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How To Find A Technical Cofounder For Your Online Business Idea

www.virtuosimedia.com

Programming Tutorials. Programming Tools. Custom Programming. Because I’m also a self-taught programmer, I can tell you that you probably don’t want to invest the time teaching yourself how to program. Research the cost of advertising your product. Sign that person to an NDA if necessary.

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Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup

mashable.com

Page360 awesome post W3 Consulting Note: you can have multiple domain names: one for conventional (and one for emotional) branding purposes, several for SEO/SEM purposes, and several for Web analytics (where are my *offline* advertising dollars breeding positive ROI?). I'd be happy to sign an nda. My company name is forever!

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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret

cdixon.org

A note about NDAs: 1) almost no experienced entrepreneurs/VCs will sign them (in fact, you asking them too is widely considered a sign of inexperience), 2) It’s not clear they have any real value – are you really going to spend years suing someone who signed an NDA? Have any candidate sign an NDA.

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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’t rely on it (more on this later). No salaries, at first, but we did a lot ourselves and then did a lot as trade and/or on an advertising basis.

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6 critical tips for launching a startup while holding a day job | VentureBeat

venturebeat.com

Assume every laptop has a secret program that records all keystrokes, mouse clicks, screen shots, web sites and emails you read or write. I was also searching for a new job and next week I will start work for a new employer and in their NDA I have mentioned the name of my incorporated company as "prior invention/copyright work".

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

The market price is less than the inconvenience of signing an NDA. Microsofts originalplan was to make money selling programming languages, of all things.Their current business model didnt occur to them until IBM droppedit in their lap five years later. As if to emphasize the point, Google never did any advertising.

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B2B Influencer Marketing: 4 Strategies that Move the Needle

ConversionXL

Yet, according to another study , only 11% of B2B companies have ongoing influencer marketing programs, compared to 48% of B2C brands. Here are options to turn happy clients into vocal supporters: Special community programs. Existing award programs highlight best practices. Professional communities on social media are strong.

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