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The cult of the NDA

www.frozennorth.org

Sunday - September 28, 2003 at 03:37 AM in. The cult of the NDA. Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) were the order of the day. One startup even printed its NDA on the back of visitors badges, just like a software "shrink wrap" agreement: "By accepting this visitors badge, you agree to the terms of this Non-Disclosure Agreement."

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

Vendor long-list - build a “long-list&# of possible software vendors and NDA them all, but don‚Äôt rely on it (more on this later). Our team is 5 engineers, 2 QA and a project manager. Request of Information - Write and run an RFI process to sift your long-list of vendors down to a short-list of between 4 - 10 vendors.

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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

Ruby was considered a dead language to all but some system administrators when it was revived in 2003 by 37signals to develop their award-winning productivity startup Basecamp, and then taken on to power Twitter. Ruby on Rails is a combination of framework and language, with Ruby being the language and Rails being the framework.

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Urbanization of Startups ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

And going even further back there have been a few random ones have been built before like Salesforce.com and e-tailer RedEnvelope (IPO’d in 2003 though now defunct as a company).