Only when you're beyond the idea stage does poaching from similar companies become a problem.

而只有你在超越了现阶段的想法并需要考虑不会被类似公司借鉴也是一个问题。

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Now, we'll cover these concepts in greater detail later, but you should be getting the idea that I don't want you to just film dancers on stage and turn it in as your screen dance project.

现在，我们将在后面更详细地介绍这些概念。但是你应该知道，我不希望你只是拍摄在舞台上的舞者，然后把它当成你的银幕舞蹈项目来提交。

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The idea is at the patent application stage, and the patent onlycovers the method but not the communications technology.

这个思想还处在专利申请阶段，并且专利只包括这种方法，而不包括其中所使用的通讯技术。

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The idea for her stage name came from Queen's song "Radio Gaga."

VOA: special.2009.02.27

The Angels note that his company is in the idea stage.

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Only 15.81% are still at the idea stage right now.

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While the number of idea stage (8%) and development stage (82%) companies demonstrated a strong year over year increase, startups in the revenue stage (9%) were down several points from Q1 2012.

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