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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy

Steve Blank

Copyright gives you the right to prevent others from copying, distributing or making derivatives of your work. A contract is a binding legal agreement that is enforceable in a court of law. a Non Disclosure Agreement gives you certain rights to protection of your confidential information.) Copyright. In the U.S.

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The Ultimate Inventor’s Guide to Inventing Things

Up and Running

billion in total industry sales. So, if I were going to invent something, I’d probably start by creating an affordable jeweler’s workbench, not least because I’d be able to test it, and because I already know all the distribution channels I’d need to hit in order to sell it. The non-disclosure agreement (NDA).

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7 Reasons Smart Startups Establish 'Coopetition'

Startup Professionals Musings

Here are the other reasons to use this strategy: It reduces common costs and customer learning curves. Similar startups, with competing products, almost always have overlapping areas, which cost money to develop and annoy customers with a new learning curve. There's an opportunity for follow-on sales to existing customers.

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13 Helpful Organization and Productivity Apps For Small Businesses

crowdSPRING Blog

How to replicate their benefits for remote workers and distributed teams is a challenge many companies face. A nice selection of contracts for startups and small businesses (non-disclosure agreements, employment agreements, sales representative agreements, independent contractor agreements, and more) and also freelancers and others.

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Do It Right The First Time, Part II: Visit the Doctor or House Call?

Gust

For those of us who do it every day or every week, there is also a “ well-worn path ” involving reams of very familiar-looking documents that will take relatively little time (and therefore cost relatively little in legal fees) to prepare for a new startup. Advisory board agreements. Small-dollar-amount, routine commercial agreements.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Youll estimate time and cost better. But what I think was hard, and it was something he couldnt consider was that it would be harder to find a *maintaining* programmer, and how much it would cost to run the software, because of technical details he didnt understand. Thinking of your project in milestones makes all the difference.