NZ Entrepreneur

MAY 28, 2020

Non-disclosure agreements, or NDA’s, are vital when you’re disclosing new ideas or information to people outside your business. Without a written agreement, you may find yourself in a tricky ‘we said, they said’ situation with obligations that go way beyond those of the typical NDA.

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www.readwriteweb.com

MAY 10, 2010

But most investors agree : they do not want to sign an NDA. While non-disclosure agreements are designed to protect your ideas, asking potential investors to sign an NDA is generally seen as unnecessary and unwise. Most VCs point to the following reasons for avoiding NDAs: Sponsor. Good ideas are dime-a-dozen.

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Up and Running

APRIL 23, 2012

Every investor is well aware of early stage investing risks, and all investors know there is no success guarantee with any company. You must sign an NDA, too many of my ideas have been stolen”. Don’t say or do any of the following, and you’ll have a leg up on the competition for those investment dollars.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 7, 2016

Most early-stage companies have little registered intellectual property, such as patents. A common dilemma facing early-stage companies is that their success depends on explaining their technology to investors, potential clients and partners. Does my company own its intellectual property?

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onstartups.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Startup Reality Distortion #3: The Fallacy Of the Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA). In my role as angel investor and informal startup advisor, the issue of NDAs (non-disclosure agreements) comes up about once or twice a month. . It is likely that a lot has been written regarding NDAs from an investor’s/VC’s perspective.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

To learn some common legal pitfalls we’d all be better off avoiding, we asked nine founders from the Young Entrepreneur Council (YEC) what unexpected things they found themselves needing lawyers for in the early stages of their startups. Here’s what they had to say: 1. Immigration. When it comes to the U.S. Term Sheets.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 5, 2019

There is nothing wrong with using unregistered trade marks to save costs during the early stages of a venture. Otherwise, a company should never publicly disclose their invention to anyone without a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) until a decision is made to patent the technology and file an initial patent application.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 29, 2018

The book is also full of very practical early-stage marketing advice so you can break through the noise. Step Three: You need to think big or you will quickly fall into the pattern of being a first-stage entrepreneur (I describe the stages of entrepreneurship in this Lucky7 post ). We are glad we did. Yes, it is true?

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

A note about NDAs: 1) almost no experienced entrepreneurs/VCs will sign them (in fact, you asking them too is widely considered a sign of inexperience), 2) It’s not clear they have any real value – are you really going to spend years suing someone who signed an NDA? Have any candidate sign an NDA. ” chris.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

I don’t want to share my idea because someone might steal it – the benefit of sharing is greater than detriment- investors won’t sign an NDA. Listening to customers is the best thing you can do in the early stages of your venture. Choose a niche and own it. They can probably help.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 4, 2010

I’ve worked with 30+ early-stage companies in all sorts of capacities (and spoken to many, many more), so I thought it might be worthwhile trying to classify the various ways that I’ve engaged in different technology roles in startups.

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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). Sun Microsystems has a program called Startup Essentials [link] thats designed specifically to help early stage startups get into some great equipment, free software and other great stuff too.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Java is a great language for enterprises and is commonly used by many big dotcoms, banks and airlines, but its relatively slow development pace and higher barrier to entry make it inappropriate for most early-stage businesses. PHP is a widely-used Open Source web scripting language.

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www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

They’ll go to hell and back for you if you make them feel like an integral piece of the product’s evolution… think of them as wannabe entrepreneurs that live vicariously through your ballsy decision to take that big leap - Nobody wants to steal your idea, so don’t bother with an NDA for pitching.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Should I require and NDA? When it comes to early stage investing – it’s all gut. Does it make sense to spend this time speaking about your early stage start-up when your product has not even entered Alpha testing? I have the vision, model and the core elements of the ideas established. Then launch.

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onstartups.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

” Or, “We’d need you to sign an NDA or confidentiality agreement before we can reveal our plans.” Lots of startups in the early stages face this identity crisis and don’t really know what they want to do just yet. You should talk to this guy, he seems to share some of your thoughts: [link] ;).

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The market price is less than the inconvenience of signing an NDA. There is nothing more valuable,in the early stages of a startup, than smart users. If you go to VC firms with abrilliant idea that youll tell them about if they sign a nondisclosureagreement, most will tell you to get lost.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

simply arent crucial to success or failure, and for an early stage startup that means they were wastes of time — you could have done 10x more with that same amount of time and resources." — Jonathan Wegener , Founder, Timehop and ExitStrategy. Most features/options/buttons/settings/etc. Guarding The "Big Idea".

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