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

Steve Blank

Early on in my career I took a “we’re moving too fast to deal with lawyers” attitude to patents and Intellectual Property (IP.) You can protect business processes, know how, customer information, product road map. Type of IP. _. non-public technology. customer lists, formula. _. What is Protectable. _.

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. You’ll gauge people’s excitement level for the product and for various features. Beyond that, I want lots of conversations with experts, users, customers, VCs, partners, etc. You’ll discover flaws and hopefully correct them.

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Nuts & Bolts of Intellectual Property for New Startups

Gust

So you’ve chosen a name for your startup, product, or both. 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.)

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. You’ll gauge people’s excitement level for the product and for various features. Beyond that, I want lots of conversations with experts, users, customers, VCs, partners, etc. You’ll discover flaws and hopefully correct them.

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Startup IP tips before you launch

NZ Entrepreneur

In this article, we discuss what startups should consider in the context of different intellectual property rights, and provide general tips for startups before commercialising their product. Better still; get them to sign a non-disclosure agreement before you disclose anything. i) Disclosing your idea.

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

Steve Blank

Customer Development We were starting Epiphany, my last company. I was out and about in Silicon Valley doing what I would now call Customer Discovery trying to understand how marketing departments in large corporations worked. He continued: “I’d like to convince my boss so our company can be your first customer.”

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Key Contracts Every Business Must Use

YoungUpstarts

Think about it – when is the last time a business didn’t benefit from having smart employees or strong customer relationships? Whether the information is trade secrets, business know-how, financial data, product plans, customer acquisition strategies, the information a business possesses is what makes it valuable and unique.