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The Ultimate Inventor’s Guide to Inventing Things

Up and Running

In 2011, it accounted for approximately $2.3 If you want to explain your idea to someone in-depth and are worried potential theft, you can get them to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA)—a legal document that states both parties intent to keep information confidential. The non-disclosure agreement (NDA).

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How To Find A Technical Cofounder For Your Online Business Idea

www.virtuosimedia.com

Benjamin Kuker May 17, 2011 Tweet I have a feeling I might step on a few toes with this article, but finding a technical cofounder for an online business idea is a topic that I’ve seen come up often across a number of business community websites. Research the cost of advertising your product. Business Tools.

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Series Seed Financing Documents

www.seriesseed.com

All of those cost us as much if not more in legal time than the seed round. I see there is no support for the assertions that the benfits of using standardized documents outweights the costs of customizing and negotiating important issues. Posted by: Quyen Kiet | 01/17/2011 at 05:49 PM. I think opinions differ on this.

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Things to Avoid When Recruiting Co-founders

grasshopperherder.com

Don’t Even Ask for an NDA This just makes me laugh. UPDATE: It is of course perfectly reasonable to ask for an NDA before giving away the super secret sauce. As a corollary, cold call a VC and try and get them to sign an NDA before your first meeting. It means there actually might be a market for your idea.

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Urbanization of Startups ? AGILEVC

Agile VC

The kinds of places where you have to sign an NDA when you walk in the lobby… When I lived and worked in the bay area (2000-2005) virtually all the startups were down on the peninsula somewhere. © 2011 GenuineVC - All rights reserved. The pendulum swings to and fro. link] leehower. Great points. Previous Entries.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost. Should I require and NDA? I have a proposal written up including full cost and revenue projections. There is opportunity cost that should always be considered. Then launch. Please, where do i start?

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Stealth Mode, Schmealth Mode: The Real Reasons Why Startups Don't Talk

onstartups.com

” Or, “We’d need you to sign an NDA or confidentiality agreement before we can reveal our plans.” and this is the cost of which i speak. © 2011 OnStartups.com. ” Or, “We’d tell you what we were up to, but then we’d have to kill you.” Regards, Bandi. hehe I found one!

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