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Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions

SoCal CTO

This overview (executive summary) needs to include: Product and Business What is the product? How does the product solve a pain? What are related products/companies? What product, market testing have you done so far, if any? Frequently Asked Questions Will we sign an NDA? Who's the customer? Are there specs?

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Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions

SoCal CTO

This overview (executive summary) needs to include: Product and Business What is the product? How does the product solve a pain? What are related products/companies? What product, market testing have you done so far, if any? Frequently Asked Questions Will we sign an NDA? Who's the customer? Are there specs?

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

Steve Blank

You can protect business processes, know how, customer information, product road map. Contract, NDA. _. If your product is software, copyright is also used to prevent someone from stealing your software and reselling it as machine and/or source code.) Or it can be your brand , logo or domain name. Trade Secrets. _. Inventions.

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The Valley Lacks Flexibility, Not Talent

ReadWriteStart

Guest author Chris Heilmann has been a professional Web developer since 1997 and has worked in various agencies and corporations on large, international products. communicating and working together in a sensible way means you can build your products 24/7. Companies keep buying startups with cool products, good ideas and talent.

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The cult of the NDA

www.frozennorth.org

The cult of the NDA. Every one of these companies believed they had a unique idea, either a piece of technology, a business model, or a way of building a product. Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) were the order of the day. Why the cult of the NDA? 3) I have a unique idea for a new product or service. Categories.

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How To Find A Technical Cofounder For Your Online Business Idea

www.virtuosimedia.com

If, by chance, the relationship does survive and the product gets launched, that doesn’t mean that there’s smooth sailing from that point forward. Startup internet projects often arrive slightly buggy at first and if the entrepreneur didn’t take the time to research the market in advance, the product can be dead on arrival.

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Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup

mashable.com

There’s a spectrum from descriptive names which speak directly to a product benefit or attribute, to empty vessel names, where it doesn’t mean anything about the product that we’re talking about.&# Johnson also says that search engine issues have affected the style of names. I'd be happy to sign an nda.

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