UKNM: RE: Taking your baby to the boss

[cuppa]

Hi all


I wonder if anyone has first or third hand experience of something like

this.


You work for a company serving telecom operators. And wholly in your spare

time (really!) you develop a home page that you fondly imagine might become

a

�"big thing" sometime - but anyway it helps you do your day job a little

better.


It grows like topsy and becomes a resource for people who might have paid my

employers for this information. It starts getting quite a few visitors, all

from high profile companies my employers would like to do business with.

(Even

a top 20 listing on Yahoo! "3g UMTS" = key words)


I say to my boss -"... have look, what do think ?".

"Bloody good, let�s fold it in our (company) web site".

"S�cuse me. This is mine. And we can talk about how your company could take

an

interest in mine". :-)

A moment of silence.

Then "..lets talk about it tomorrow" - the chat never happens.

In fact the next day, my employer�s lawyers are crawling over my web site.

The weekend and today has come and gone. My boss has been silent.


Question: Should I be worried? Any advice welcomed. Interested in hearing of

anyone else that has effectively given their employers first refusal on a

dot.com idea/protoype. What happened next ?


Thanks

Steve


the3Gportal.com (my web site) and not my employers (ha!)



There is no proprietary info from my employers or gathered during my day job

on the site, btw.



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