Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2016

Don’t count on contracts and non-disclosure agreements to save you. Leading edge technology software and manufacturing require constant course corrections and iterative restarts. Customer-facing services, like call centers, should rarely be outsourced. Don’t let leading edge become bleeding edge. Marty Zwilling.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2015

If you are approaching a recognized venture capital group, or even an accredited angel investor, a non-disclosure agreement is counter-productive. In today’s world of rapid innovation and new technologies, any individual or company should be hesitant to sign an agreement that limits their activities for 10 years or more.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

All this was done without damaging anyone’s credibility, or stealing customers. It’s very unusual for two competitors to have exactly the same strengths – in development, marketing, distribution, or customer support. Ability to up-sell customers with related products. Affiliate marketing and link exchange agreements.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 25, 2021

Ask some potential customers to see if there is real interest, and start thinking about price versus cost. Look hard at the technology for feasibility and risk. Limit your disclosures to people you trust, and learn the use of non-disclosure agreements (NDA). Keep thieves away (protect it).

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 4, 2010

Near-shore and local outsourcing alternatives are manageable with contracts and non-disclosure agreements. Technology level. If you expect your solution to incorporate the absolute latest in software technologies, scalable to millions of users, with multi-system failover and recovery, don’t count on out-sourcing.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2009

The assets you can protect may include your “core technology&# like source code, hardware designs, architectures, processes, formulas. You can protect business processes, know how, customer information, product road map. non-public technology. customer lists, formula. _. technology, business information. _.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Customer Development We were starting Epiphany, my last company. I was out and about in Silicon Valley doing what I would now call Customer Discovery trying to understand how marketing departments in large corporations worked. He continued: “I’d like to convince my boss so our company can be your first customer.”

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Gust

DECEMBER 22, 2011

It’s possible to have a company with literally millions of customers (users) that employs only a handful of people, working in a small rented office, with hardware and software costing in the tens of thousands rather than millions of dollars. This is often referred to in the creative community as a “ work-for-hire agreement.”.

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YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

Think about it – when is the last time a business didn’t benefit from having smart employees or strong customer relationships? Whether the information is trade secrets, business know-how, financial data, product plans, customer acquisition strategies, the information a business possesses is what makes it valuable and unique.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2014

All this was done without damaging anyone’s credibility, or stealing customers. It’s very unusual for two competitors to have exactly the same strengths – in development, marketing, distribution, or customer support. Ability to up-sell customers with related products. Affiliate marketing and link exchange agreements.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

AUGUST 8, 2019

However, if anything, security requirements have only gotten more and more complex as technology has developed. On top of that, having staff at a high level sign non-disclosure agreements, no matter how much you trust them, can allow you to sue them for financial liability should they leak their sources. Stay Ahead .

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 22, 2014

Ask some potential customers to see if there is real interest, and start thinking about price versus cost. Look hard at the technology for feasibility and risk. Limit your disclosures to people you trust, and learn the use of non-disclosure agreements (NDA). Keep thieves away (protect it).

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 17, 2017

Ask some potential customers to see if there is real interest, and start thinking about price versus cost. Look hard at the technology for feasibility and risk. Limit your disclosures to people you trust, and learn the use of non-disclosure agreements (NDA). Keep thieves away (protect it).

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 29, 2015

Ask some potential customers to see if there is real interest, and start thinking about price versus cost. Look hard at the technology for feasibility and risk. Limit your disclosures to people you trust, and learn the use of non-disclosure agreements (NDA). Keep thieves away (protect it).

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 10, 2016

Industry-disrupting technology is a common way entrepreneurs build a company. You can also protect your technology abroad through foreign patents in any countries where you want the same exclusive patent rights. Any patented technology must be novel, useful, and nonobvious. Not all technology is patentable, of course.

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The Startup Magazine

JUNE 25, 2020

You can easily customize your offer letter template for a job application using our sample offer letter format. Non-Disclosure Template. You can download the non-disclosure agreement form to stay on the safe side. You can also customize the form, and have it printed if needed. Offer Letter Template.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). I'd approached Advanced Millennium Technologies, to develop our ERP software, last September. We make sure they're damn good and have experience not only as developers, but also dealing with customers. check them out at: www.amt.in

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

This post originally appeared on the American Express OPEN Forum , where Mashable regularly contributes articles about leveraging social media and technology in small business. So, you’re a small or medium-sized business, and you want to build a Facebook, mobile or web app. it looks like it's included in all of "their" app kits.

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crowdSPRING Blog

JANUARY 13, 2016

With numerous platforms such as LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and more, it’s a hassle to continuously update content and monitor customers and competitors. Managing Customer Service – ZENDESK. Successful entrepreneurs and business owners know that customer service is incredibly important to their business.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Prior to starting GoDaddy, Parsons founded another company called Parsons Technology. Here are a few ways you can do this: Create a prototype of your product that meets your customers’ biggest pain point and get user feedback (including seeing if they’ll pay for it) in order to validate the product even before launching it.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

And if you need even more privacy , you’ll be able to post any writing project as a Pro project, which gives you full control over users, non disclosure agreements, and more. We pay writers 100% of the project awards (we charge buyers a 15% fee based on the total awards offered in their projects).

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Austin Startup

MAY 21, 2017

Today I had the honor of congratulating the 2017 graduating class of the UT Austin Masters in Science and Technology Commercialization. I wish I could say that invented a new technology or cured some disease, But it was nothing that clever. So he introduced me to the customer, I wrote the script, and they bought me a pizza.

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www.frozennorth.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

The Customer Service Survey. Gourmet Customer Service. Every one of these companies believed they had a unique idea, either a piece of technology, a business model, or a way of building a product. Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) were the order of the day. "The more I find out, the less I know.". Categories.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Also important: Only go for providers who have great reviews from many past customers. The idea is that this allows you to get much more clear about what you want to achieve, whats possible with current technology, what other people are doing, how long it might take and how much it is likely to cost. Dont aim for the lowest bid.

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