Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 24, 2015

Most entrepreneurs I meet are reluctant to disclose anything about their idea to investors before getting a signed confidential disclosure agreement (CDA). Yet I can assure you that people who are paranoid, or want to avoid all risks, won’t be happy as entrepreneurs, so it’s all about balancing the risk-reward scale.

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Growthink Blog

MAY 20, 2011

I received an email last week from an entrepreneur (let's call him Mike) Now to begin, I was pretty impressed with Mike since he used a nice technique to get his email in my inbox (due to the volume of emails I receive, they are screened by others before they get to me). Getting a $100 Million valuation is impossible for a startup.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2009

It may seem full of legal definitions and terms but my two takeaways are: 1) Entrepreneurs need to know about these legal options, 2) Consulting an intellectual property attorney is a good move even before you get funded. A contract is a binding legal agreement that is enforceable in a court of law. Intellectual Property.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

We consciously didn’t ask potential customers to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA). With your permission, I’d like to tell this tale and direct other aspiring entrepreneurs to follow your lead! As a young entrepreneur in his first startup, this post hits our current situation spot on.

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NZ Entrepreneur

MAY 18, 2020

In most cases, you will also need to present your idea to third parties, for example venture capital investors. Better still; get them to sign a non-disclosure agreement before you disclose anything. The post Startup IP tips before you launch appeared first on NZ Entrepreneur Magazine.

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Gust

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Apart from registration issues, which are beyond the scope of this post, there are three main tools commonly used: Non-disclosure Agreements ( NDAs or confidentiality agreements) are used (some would say overused) for many reasons, but one of them is to maintain trade secret status when sharing information with external parties.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

Boris Wertz, founding partner of Version One Ventures, believes that if you’ve worked in an industry you’re passionate about for a long time, you may know something about the market that nobody else knows. If You Want Venture Capital, You Need It. See Also: Market Research Resources for Entrepreneurs.

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www.frozennorth.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

To all those entrepreneurs with innovative, unique business ideas who want to capitalize on them before someone else does, I have one piece of advice: Get over it. Non-disclosure agreements (NDAs) were the order of the day. AIM Screen Name: DFNfrozenNorth. Categories. Statistics. The cult of the NDA. magazine.

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