Steve Blank
DECEMBER 7, 2009
Welcome to the Internet bubble.) We consciously didn’t ask potential customers to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA). And we figured that unless litigation was going to be our business strategy, NDA’s would have inhibited the back-and-forth that made us smarter. That’s not found in a set of slides.
Up and Running
JULY 25, 2016
Even from the outset, Pied Piper had problems related to IP, with the founder having to beg a local irrigation company for the rights to the company name. Given that Pied Piper is both a startup and a tech company, the frequency with which IP comes up isn’t surprising—over 90 percent of a startup’s value is in its intangible assets.
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venturebeat.com
MARCH 8, 2011
Don’t use company property or Internet, ever - Another clause in most employment agreements is that anything you do physically at work, or on software and equipment owned by the company (e.g. Assume everything you do on the Internet is recorded, cataloged, tagged, and monitored continuously.
www.humbledmba.com
SEPTEMBER 16, 2011
I started my first internet company while getting my MBA. I had taken classes on IP, first-mover advantage, etc. 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. If we werent careful about this, our IP claims would be worthless.
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). We are on the high end of the range, and I think expecting less would be unrealistic unless you are building something really simple (and therefore with limited inherent IP). Nice article.
www.paulgraham.com
OCTOBER 23, 2010
The market price is less than the inconvenience of signing an NDA. During the Internet Bubble there were a number of startups founded by business people who then wentlooking for hackers to create their product for them. But its hard to raise money with an IP cloud over your head, becauseinvestors cant judge how serious it is.
maplebutter.com
JANUARY 8, 2013
Instead of spending 4 years at university, I spend 4 years starting 2 internet companies that failed. Should I require and NDA? What is the first step in creating an internet-based business (After planning) ? Where do you think the internet is taking us for the future? Then launch. Can you recommend any books?
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