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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. Taylor was the co-founder of Google Maps, CEO of the ill-fated social network FriendFeed, and former Facebook CTO. Files you need to collaborate on with others, sometimes across different time zones.

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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.