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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. Embed: 13 Comments.

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After Facebook's IPO flub, value of tech startups falls back to earth

www.theverge.com

Check out this article from CNN back in August 2004 and the GOOG IPO troubles. You don’t mind signing an NDA, do you? Too many companies value shareholders over customers and that leads to corporate senescence, which is very bad for shareholders. (By Notice the handwringing, the failure. June 19, 2012. Ben Popper. June 19, 2012.

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16 Common Mistakes Young Startups Make

mashable.com

In fact, recent research shows that 75% of startups fail (based on a study of 2,000 startups that received VC funding from 2004 to 2010). How many entrepreneurs opening words are about how stealth their project is, followed by a 10-page NDA to hear word one? If so, I hate to break it to you, but theres a good chance it will fail.

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