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Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup

mashable.com

Anyone who has sat stymied with their cursor blinking in a “username” field knows that coming up with a name is harder than you’d think. We talked to bloggers, social media gurus, linguists and naming experts (yes, they exist!) to get the scoop on finding a name that will work on the web. How Do I Start? Ask yourself: 2.

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy

Steve Blank

Or it can be your brand , logo or domain name. Contract, NDA. _. The test for non-obvious is: given the prior art at the time of the invention, would a typical engineer 1) identify the problem, and 2) solve it with the invention? You can protect business processes, know how, customer information, product road map. Inventions.

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The Valley Lacks Flexibility, Not Talent

ReadWriteStart

Let's face realities here: it's no doubt tempting and cool for many developers to work for Google, Yahoo, Microsoft, Facebook or Twitter to name but a few. QA can look at stuff built just hours before and give feedback by the time the engineers return to work. Outdated and Impersonal HR Practices.

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The cult of the NDA

www.frozennorth.org

AIM Screen Name: DFNfrozenNorth. The cult of the NDA. Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) were the order of the day. One startup even printed its NDA on the back of visitors badges, just like a software "shrink wrap" agreement: "By accepting this visitors badge, you agree to the terms of this Non-Disclosure Agreement."

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Series Seed Financing Documents

www.seriesseed.com

Ted - I think if you simply remove the spaces in the file names, that should solve the download problems, e.g. the term sheet doc should be renamed to "SeriesSeedTermSheet.doc" Same with the others. :). it is one of pdf search engines (for example [link]. Posted by: Peter Leahy | 03/02/2010 at 07:33 AM.

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How to Find Great Freelancers on Upwork (Formerly oDesk)

Up and Running

While quotes will maintain the use of the name oDesk, we will refer to the site as Upwork. Cale Dansbee, president and principal security engineer for Topstone, agrees. I tried to hire only Americans due to legality issues when I have a project that requires a NDA contract,” says Daniel Alarcon, a content writer for CallTools.

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Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder

www.metamorphblog.com

You need a Co-Founder, not an Engineering Bitch. Lots of business-y, idea-type people who say they’re looking for a co-founder are, in reality, looking for what is best described as an “engineering bitch.&# Experienced, talented software engineers have lots of options in life, and most of them involve getting paid.

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