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Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions

SoCal CTO

This overview (executive summary) needs to include: Product and Business What is the product? What's the business model short-term and long-term? Send your overview to me (Tony Karrer): akarrer@techempower.com Based on the type of business, we will distribute it to someone who is most appropriate. Who's the customer?

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Free Startup CTO Consulting Sessions

SoCal CTO

This overview (executive summary) needs to include: Product and Business What is the product? What's the business model short-term and long-term? Send your overview to me (Tony Karrer): akarrer@techempower.com Based on the type of business, we will distribute it to someone who is most appropriate. Who's the customer?

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How to Protect IP When Outsourcing Software Development

Up and Running

If you’re in the early stages of starting your tech-based or SaaS business , it makes good sense to consider IP (intellectual property) protection a critical part of your business model. It’s a way to reduce your business’s risk. Include these crucial clauses in your employment contracts.

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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My.

Steve Blank

Our business model changed as we realized that to become a large company, we needed to automate more than just a few marketers. We consciously didn’t ask potential customers to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA). We concluded that, at least for us in this market, an NDA would be a bigger impediment than asset.

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The cult of the NDA

www.frozennorth.org

The cult of the NDA. To all those entrepreneurs with innovative, unique business ideas who want to capitalize on them before someone else does, I have one piece of advice: Get over it. Every one of these companies believed they had a unique idea, either a piece of technology, a business model, or a way of building a product.

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Startup Myths #1 – You Need an NDA

chrissundberg.com

Startup Myths #1 – You Need an NDA. I’ve been hearing lots of people talk about starting their own businesses recently and would like to quell some of the misinformation that I’ve heard circulating. You Need an NDA. The Myth: You need an NDA to protect your intellectual property. I sign an NDA.

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Things to Avoid When Recruiting Co-founders

grasshopperherder.com

Don’t Even Ask for an NDA This just makes me laugh. If I can steal your idea by just hearing it, there is no defensible business model there. UPDATE: It is of course perfectly reasonable to ask for an NDA before giving away the super secret sauce. It means there actually might be a market for your idea.