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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My.

Steve Blank

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. In Customer Discovery we were learning as much from them as they did from us. Now In Print!

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Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup

mashable.com

Contact Us Submit News Contact Us Write for Us Spark of Genius Series Mashable | The Social Media Guide Business Mashable on Facebook Join Us! We talked to bloggers, social media gurus, linguists and naming experts (yes, they exist!) I'd be happy to sign an nda. to get the scoop on finding a name that will work on the web.

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How To Find A Technical Cofounder For Your Online Business Idea

www.virtuosimedia.com

About Virtuosi Media. Social Media. Sign that person to an NDA if necessary. An NDA – This isn’t a deal-breaker for everyone, but it can be for me, depending on how it’s structured. However, I may be open to a NDA once I hear your initial idea and if the NDA is reasonably structured.

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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret

cdixon.org

A note about NDAs: 1) almost no experienced entrepreneurs/VCs will sign them (in fact, you asking them too is widely considered a sign of inexperience), 2) It’s not clear they have any real value – are you really going to spend years suing someone who signed an NDA? Have any candidate sign an NDA. Follow @cdixon.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

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). Functional Specification - write a document called a functional specification; this explains to the developer what each screen in your mock-up does and what every button and link on the mock-up should do.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

what are the most crucial steps to be taken by a new tech startup when outsourcing major part of the tech to IT firms or outsourcing “product development” eg new social media website project? Should I require and NDA? How can i sell my social media whytofollow.me? How can you find and assemble a team I can trust?