YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2016

Develop a patent strategy early on to evaluate whether the costs for protecting an innovation makes sense. A common dilemma facing early-stage companies is that their success depends on explaining their technology to investors, potential clients and partners. What should my IP strategy be?

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Intellectual Property NDA IP Early Stage 100

Up and Running

JULY 25, 2016

The forever-failing-upward “Big Head” had just opened his own incubator with some of the $20 million he received as severance from tech giant Hooli, and is eventually talked into partnering with fellow incubator Erlich Bachman, who brings little to the table beyond his desire to glom onto the success of others.

Silicon Valley 60

Silicon Valley Non-disclosure Agreement Intellectual Property NDA 60

YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Fortunately, a provisional patent costs much less and can be put into place quickly to keep your idea secure. Before you discuss your idea with someone, whether they are a manufacturer, a supplier, or a potential business partner, make sure you know who you’re dealing with. Be careful about who you share information with.

Intellectual Property 113

Intellectual Property Non-disclosure Agreement NDA Security 113

NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Having a business strategy that includes an IP strategy will help you make informed decisions, identify opportunities, reduce unforeseen costs and improve your negotiation positions while avoiding long-term negative consequences. There is nothing wrong with using unregistered trade marks to save costs during the early stages of a venture.

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IP Non-disclosure Agreement Intellectual Property New Zealand 62

www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Contribute to development of primary business plan, with input on focus, costing and approach (platform, build vs. buy, resourcing, hosting strategy, time & cost). Where necessary, produce cost-benefit and risk justifications for IT initiatives to win budgetary support from the board.

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Fractional CTO CTO Technical Review CTO Hire 40

YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Together, you can offer a much wider array of services and increase your territories significantly as compared to what you and your partner could have achieved independently. There is also a scope to offer value-added services to your customers or clients at nominal additional costs.

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NDA Vertical Partner Lead Generation 124

mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

You're going to spend many multiples of what the domain name would have cost you to create brand recognition. Mark Suster (GRP Partners VC) nails it in this (audio, summary blog post) clip I borrowed from a recent ThisWeekInVentureCapital (#twivc) episode. I'd be happy to sign an nda. But don't take my word for it.

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Naming Technical Review Social Media Startup 94

Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2013

Asking for an NDA. Having fights with partners in the first year. Cutting costs every day. Two of his 100 answers deal directly with how and how not to approach potential investors. The first answers the question “what is the sign of an amateur?” ” He says: . Worrying about dilution.

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NDA Dallas Dilution Revenue 70

www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

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: Ted Wang | 03/02/2010 at 06:29 AM. Posted by: Peter Leahy | 03/02/2010 at 07:33 AM.

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Finance Term Sheet Vesting LLC 40

David Teten

AUGUST 7, 2019

However, Abe Othman, Partner at Indicator Fund and Head of Data Science at AngelList, observes, “Those companies don’t have a “margin of safety” though, in the traditional Seth Klarman sense of the word. Running your own analytics and sourcing process has real financial costs. LTV / CAC, revenue growth, etc.)

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Venture Capital Valuation Stock NDA 60

SoCal CTO

MARCH 4, 2010

20 Required NDA to continue – a nonstarter 50 Couldn’t sell him 15 Couldn’t explain why they wanted him involved In our conversation together, David and I spent a fair bit of time discussing the fact that a lot of people really didn’t know what he could do for them. important planning meetings or partner meetings).

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Technical Review Fractional CTO Technology CTO Hire 170

Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

And when I present it to them in terms of a cost analysis, [00:05:00] in terms of what you would. But knowing how to outsource that, how to partner with the right firm, how to interview those people how to present to them the right information so they can set up the right creative and run the right traffic is really complicated.

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Channel Acquisition Framework B2B 65

www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Vendor long-list - build a “long-list&# of possible software vendors and NDA them all, but don‚Äôt rely on it (more on this later). How much will this cost? But producing a professional and slick product costs money. It is often said that bootstrapping is cheap. Our team is 5 engineers, 2 QA and a project manager.

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Bootstrapping Offshore Startup EC2 41

grasshopperherder.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

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. As always, be wise in choosing your business partners. [.]

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Cofounder NDA Founder Sweat Equity 47

www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Thus, the opportunity cost of joining your half-baked venture is dramatically lower than it is for legit professionals. Outcome: last night a Biz Dev guy from Disney/ABC sent me an email asking about partnering with some of their online properties. Reminder: we launched on just $4k. In case you missed it earlier: PITCH PITCH PITCH.

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Founder Startup Cofounder Vesting 51

ConversionXL

AUGUST 7, 2019

Partner with industry experts to co-create content. But, of course, there’s a limitation to these collaborations: The targeted influencers have to be your clients—for long enough to have gotten great value from your product and liberated from a self-imposed NDA that keeps them from sharing their story. Video content.

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B2B Marketing Social Media B2C 110

Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

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. Also all the big anchor companies that a startup might want to partner with at that time (eBay, Google, Oracle, Yahoo!, link] leehower.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

What is the best advice you can give for finding a business partner? Don’t quickly choose any business partner. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost. Should I require and NDA? Especially if you need to quickly choose someone.

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Technical Review Startup Cofounder Software Review 44

This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

3) It gives away for free most of the value that it's competitors, because of their high cost structures, can't afford to. Craigslist, on the other hand, has about 30 employees and is doing about the same amount in revenue--meaning that most of the stuff you can do on Craigslist won't cost you anything.

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NDA API Community Cloud 107

Kodorra

AUGUST 23, 2018

Oh and by the way, typically angel investors don’t sign NDA (non-disclosure agreement), so they are most probably losing out on the cash too. Mistake – Choosing the Wrong Partner or Co-Founder. Your partner is most probably your good-old friend that you feel comfortable hanging out with. Let me guess.

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Non-disclosure Agreement Entrepreneur Netherlands NDA 49