a call. I'd also caution you that a contract doesn't provide you full security against this person's deceitfulness or bad behavior.


Answered 10 years ago

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