Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 17, 2011

Since my background includes software development, I often get the question about when to build a solution in-house, versus outsourcing it to a local company, near-shore service, or off-shore organization in China, India, or Eastern Europe. If your software is your solution and “secret sauce,” don’t entrust it to outsiders of any kind.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2016

If you have a software development background like mine, I’m sure you often get questions about when to outsource, versus building the solution in-house. If your software or your manufacturing process is your “secret sauce,” you need to keep the work in-house. Don’t count on contracts and non-disclosure agreements to save you.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

For example, I once worked for a small software company selling a sophisticated enterprise workflow solution. Make sure you don’t violate even the spirit of local laws or customs, and make sure your intellectual property is protected with proper two-way non-disclosure agreements before you start.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2009

software, songs, movies, web site content. _. non-public technology. If your product is software, copyright is also used to prevent someone from stealing your software and reselling it as machine and/or source code.) A contract is a binding legal agreement that is enforceable in a court of law. Examples. _.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Startup Reality Distortion #3: The Fallacy Of the Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) Don’t rely on an NDA to protect the truly “secret” stuff. Again, relying on StartupRoar this time looking at NDA for Startups , I found some good stuff that you should definitely go through in more detail. False Confidence.

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Gust

DECEMBER 22, 2011

It’s possible to have a company with literally millions of customers (users) that employs only a handful of people, working in a small rented office, with hardware and software costing in the tens of thousands rather than millions of dollars. (Instagram is a textbook example.) Most of our early-stage startup clients fit this description.

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mashable.com

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Brett Miller is the president of Custom Software by Preston (CSP). For more than 10 years CSP has impressed clients with highly effective software solutions and teams of multi-talented software engineers. I'd approached Advanced Millennium Technologies, to develop our ERP software, last September.

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SoCal CTO

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Startup Reality Distortion #3: The Fallacy Of the Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) Don’t rely on an NDA to protect the truly “secret” stuff. Again, relying on StartupRoar this time looking at NDA for Startups , I found some good stuff that you should definitely go through in more detail. False Confidence.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

As we were out looking for our Series B round, our company had gotten the attention of “name of big VC firm here” who wanted a play in enterprise software. We consciously didn’t ask potential customers to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA). Are These Your Slides? Welcome to the Internet bubble.)

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NZ Entrepreneur

MAY 18, 2020

Better still; get them to sign a non-disclosure agreement before you disclose anything. ii) Using open source software. Open source software can be useful in terms of development of a project. You will need to be wary of crucial mistakes when opting to use open source software.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

If you want to explain your idea to someone in-depth and are worried potential theft, you can get them to sign a non-disclosure agreement (NDA)—a legal document that states both parties intent to keep information confidential. The non-disclosure agreement (NDA).

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JANUARY 5, 2022

Also, when your employees agree to non-disclosure agreements, but they fail to follow the terms they first decided upon, you’ll need a criminal attorney to defend your claims. How much of your business software is covered under copyright protection laws? When You Need to Make Negotiations. How do you make an argument?

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 1, 2014

For example, I once worked for a small software company selling a sophisticated enterprise workflow solution. Make sure you don’t violate even the spirit of local laws or customs, and make sure your intellectual property is protected with proper two-way non-disclosure agreements before you start.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 29, 2014

Intellectual property is divided into four major categories: Copyrights: software, literature works, and TV broadcasts. A common way to protect trade secrets is by having non-disclosure agreements and protecting sensitive documents. Trademarks: brands and logos. Three reasons to learn more about IP: 1.

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Growthink Blog

JANUARY 29, 2014

This blog post was written by Mary Juetten, founder of Traklight.com, a site that provides inventors, creators, and small businesses with integrated software tools to identify and protect intellectual property. If I have a mutual NDA with Company A, I cannot go to software Company B and spill secrets learned from Company A.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 12, 2016

While you can get non disclosure agreements printed out, having people sign these before you meet with them can be difficult. You can easily find safety management software that can help you get organized. Even if a business does still try to do it, they are unlikely to make much of a difference.

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Otherwise, a company should never publicly disclose their invention to anyone without a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) until a decision is made to patent the technology and file an initial patent application. Make sure to use the copyright symbol © along with the year of creation and name of the owner.

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mashable.com

OCTOBER 27, 2010

When you’re working with a freelance or contract developer, make sure you have all your paperwork — from non-disclosure agreements to invoices and beyond — signed and sealed early in the process.

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Austin Startup

MAY 21, 2017

But software and music both still cost money back then. I could download mp3 music for free from Napster, but most of the software I wanted was not open source yet and had to be purchased. That was the software that everyone wanted at the time. Because that’s how software used to get delivered. With a manual. And CD-ROMs.

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www.frozennorth.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) were the order of the day. One startup even printed its NDA on the back of visitors badges, just like a software "shrink wrap" agreement: "By accepting this visitors badge, you agree to the terms of this Non-Disclosure Agreement."

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Software development is like an iceberg – 90% of it is under the surface. If you require a non-disclosure agreement for me to simply even hear your idea, I’m going to walk away unless you’re a Steve Jobs or Bill Gates type of figure. The UI is the 10% above the water.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

A nice selection of contracts for startups and small businesses (non-disclosure agreements, employment agreements, sales representative agreements, independent contractor agreements, and more) and also freelancers and others.

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YoungUpstarts

MAY 10, 2016

Many entrepreneurs preserve an earlier filing date by first filing for an easier-to-secure provisional patent and the completing the non-provisional patent application process within the allocated year. Software code is an entrepreneurial innovation considered to be an original creative works, not an invention. Copyrights.

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Kodorra

AUGUST 23, 2018

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. You just a domain name, a web hosting account and online software, which could be free, thanks to open source. Mistake – Believing You Don’t Have Any Competitors.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Sandcastle is a software development service for entrepreneurs. The blog software thinks Im spam, so if you want to find us, go to "build a sandcastle dot com" Sherlie Matthews (2010-06-19) # I need desperate help in revamping my website, self-built many years ago with Dreamweaver. Click on my name for the link.

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