Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2015

If you receive an email requesting details on your plan from someone you don’t know, you should respond with a CDA, as well as begin a more serious cross-check with reliable sources. CDA entrepreneur idea NDA non-disclosure startup' Unsolicited proposals or requests for information.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

We consciously didn’t ask potential customers to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA). And we figured that unless litigation was going to be our business strategy, NDA’s would have inhibited the back-and-forth that made us smarter. In Customer Discovery we were learning as much from them as they did from us. Now In Print!

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dashes.com

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

By unusual coincidence, this week I had a number of different folks ask me to sign NDA s about the new projects theyre working on. But signing an NDA ? If I honor your NDA, and I meet a great investor or potential employee or valuable partner for your new venture, I wouldnt be able to tell them about it. Embed: 13 Comments.

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David Teten

MAY 7, 2019

I do not require an NDA, assuming you have relevant qualifications. Send an email to info(@)teten.com with the following information: – detailed resumes of the entire team, including your online identity (personal website, LinkedIn, etc.). – For insight into how VCs evaluate teams, see Five VC Team Evaluation Techniques. Sounds great!

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David Teten

JULY 10, 2019

I do not require an NDA. How do you envision we work together? This is the process I envision that’s most likely to result in success: Assuming you have relevant qualifications, I share my detailed business plan. If you’re still interested, we meet; get to know one another; do mutual due diligence. See Ready to Join a New Management Team?

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onstartups.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Get Articles By Email. Your email: Blog Navigator. Startup Reality Distortion #3: The Fallacy Of the Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA). In my role as angel investor and informal startup advisor, the issue of NDAs (non-disclosure agreements) comes up about once or twice a month. . The Fallacy Of The NDA. .

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 21, 2015

Anyone who might have access to your trade secrets should sign an NDA at the beginning of the relationship. Investigate whether the employee has exhibited any unusual behavior such as excessive copying, downloading, emailing, or erasing of records. If permitted by company policy and law, make a copy of the employee’s hard drive.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 8, 2011

It went something like the following via several emails over the course of a week. Me: Can you send me a short email overview so I can tell you whether or not it’s something we’d be interested in exploring? Will you sign an NDA first? Me: I don’t sign NDA’s. Can we get together to discuss?

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Mike Michalowicz

AUGUST 19, 2014

So I said the only way to get into my event, even if you had a ticket, was by signing a non-disclosure agreement (NDA). Individual Invites - EO normally emails the entire group in giant email blast. So I sent out an individual email right before the group blast went out. Who really wants to be part of the herd?

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Every question below has been asked via email, comment or Twitter over the past four weeks. Once the seller indicated a sale might be possible I asked for the first 3 from the list above, asked for a few more in a subsequent email, and so on. We begin some email chit chat to find out more about each other. We settle on a price.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Many companies in a position to invest in a future business will not sign an NDA; furthermore, it’s likely that your request for them to sign one will give the impression of a lack of professionalism and experience. Most often, business plans are used to raise money and acquire talent. See Also: Intellectual Property 101.

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Feld Thoughts

JULY 10, 2012

Following is an example from an email I got (on the all@ list) from a company I’m on the board of (and yes – I checked to make sure I could post this.). but they’re looking to understand details that should never be discussed with outsiders, even if there is a NDA in place. But I also respect confidentiality.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Personally identifiable information is broadly defined, so your website needs a privacy policy even if visitors simply submit their email addresses to receive company news and updates. - Doug Bend , Bend Law Group, PC. The opportunity to use a mutual NDA can arise when starting to work with business development partners.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Email us or call +44 (0) 844 3579899 home about services blog labs Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate) « Upgraded your iPhone to OS 3 but files are missing? Apache with Django and mod_wsgi » Posted by Aidan, 6 th July 2009. Company registered in England and Wales #5189175.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Sign that person to an NDA if necessary. If it takes days, weeks, or even months for you to respond to an email, I’m not going to work with you. An NDA – This isn’t a deal-breaker for everyone, but it can be for me, depending on how it’s structured. If it's not financially viable, abandon it.

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VC Adventure

AUGUST 11, 2010

It started with a relatively typical email. I haven’t filed any patents yet and I need a nda signed. Here’s what I received in response: Seth… I’m reaching out to you here, lets get off this old cookie cutter vc "don’t sign nda’s" attitude, it’s only until the patents are filed.

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Business Plan Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2013

This may be the number of sales representatives, website traffic and conversion rates, size of email lists, number of licensees, etc. NDA Insistence. In short, investors don’t sign NDAs. Good ideas come down their pipeline all the time and they will not be afraid to overlook yours because of an NDA.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

A note about NDAs: 1) almost no experienced entrepreneurs/VCs will sign them (in fact, you asking them too is widely considered a sign of inexperience), 2) It’s not clear they have any real value – are you really going to spend years suing someone who signed an NDA? Have any candidate sign an NDA. Watson. [.]

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

I'd be happy to sign an nda. Frances McInnis is a journalist and crossword enthusiast based in New York City. She has written about culture for Momentum Magazine, business for Resource World Magazine, and a mess of assorted topics for The Huffington Post. Eric Axelson Hi brad. Please let me know.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2012

Although you might feel more comfortable communicating via email on a day-to-day basis, don’t make a choice without talking to candidates via Skype, Google Talk or something similar. Although it’s unlikely that the developer will “steal” it, have him sign a NDA. Check out this post on the subject from SEOmoz for further tips.

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venturebeat.com

MARCH 8, 2011

You can’t answer emails during normal business hours. But then you don’t have a phone number and emails sent to you at 10:00am don’t get answered until that night (which means they’re not viewed until the following day). Then they have 100 emails you sent during work hours. Even that is not enough.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Duct Tape Transcript Email Download New Tab John: Hello and welcome to another episode of the duct tape marketing podcast. So those are all owned platforms in terms and email is a [00:09:00] huge one to email and text, right? The only thing I'll get into in, if they want me to sign an NDA, that's fine. Ryan: exactly.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 22, 2015

So I sent this email: “Can I fly to Boulder and shadow you for a day, and be a fly on the wall in yours and your team’s meetings?” You should probably sign an NDA. Then I went home, and realized how much more I really needed to learn from him and Gnip. ” This was his response a couple of hours later: “ Fun!

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grasshopperherder.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Don’t Even Ask for an NDA This just makes me laugh. UPDATE: It is of course perfectly reasonable to ask for an NDA before giving away the super secret sauce. As a corollary, cold call a VC and try and get them to sign an NDA before your first meeting. Then please email me with the number of meetings you manage to get.

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Feld Thoughts

JANUARY 11, 2012

I’ve had an email exchange with an entrepreneur over the past week. We’ve never met, but he started the email thread by asking if I’d be interested in getting together about his company because he’s looking for financing and he’s sure I’ll be interested. First – the normal part.

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www.humbledmba.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

I hired a lawyer, and he gave us an NDA template and told us that anyone that had knowledge of our proprietary data had to sign it. As I reached out to successful investors and entrepreneurs, I made each of them signed my nifty NDA. Marlon Stevenson responded: I have a startup I want to talk to you about.please email me.I

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Austin Startup

MAY 9, 2018

Every so often, I get an email from an entrepreneur that starts something like this: “By reading further, you agree to the terms of our non-disclosure and non-compete agreement” My immediate reaction is to delete these emails with prejudice. I am not alone. VCs get inundated with pitch decks and proposals for new technology.

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Vendor long-list - build a “long-list&# of possible software vendors and NDA them all, but don‚Äôt rely on it (more on this later). Functional Specification - write a document called a functional specification; this explains to the developer what each screen in your mock-up does and what every button and link on the mock-up should do.

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Up and Running

MAY 18, 2015

Responsive mobile-friendly design, with a double-opt-in MailChimp email signup form, coded in HTML/CSS/Jquery/php, passes all w3 validation checks,’ etc.”. Requiring use of unique identifiers—like using the term “purple frog” in an email subject line—help weed out bots and those freelancers who aren’t paying attention.

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ConversionXL

JULY 31, 2019

An email from Seth Godin’s “The Marketing Seminar” has a profound definition of what “better” really means: When your better aligns with the better of those you seek to serve, you’ll have found an internal compass that can guide your work…”. I can’t share specifics due to an NDA.) Here’s an email that Close.io

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thestartuplawyer.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Contact The Startup Lawyer: Home Page About Contact FAQs Glossary Ryan Roberts Law: Home Page Social Networks: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Flickr Delicious Digg Last.FM He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder. Leave a Reply Click here to cancel reply.

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Feld Thoughts

MAY 4, 2011

This is a great feature as I get 100+ emails a day from people I’ve never communicated with before who I respond to. Several weeks ago, I was contacted again and let into (under NDA) an early adopter program to test out the new feature. Suddenly, I couldn’t add any new contacts at all.

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www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Outcome: last night a Biz Dev guy from Disney/ABC sent me an email asking about partnering with some of their online properties. my skype ID is paul.nelligan my email is nellboy(AT)gmail(DOT)com I’m not joking, I would really like to get your feedback on my product! Can’t get anyone to return your emails?

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

Should I require and NDA? You can start by personally emailing them and saying thanks. I send DM’s, emails, all day thanking people. CPL (email) = $4.35 – our goal was $5. And what do I do with all these email addresses?! I have the vision, model and the core elements of the ideas established. Then launch.

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 7, 2019

We’ve all given and received one-off recommendations in Slack groups or via email. But, of course, there’s a limitation to these collaborations: The targeted influencers have to be your clients—for long enough to have gotten great value from your product and liberated from a self-imposed NDA that keeps them from sharing their story.

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Occam's Razor

AUGUST 9, 2016

No NDA's to sign, no software to install, no IT resources required. You can also create an advanced segment for any of the events above, example Email. The above custom report is really easy to create, for Subscribers of my newsletter I'll also email a downloadable link for this and other custom reports below.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Email us or call +44 (0) 844 3579899 home about services blog labs Which language should my startup use? The problem with development consultancies How to recruit strong technical staff for start-ups Call: +44 (0) 844 3579899 Email: Tweet: @reincubate. « Launch48 last weekend Posted by Aidan, 20 th January 2010.

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