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Stealth Mode Startup

www.frozennorth.org

If youve read my Cult of the NDA article (which, by the way, remains one of the most-read articles on this blog), then you know that I think good luck and good execution are far more important to success in a startup than a Really Big Idea. They didnt even offer to sign an NDA. AIM Screen Name: DFNfrozenNorth. Categories. Statistics.

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How To Find A Technical Cofounder For Your Online Business Idea

www.virtuosimedia.com

This article should also serve as a starting guide for programmers who are approached about becoming technical co-founders. Sign that person to an NDA if necessary. It’s simply an untenable situation to expect the technical co-founder to assume the full burden of risk through sweat equity. Rework it as necessary.

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Series Seed Financing Documents

www.seriesseed.com

This is all built into a typical founder stock purchase agreement. 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. This is great.simplified funding/founders docs out of the box. Kind Regards.

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Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup

mashable.com

I suggest you never call this person again for information TheNameInspector The founder of Kodak was George Eastman. I'd be happy to sign an nda. Was looking for something like this. thank you Edouard Reinach kodak is not a word made from nothing. the guy who built the kodak compagny is Eastman Kodak. He invented the name Kodak.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

But when done well it can really help get a company going fast, professionally and without the founders having to give up much (if any) equity - or bankrupting themselves. The founders may believe they are onto such a good idea that they don’t want to give up any equity. You dont /have/ to build vendor lists and out-source.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

And since a startup thatsucceeds ordinarily makes its founders rich, that implies gettingrich is doable too. A lot ofwould-be startup founders think the key to the whole process is theinitial idea, and from that point all you have to do is execute.Venture capitalists know better. Ideally you want between two and four founders.

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Top 10 Common Mistakes By First-Time Online Entrepreneurs

Kodorra

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. Mistake – Choosing the Wrong Partner or Co-Founder. You just a domain name, a web hosting account and online software, which could be free, thanks to open source.