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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. You’ll gauge people’s excitement level for the product and for various features. He left out capital sources, but it's still a pretty succinct list of the types of people / communication you should be having early stage. What is Stealth? " Ummm.

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. You’ll gauge people’s excitement level for the product and for various features. He left out capital sources, but it's still a pretty succinct list of the types of people / communication you should be having early stage. What is Stealth? " Ummm.

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5 Factors That Set Your Best Startup Funding Strategy

Startup Professionals Musings

Crowdfunding, on the other hand, opens the investment door online to almost anyone who is willing to bet on a new product or service with an investment, typically for a chance to be first in line for the offering, and willing to forgo any equity or management position in the company. Business-to-business products need professional investors.

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Nuts & Bolts of Intellectual Property for New Startups

Gust

So you’ve chosen a name for your startup, product, or both. Most of our early-stage startup clients fit this description. Trademarks , which we touched on last week, are brand and product names, graphic logos, slogans, taglines, and other indicators of origin of the goods or services in question.

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6 Ways To Fund Your Invention

YoungUpstarts

Moving from idea to marketable product can be challenging. In order to get your invention and business off the ground, you will need to invest time and money on protecting your intellectual property , development, production and marketing. by Christopher Heer , owner and founder of Heer Law. Using personal resources.

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9 Unexpected Ways a Lawyer Can Help Your Startup

Up and Running

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. Mutual Non-Disclosure Agreements. Immigration. Term Sheets.

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Create your IP strategy early to avoid common pitfalls

NZ Entrepreneur

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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