My previous boss had a idea of a whole new concept, an app/website including both services, physical products. He had a certain niche and nobody had thought of anything close to this. He programmed most on his own, but the last few details were out of his competence so he had to hire a programmer from India, via a serious company to write/code the last couple of functions. It cost him like 75 000 euro, but in the end he knew it would be worth it. He had planed on releasing it in 5-6 months, but after about 2 months somebody out of nowhere, started up a new company, that hade copied his concept. Everything was almost identical, except some small interface details. How do someone protect , oneself against something like this?

Also I don’t know anything at all on how to get from idea to reality? How do one know what step to take next? My old boss was like “piece of cake”, “you really only need like 5000 euro to invest to make a company you can live of in about a years time”. I asked and asked but didn’t get one usable answer. He had like 20 something companies and really didn’t need to work at all. For him it was just for fun. When his concept got stolen as mentioned above he was mad about 8 months, then he was like “you win some, you lose some”.