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Nuts & Bolts of Intellectual Property for New Startups

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Most traditional, bricks-and-mortar businesses have substantial, often enormous hard assets, such as raw materials and supplies, work-in-process, inventory, manufacturing equipment, real estate and more, as well as armies of employees. Tech startups are at the other extreme.

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

Steve Blank

Copyright gives you the right to prevent others from copying, distributing or making derivatives of your work. 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.) Copyright.

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13 Helpful Organization and Productivity Apps For Small Businesses

crowdSPRING Blog

And then there’s all of the critical information, like legal contracts and forms, you and your employees need to access. How to replicate their benefits for remote workers and distributed teams is a challenge many companies face. Quickly Legal helps you create, sign, and manage legal agreements on any device, at any time.

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Cloud Tools: Useful PDF Forms For Business and Education

The Startup Magazine

The nondisclosure agreement is a written contract, in which a Disclosing Party binds a recipient of confidential information from releasing it to a third party or to the general public. You can download the non-disclosure agreement form to stay on the safe side. Assignments Sheet.

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Do It Right The First Time, Part II: Visit the Doctor or House Call?

Gust

Determine the allocation of equity among co-founders, early employees or other service providers, and future contributors as applicable, as well as the vesting schedule , if any, that will apply. Offer letters for employees. Independent contractor or consulting agreements. Advisory board agreements. Newco, Inc.”)

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How to Start Your Own Business While You’re Still Employed

Up and Running

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. Have employees, or. But before that, there are a few questions you need to answer: Does your idea(s) solve a pain point? Do you have a product?

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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). In such a case youll have the right to use it, but not to decompile or distribute it and probably youll pay a license amount for it. You *can indeed* build products with distributed teams.