Steve Blank

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Contract, NDA. _. If you hire subcontractors or friends to do some work, get assignment agreements as well.). Red flags: Start of sales effort, Price list, price quotation, Trade show demonstration, Any demonstration not under NDA. . _. software, songs, movies, web site content. _. Trade Secrets. _. Secrets with economic value.

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YoungUpstarts

JULY 16, 2020

The NDA is among the most common of all small business contracts. As such, small businesses should seek to ensure that every employee signs an NDA before entering a formal employment agreement. Your employment agreement should indicate the terms of hiring in line with the specific state or federal laws. Read on for details.

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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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chrissundberg.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

Startup Myths #1 – You Need an NDA. You Need an NDA. The Myth: You need an NDA to protect your intellectual property. The Truth: A Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) can be a useful document. If you take an NDA to any Venture Capitalist or serious Angel Investor… they will immediately stop taking you seriously.

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The Next Web

DECEMBER 2, 2012

Since this process was rather tricky for us, I want to share a step-by-step process you can follow to hire the right talent for your idea. Do I want to hire an individual or a company? Do I want to hire a contractor or employer? Step 3: Hiring, or how do I get started? Step 0: Preparation, or what do I want?

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 18, 2011

and moved from delivery to architecture and developer evangelism to make sure that new hires don't have to have the same bad experiences we all had to go through until companies started appreciating the internet as a platform. If there is no talent to be found in the valley, why not hire in Europe, Asia or India? and a team in the U.S.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 22, 2014

And, if you are working with anyone on your business or idea, having work-for-hire and employment agreements will ensure the work done for the company is owned by the company. If a work for hire agreement is absent, the contractor, not the business, owns the contracted work. Everyone will sign an NDA.

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Up and Running

MAY 18, 2015

The way businesses hire employees to get work done is shifting—where once it was considered standard practice to have all work completed in-house, more and more companies are looking to freelance employees to complete projects for them. Would it be sensible to hire a permanent employee for a one-off assignment?

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

Hiring Poorly. Make sure that new hires understand your rate of innovation. If you dont manage this expectation upon hiring, you will be managing employee issues six months down the line. Someone told me recently, Any time Im talking to someone who doesnt work for me already, Im evaluating if I should try and hire them.

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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. And while I knew she wouldnt steal it, I needed to be very careful. Oh, and what was the company?

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Here are some three documents you should discuss with your patent attorney or business lawyer before moving from that sketch in your head to making plans for actual production: Working With Outside Partners and NDAs. Non-compete Agreements Before and After Hiring. Casual Work for Hire Agreements. Protect Your Rights.

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Up and Running

JULY 25, 2016

The Hooli CEO wants to know who violated their NDA in leaking the story, and begins to exert pressure on the blogger to give up her source or face a lawsuit for libel. Most NDA violations don’t end with a company acquisition, but they can be costly nonetheless. Unfortunately, that gambit also has unintended consequences.

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www.frozennorth.org

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

If youve read my Cult of the NDA article (which, by the way, remains one of the most-read articles on this blog), then you know that I think good luck and good execution are far more important to success in a startup than a Really Big Idea. They didnt even offer to sign an NDA. They are actively hiring Perl programmers.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Hire a lawyer to help draft an incentive plan with a vesting schedule that fits your business. Once you get some traction, don’t be surprised when you have to hire a lawyer to file a trademark on your logo because people start imitating it. - Russ Oja , Seattle Windows and Construction, LLC. Mutual Non-Disclosure Agreements.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

Hire someone to do a working prototype/proof-of-concept. Sign that person to an NDA if necessary. An NDA – This isn’t a deal-breaker for everyone, but it can be for me, depending on how it’s structured. However, I may be open to a NDA once I hear your initial idea and if the NDA is reasonably structured.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Hire experienced legal counsel. That said, you should recognize that many investors and potential clients will hesitate if you ask them to sign an NDA. Any time you discuss the details of your new business or product with someone, mark it in a log. Make sure you contact someone experienced commercial litigation in your area.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Start-ups often hire at one extreme -- closer to a Lead Developer or VP of Engineering -- whereas corporates may focus on their CIO, which is potentially quite a different role. Dan drew up his thoughts around a job description for a web Chief Technology Officer (or Chief Technical Officer), and invited us to follow suit.

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Software By Rob

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

She asks me to sign an NDA, which I do. I hired a lawyer with experience in IP website acquisitions to draft up a custom agreement. Once she expressed interest in a potential sale I signed an NDA and she provided numbers. I receive a reply from the seller. We begin some email chit chat to find out more about each other.

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www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

We hired three guys from that batch and paid them in iPhones. Treat everyone you hire like a co-founder. It builds trust and earns buy-in from the people you hire. When you’re hiring folks, don’t promise equity upfront. You’ll be the only startup there. This is a corollary to the previous point.

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VC Cafe

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

I don’t want to share my idea because someone might steal it – the benefit of sharing is greater than detriment- investors won’t sign an NDA. I can hire someone else to make sales – It has to be the founders for a while, don’t hurry to hire a salesman.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 29, 2018

I will never forget what you told me in 2008 when I asked your advice on signing a NDA with the VCs before sharing our deck. In reflecting on this lesson since starting data.world, a few thoughts come to mind: I’m very wary of hiring a middle-aged employee that has never worked at a startup before. Yes, it is true?

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Transformify

MARCH 24, 2020

As the legislation across the globe varies a lot when it comes to freelance jobs and hiring freelancers, job seekers need to do their research to understand their status, obligations, etc. while others are comfortable hiring freelancers on the other side of the world. Are you looking to hire remote workers and freelancers?

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Hiring a good team of PHP developers is neither likely nor easy for the non-technical. Like PHP, when hiring Microsoft programmers there’s much to be wary of.NET powers sites of all sizes (though relatively few massive ones) and is very common.NET has some CMS frameworks such as dotnetnuke and Community Server which often distract startups.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The market price is less than the inconvenience of signing an NDA. One of the best tricks I learned during our startup was a rule for deciding who to hire. And when businesspeople try to hire hackers, they cant tell which ones are good.Even other hackers have a hard time doing that. That shows how much a mere idea is worth.

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Scott Edward Walker

APRIL 16, 2014

From the seller’s perspective, the first step in connection with the sale of his company is the negotiation and execution of a confidentiality agreement (sometimes referred to as a “non-disclosure agreement” or an “NDA”) with the potential buyer. on a need-to-know basis. on a need-to-know basis.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

You are here: Home » Hiring » Crazy! Written By Dan Martell on February 2nd, 2012 | Category: Hiring LeanStartup Marketing Metrics Startup Life | 6 Comments. Should I require and NDA? Ability to hire top talent (A+ talent). you can hire for those. www.elance.com and hire from eastern europe.

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

I don't think enough people say that, unfortunately when you one of the things I think particularly marketers are bad at is when they get hired by agencies, particularly when they get hired by a company it's like, what do you need us to do? The only thing I'll get into in, if they want me to sign an NDA, that's fine.

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BeyondVC

MARCH 24, 2006

They raised $1.25b in an instant and that giant sucking sound you heard on Wall Street was LTC hiring the best and brightest minds to its hedge fund. LTC prided itself on hiring PhDs and other brilliant talent to add to the mystique of the group. There are other parallels-Google has an appetite for hiring PhDs.

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venturebeat.com

MARCH 8, 2011

You can’t afford to hire three developers to add features and bugs. I was also searching for a new job and next week I will start work for a new employer and in their NDA I have mentioned the name of my incorporated company as "prior invention/copyright work". You can’t answer emails during normal business hours.

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thestartuplawyer.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Who must be a co founder and who can remain a hired principal? When I find, and hire on options, the three perfect CEs/directors must I consider them co founders and treat them accordingly? Who must be a co founder and who can remain a hired principal? He obviously never launched a startup and got shafted by a co-founder.

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Transformify

JUNE 15, 2021

Defining the onboarding requirements when hiring freelancers. Before hiring freelancers, give a check on their background and the jobs they did. Next, check whether you are planning to sign a contract or NDA. If the freelancers have any professional liability, ask them to let you know in the hiring process itself.

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This is going to be BIG.

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

Anyone who has done a startup has asked on Twitter or a listserv for an employment agreement, NDA, software license agreement, etc. Well, what if we could work together as a community to derive *the* standard employment agreement for hiring a developer--and discuss and debate various terms?

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Transformify

APRIL 4, 2022

If you are looking for a better way to manage and hire your freelancers, service providers and independent contractors, then the first step is to understand what a freelance management system is. It ensures the freelancer contracts and all other legal documents like NDA, IP agreements, data protection etc.

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