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Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup

mashable.com

Anyone who has sat stymied with their cursor blinking in a “username” field knows that coming up with a name is harder than you’d think. We talked to bloggers, social media gurus, linguists and naming experts (yes, they exist!) to get the scoop on finding a name that will work on the web. How Do I Start? Ask yourself: 2.

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The Ultimate Inventor’s Guide to Inventing Things

Up and Running

Boris Wertz, founding partner of Version One Ventures, believes that if you’ve worked in an industry you’re passionate about for a long time, you may know something about the market that nobody else knows. You will still need to do an online search to make sure you’re not infringing on someone else’s idea. Patent Search.

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One More Time: No NDAs

dashes.com

By unusual coincidence, this week I had a number of different folks ask me to sign NDA s about the new projects theyre working on. But signing an NDA ? If I honor your NDA, and I meet a great investor or potential employee or valuable partner for your new venture, I wouldnt be able to tell them about it.

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Things to Avoid When Recruiting Co-founders

grasshopperherder.com

Names redacted.) Unless your name is Mesmero the Magnificent, it’s probably not going to work on me. Don’t Even Ask for an NDA This just makes me laugh. UPDATE: It is of course perfectly reasonable to ask for an NDA before giving away the super secret sauce. I just need a co-founder to web enable it!"

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Stealth Mode Startup

www.frozennorth.org

AIM Screen Name: DFNfrozenNorth. 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. Categories.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #11: New Year’s advice for middle-aged people

Austin Startup

Bill Wood, founder of Silverton Partners and an early General Partner at Austin Ventures before, said something that got me thinking (quoting from the SiliconHills article ): Because it’s easy to startup a company and doesn’t take a lot of money, Silverton Partners sees more startups forming, Wood said. not just Jewish people).

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Create your IP strategy early to avoid common pitfalls

NZ Entrepreneur

Using the appropriate symbols serves as a notice to others that the brand names are being used as trade marks, providing the owner with rights to stop others using the same or confusingly similar names. Make sure to use the copyright symbol © along with the year of creation and name of the owner.

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