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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 2: They Raised Money With My.

Steve Blank

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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Why you shouldn’t keep your startup idea secret

cdixon.org

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. link] Nivi.

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How To Use Partnerships To Grow Your Business

YoungUpstarts

With a growing number of budding entrepreneurs and small business enterprises spreading across the globe, there is intense competition in every industry you can name. They also have very limited avenues to vertically or horizontally scale up their businesses.

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