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How To Use Partnerships To Grow Your Business

YoungUpstarts

Together, you can offer a much wider array of services and increase your territories significantly as compared to what you and your partner could have achieved independently. This kind of cross-marketing strategy among partners is also beneficial to their clients and brings better value to them.

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The Valley Lacks Flexibility, Not Talent

ReadWriteStart

Where it stops being cool is when gifted and courted developers face outdated infrastructures and the attitude of large Valley corporates. Guest author Chris Heilmann has been a professional Web developer since 1997 and has worked in various agencies and corporations on large, international products. Interviews are Applications.

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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. link] Stan James.

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Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup

mashable.com

Mark Suster (GRP Partners VC) nails it in this (audio, summary blog post) clip I borrowed from a recent ThisWeekInVentureCapital (#twivc) episode. I'd be happy to sign an nda. I, like you, do not have my website up & running, but had to begin using my name so I could begin work. But don't take my word for it.

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

maplebutter.com

What is the best advice you can give for finding a business partner? Don’t quickly choose any business partner. I need a good reliable developer and also a mentor to help guide me through the process. Should I require and NDA? The key is to ask the right people what they think – not your friends, parents or partner.