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10 Tips On Due Diligence On Any Startup Funding Offer

Startup Professionals Musings

No real investor or venture capital firm asks for money from the company they are intending to invest in. They promise to provide all the info at the time of close, after you sign a non-disclosure agreement. Off-shore unsolicited investor offers. Pump and dump stock schemes. Cash transfer assistance funding.

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10 Scams To Avoid While Seeking New Venture Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

No real investor or venture capital firm asks for money from the company they are intending to invest in. They promise to provide all the info at the time of close, after you sign a non-disclosure agreement. Off-shore unsolicited investor offers. Pump and dump stock schemes. Cash transfer assistance funding.

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10 Ways Aspiring Entrepreneurs Are Often Victimized

Startup Professionals Musings

No real investor or venture capital firm asks for money from the company they are intending to invest in. They promise to provide all the info at the time of close, after you sign a non-disclosure agreement. Off-shore unsolicited investor offers. Pump and dump stock schemes. Cash transfer assistance funding.

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Shortcuts To Entrepreneur Funding Are Usually Scams

Startup Professionals Musings

No real investor or venture capital firm asks for money from the company they are intending to invest in. They promise to provide all the info at the time of close, after you sign a non-disclosure agreement. Off-shore unsolicited investor offers. Pump and dump stock schemes. Ignore these.

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

Steve Blank

a Non Disclosure Agreement gives you certain rights to protection of your confidential information.) 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. Posted in Technology, Venture Capital.

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6 Ways To Fund Your Invention

YoungUpstarts

Absent an agreement to maintain confidentiality, disclosing your idea to family and friends may constitute a public disclosure that disqualifies you from patent protection. Make sure that you have protected your intellectual property and/or have the investors sign a non-disclosure agreement before revealing the specifics of your idea.

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Nuts & Bolts of Intellectual Property for New Startups

Gust

Patents are property rights granted by the government to exclude all others from making, using, selling or importing anything that uses or incorporates the patented invention (usually described as a new, useful and non-obvious method or process, described in enough detail that it can be reduced to practice).