Borrowing strategies may not be considered a crime. You may do it to apply to your own business especially if you are a new businessman. It might be called a rip, pivot, and jam method. You’re simply adopting business ideas from one business and creating a business venture on your own. doing this may give you a hint and may create your own and reject what you borrowed or patterned. you may replace that idea with your own as soon as you already have ample experience. It is better to borrow or pattern business ideas like selling retail only or wholesale only and after your observations, you may stick to the two methods.