www.frozennorth.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

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." Why the cult of the NDA? Categories.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 18, 2011

QA can look at stuff built just hours before and give feedback by the time the engineers return to work. The amount of blog posts by disgruntled engineers of startups ranting about the period of merging is legion. Secondly, buying a startup for a lot of money gives a message to the engineers in-house that they are missing out.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Not so much that it slows you down, but enough so that you smoothly run and grow the engine. It will be a long time before you have in-house counsel, and you can’t afford an outside law firm for every NDA to sign. “Time to get organized” - Your CFO should take a leading role in bringing operational excellence into your company.

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www.humbledmba.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

I hired a lawyer, and he gave us an NDA template and told us that anyone that had knowledge of our proprietary data had to sign it. As I reached out to successful investors and entrepreneurs, I made each of them signed my nifty NDA. And while I knew she wouldnt steal it, I needed to be very careful. So I should be very secretive.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 9, 2013

Not so much that it slows you down, but enough so that you smoothly run and grow the engine. It will be a long time before you have in-house counsel, and you can’t afford an outside law firm for every NDA to sign. “Time to get organized” - Your CFO should take a leading role in bringing operational excellence into your company.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Start-ups often hire at one extreme -- closer to a Lead Developer or VP of Engineering -- whereas corporates may focus on their CIO, which is potentially quite a different role. Hold responsibility for IT governance of platform & services, including telecommunications, networks, infrastructure, engineering, media, and architecture.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Look at online advertising rates for your potential product keywords, industry publications ad rates, search engine optimization fees, and any other advertising avenues you’d like to pursue. Sign that person to an NDA if necessary. Research the cost of advertising your product. If it's not financially viable, abandon it.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 7, 2011

Not so much that it slows you down, but enough so that you smoothly run and grow the engine. It will be a long time before you have in-house counsel, and you can’t afford an outside law firm for every NDA to sign. “Time to get organized” - Your CFO should take a leading role in bringing operational excellence into your company.

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

Johnson also says that search engine issues have affected the style of names. Amidst all the search engine and domain name drama, consider that names are memorable when they sound good. I'd be happy to sign an nda. He says that intentional Web 2.0 A keyword is not a brand, where there’s emotional connection with the words.”

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www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

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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Feld Thoughts

MAY 4, 2015

If she was build on all human knowledge based on what a search engine knows, Ava would know better than to walk out in the woods in high heels. He expresses intellectual dominance from the very first instant you meet him and reinforces it aggressively with the NDA signing. This led us right back to BSG, Cylons, and gender.

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Up and Running

MAY 18, 2015

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. ’ This helps weed out the bots and auto-responders that will quickly overwhelm your inbox.

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www.seriesseed.com

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Standard 1-way/bi-lateral NDA's, standard templates for an employee manual, employee contract/agreements, IP ownership release to company are on my wish-list too. it is one of pdf search engines (for example [link]. Technical issues are fixed for Firefox users (thanks Rob for the comment). Posted by: twang | 03/02/2010 at 10:47 AM.

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Kodorra

AUGUST 23, 2018

Oh and by the way, typically angel investors don’t sign NDA (non-disclosure agreement), so they are most probably losing out on the cash too. They are missing out on the valuable feedback and advice people could offer for free that could help better shape their ideas. Mistake – Believing You Don’t Have Any Competitors.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 22, 2015

In one day on-site I was a part of his exec kick-off meeting, attended a company product strategy meeting, and interviewed two executives, two engineers, and individuals from their sales and marketing team. You should probably sign an NDA. I took notes, asked questions, and tried to fit in. Confidentiality is incredibly important.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

The kinds of places where you have to sign an NDA when you walk in the lobby… When I lived and worked in the bay area (2000-2005) virtually all the startups were down on the peninsula somewhere.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Such is its impressiveness, however, that Google released Django as the first supported language on their App Engine cloud computing platform, and a number of Rails developers are starting to transition over.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The market price is less than the inconvenience of signing an NDA. You make elaborate plans for a product, hire a team of engineers to develop it (people who do this tend to use the term "engineer" for hackers), and then find after a year that youve spent two milliondollars to develop something no one wants.

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BeyondVC

MARCH 24, 2006

In addition, he felt pretty uncomfortable showing up to Google and having to sign an NDA on the spot, and then going into a meeting where people would walk in and out, sit on their laptop and take notes, and not even introduce themselves. Hmmm-it really does sound like Long Term Capital.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

If you’re looking for a designer, engineer, or biz marketing guy – go to meetups / conferences that those people would go to. Should I require and NDA? With that live, you’ll be able to show other smart engineers and advisors that you’re willing to take some risk and build something. A+ engineering talent. Then launch.

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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). Our team is 5 engineers, 2 QA and a project manager. Request of Information - Write and run an RFI process to sift your long-list of vendors down to a short-list of between 4 - 10 vendors.

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thestartuplawyer.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Before I bring in any principals I will have the company all set up, some engineering done and patents pending. Before I bring in any principals I will have the company all set up, some engineering done and patents pending. He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder. Will (should) they insist on it?

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Gust

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

Not so much that it slows you down, but enough so that you smoothly run and grow the engine. It will be a long time before you have in-house counsel, and you can’t afford an outside law firm for every NDA to sign. “Time to get organized” – Your CFO should take a leading role in bringing operational excellence into your company.

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

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www.readwriteweb.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2010

Blos it ranks quit well in The Seachr Engines eyes and hase a cool pack of plugins that come with. Posted by: George | May 14, 2010 3:46 AM I love Wordpress asewell, without it bloggers would have a tough time ranking in the search engines. nda merak etti?iniz I really cant see it any other way. eyi bulabilece?iniz

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

No NDA's to sign, no software to install, no IT resources required. The first one I want you to immerse yourself in when you are in the Store data is Search Engine Optimization. Just get access to this data and play with the actual GA account along with Adobe and IBM and WebTrends et. Awesome, right?

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