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Why Co-Founders Are a Startup's Biggest Liability | The Startup Lawyer

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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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How to Start a Startup

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The market price is less than the inconvenience of signing an NDA. Microsofts originalplan was to make money selling programming languages, of all things.Their current business model didnt occur to them until IBM droppedit in their lap five years later. Ididnt realize that when we were raising money. Thereis no rational way.

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