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Six Criteria for Outsourcing the Right Processes

Startup Professionals Musings

Near-shore and local outsourcing alternatives are manageable with contracts and non-disclosure agreements. Creative products, like chip design programs, architectural rendering, or consumer games are not easily outsourced. Some country cultures have little appreciation for software as intellectual property.

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Six Key Factors in the Right Outsourcing Decision

Startup Professionals Musings

Near-shore and local outsourcing alternatives are manageable with contracts and non-disclosure agreements. Creative products, like chip design programs, architectural rendering, or consumer games are not easily outsourced. Some country cultures have little appreciation for software as intellectual property.

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To Outsource or Not to Outsource Software

Startup Professionals Musings

Near-shore and local outsourcing alternatives are manageable with contracts and non-disclosure agreements. Creative products, like chip design programs, architectural rendering, or consumer games are not easily outsourced. Some country cultures have little appreciation for software as intellectual property.

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy

Steve Blank

The assets you can protect may include your “core technology&# like source code, hardware designs, architectures, processes, formulas. A contract is a binding legal agreement that is enforceable in a court of law. a Non Disclosure Agreement gives you certain rights to protection of your confidential information.)

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The Dos And Don’ts Of Selling Your Business

Duct Tape Marketing

The government, for example, often defines small business by the number of employees. because a main street business creates the connotation in our head of that small mom and pop kind of business, maybe with a few employees. Uh, architecture firm, marketing agency. In my experience, most employees need their job.

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[Singapore] A Look Inside Facebook’s Singapore Office

YoungUpstarts

A PR minder told us that prior to this tour visitors were required to sign a non-disclosure agreement form before being allowed into its offices, with photography strictly prohibited. The reception area (above) was a colorful surprise, painted as it is with vibrant art by local street artists.

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How to hire a programmer to make your ideas happen

sivers.org

Dont make cheap skate equity offers, with programmer getting equity share of first employee and salary of founder(nothing or next to nothing). Only thing Ill add: dont ask the programmer to sign a lengthy contract with non disclosure agreements, invention assignment, etc. Learn programming with python language and do 1.0