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Six Criteria for Outsourcing the Right Processes

Startup Professionals Musings

Near-shore and local outsourcing alternatives are manageable with contracts and non-disclosure agreements. Creative or operational. Creative products, like chip design programs, architectural rendering, or consumer games are not easily outsourced. Protect your intellectual property. Technology level.

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Six Key Factors in the Right Outsourcing Decision

Startup Professionals Musings

Near-shore and local outsourcing alternatives are manageable with contracts and non-disclosure agreements. Creative or operational. Creative products, like chip design programs, architectural rendering, or consumer games are not easily outsourced. Protect your intellectual property. Technology level.

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To Outsource or Not to Outsource Software

Startup Professionals Musings

Near-shore and local outsourcing alternatives are manageable with contracts and non-disclosure agreements. Creative or operational. Creative products, like chip design programs, architectural rendering, or consumer games are not easily outsourced. Protect your intellectual property. Technology level.

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Tips For Hiring An Independent Contractor

YoungUpstarts

Independent contractors can change the way your business operates. Many professionals have stepped out of the workforce to facilitate e-learning or hybrid school schedules until schools resume normal operations. This is especially important for creative services such as artwork or design.). by Lesley Pyle, MSc.,

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The Ultimate Inventor’s Guide to Inventing Things

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If you want to explain your idea to someone in-depth and are worried potential theft, you can get them to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA)—a legal document that states both parties intent to keep information confidential. Your price may affect business operations. See Also: 10 Tools to Design Your Best Product Yet.

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Startup IP tips before you launch

NZ Entrepreneur

Patents and designs – What should you consider? Public disclosure of an invention or use of an invention prior to properly setting up an intellectual property protection strategy can render any subsequent patent and design applications invalid. i) Disclosing your idea. ii) Using open source software.

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The Top 5 Intellectual Property Mistakes

Up and Running

If a work for hire agreement is absent, the contractor, not the business, owns the contracted work. For example, company X needs a new logo and finds a designer to create the logo. The designer creates the logo, gets paid for her work, and the business begins using the logo on their website. Everyone will sign an NDA.