Steve Blank
DECEMBER 10, 2009
Or it can be your brand , logo or domain name. Contract, NDA. _. Red flags: Start of sales effort, Price list, price quotation, Trade show demonstration, Any demonstration not under NDA. You need a plan for trademarks, copyright, trade secrets, contracts/NDA’s and patents before you get funded. Trade Secrets. _.
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 7, 2009
As we were out looking for our Series B round, our company had gotten the attention of “name of big VC firm here” who wanted a play in enterprise software. 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. Are These Your Slides?
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David Teten
AUGUST 7, 2019
Today, some Momentum-centric venture capital investors have high paper returns. Simple reason: most of them have known only a rising market in their careers, and in such a market the companies that are already hot can usually raise more capital and force growth. Remember how they all said they wouldn’t sign an NDA?
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. Your sell sheet should include: Your product name. A benefit statement.
This is going to be BIG.
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
In fact, there’s little written about some of the behavioral norm stuff, so while you can read endless articles about SAFEs vs convertible notes, how are you supposed to find out that putting LLC next to your company name in a pitch pretty much kills your fundraising. But that’s the name of my company!” Doing so is just a little “off”.
www.frozennorth.org
SEPTEMBER 16, 2011
AIM Screen Name: DFNfrozenNorth. The cult of the NDA. 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. Why the cult of the NDA? Categories.
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. I know, Chris.
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