Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 8, 2023

Don’t count on contracts and non-disclosure agreements to save you. Internal services, like marketing and accounting, are more manageable and have less customer visibility. Startups are often distributed entities, so adding and managing freelancers, contractors, and outsourcing firms is not a big step.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 13, 2020

Don’t count on contracts and non-disclosure agreements to save you. Internal services, like marketing and accounting, are more manageable and have less customer visibility. Startups are often distributed entities, so adding and managing freelancers, contractors, and outsourcing firms is not a big step.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 8, 2014

Dont count on contracts and non-disclosure agreements to save you. Internal services, like marketing and accounting, are more manageable and have less customer visibility. Startups are often distributed entities, so adding and managing freelancers, contractors, and outsourcing firms is not a big step.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 20, 2016

Don’t count on contracts and non-disclosure agreements to save you. Internal services, like marketing and accounting, are more manageable and have less customer visibility. Startups are often distributed entities, so adding and managing freelancers, contractors, and outsourcing firms is not a big step.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

Please consult a patent attorney for more information about filing for a patent, and getting your idea to market. . But, when it comes to inventing things, the real trick is sticking the journey through or going from idea to invention to market. Step 3: Do basic market research (before investing money). Resources for inventors.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Consider Bob Parsons , the founder of GoDaddy Hosting. You may believe to have a great idea, but the market may not agree to that. How will you distribute your product? Make sure you are in compliance with your non-disclosure agreement and any other employment agreements that you have signed.

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sivers.org

JUNE 25, 2010

Programmers, and certainly not the visionary founders, are the most qualified for that task. #6 Dont make cheap skate equity offers, with programmer getting equity share of first employee and salary of founder(nothing or next to nothing). And probably youre no marketing expert and salesman, either.

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