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

Steve Blank

Contract, NDA. _. A patent is a government granted monopoly to prevent others from making, using or selling your invention – even if the other parties infringement was innocent or accidental. Red flags: Start of sales effort, Price list, price quotation, Trade show demonstration, Any demonstration not under NDA.

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Seeking CEO+team for VC-backed startup: Make America Functional Again

David Teten

These might include, e.g., mitigating climate change, strengthening democracy, enforcing ethics in government, promoting national security, and protecting against information warfare. . For 2 years, I’ve been struggling to think what I can do to help make America functional again, in light of how broken our governance is.

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Seeking CEO+team for VC-backed startup: Make America Functional Again

David Teten

Our initial test market: We want to make America functional again by helping our users, such as major advocacy organizations and corporations, promote majoritarian-supported policies, e.g., mitigating climate change, strengthening democracy, enforcing ethics in government, promoting national security, and protecting against information warfare. .

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Protect Your Business Plan Like It’s Your Baby—Here’s How

Up and Running

The intellectual property of a business, which in many instances functions as the lifeblood of a company, is almost always financially valuable and that value increases as the company grows and starts generating revenue. Most often, business plans are used to raise money and acquire talent. Problems with formally protecting your IP.

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Top Legal Concerns for Mobile Application Startups

Early Growth Financial Services

What is the easiest way to form a legal entity between two people (51%-49%) who want to build a revenue producing mobile application? The determination should be based on consideration of tax issues, corporate governance, limitation of liability and other factors.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

The market price is less than the inconvenience of signing an NDA. In those days you could go public as adogfood portal, so as a company with a real product and real revenues,we might have done well. A rich companyis one with large revenues. This money isnt revenue. That shows how much a mere idea is worth.

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Crazy! 189 Answers To The Top Startup Questions On Your Mind

maplebutter.com

I would focus on one product and set a goal to generate $1M in yearly revenue from it. Outsourcing is something a big company, with a known customer / problem (that has revenue & traction) does to save cost. Should I require and NDA? Government grants – Credit cards / debt. Once you’ve done that – then. Then launch.