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

Steve Blank

Contract, NDA. _. Each patent filing will cost your company $10-30k and take 1-4 years. Red flags: Start of sales effort, Price list, price quotation, Trade show demonstration, Any demonstration not under NDA. . _. software, songs, movies, web site content. _. Trade Secrets. _. Secrets with economic value. the Coke recipe). _.