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Protect Your Business Plan Like It’s Your Baby—Here’s How

Up and Running

We all want the best for our babies—and our business plans! Nearly all businesses, whether they are small or large, are comprised of intellectual property (IP) and trade secrets, which can serve as the foundation for commercial success. Examples of IP and trade secrets include but are not limited to: Business plans.

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For IP Security at Startups, "Later" Isn't Soon Enough

ReadWriteStart

Much farther down the list - if it's there at all - is the security plan the startup needs to protect its brilliant idea from theft. Don't share your business plan too freely, even with potential clients (as ReadWriteWeb contributor Steve Blank learned the hard way ). That needs to change. Don't leave your laptop at the café.

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The investment that didn’t happen

K9 Ventures

It was a team of two sharp Computer Science PhDs, they had core new technology in the form of the algorithms they ran in the back-end, and also core new technology when it came to the display of information. However, the IP climate remains unchanged, and it’s likely that other villains will continue to exploit similar situations.

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

The biggest risk in our business plan is that we are relying to some extent on time over money, because were self-funded. We know of no-one making a similar product to us, but there are businesses making other kinds of products that would naturally compete for the same money from the same customers, which makes us mutual threats.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

there are start ups who are legitimately using.net because they don’t need to look directly into the tcp/ip stack. Fun does not include ERP or accounting or any other algorithmically non interesting character shuffling or dynamically generated SQL queries, so that you can collect micropayments from already broke teens.

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