Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 21, 2012

Entrepreneurs often get the advice from their lawyers and friends to always get a Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDA or CDA) signed before disclosing anything about their new venture. If you are totally risk-averse, then push to always get signed NDAs. The format of an NDA is simple, and you can download a sample from my website.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 29, 2013

Entrepreneurs often get the advice from their lawyers and friends to always get a Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDA or CDA) signed before disclosing anything about their new venture. If you are totally risk-averse, then push to always get signed NDAs. The format of an NDA is simple, and you can download a sample from my website.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 24, 2011

Entrepreneurs often get the advice from their lawyers and friends to always get a Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDA or CDA) signed before disclosing anything about their new venture. If you are totally risk-averse, then push to always get signed NDAs. The format of an NDA is simple, and you can download a sample from my website.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

Coming up with an idea or inventing a product is a process that takes commitment, dedication, and self-belief. Ultimately, inventing a product or coming up with an idea means one thing: solving a problem, whether it’s your own or someone else’s. What product doesn’t function like people wish it would? Step 5: Protect your idea.

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www.virtuosimedia.com

MARCH 8, 2012

If, by chance, the relationship does survive and the product gets launched, that doesn’t mean that there’s smooth sailing from that point forward. Startup internet projects often arrive slightly buggy at first and if the entrepreneur didn’t take the time to research the market in advance, the product can be dead on arrival.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 30, 2010

Entrepreneurs often get the advice from their lawyers and friends to always get a Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDA or CDA) signed before disclosing anything about their new venture. If you are totally risk-averse, then push to always get signed NDAs. The format of an NDA is simple, and you can download a sample from my website.

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YoungUpstarts

DECEMBER 10, 2015

Sooner or later you will need to bring in a mentor, talk to an advisor, or even pitch to an investor to make the step from concept to viable product. It can designate that the signers cannot share information with a specific third party or it can be a one-way agreement for your outside partner or employee.

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ReadWriteStart

JANUARY 18, 2011

Guest author Chris Heilmann has been a professional Web developer since 1997 and has worked in various agencies and corporations on large, international products. communicating and working together in a sensible way means you can build your products 24/7. Companies keep buying startups with cool products, good ideas and talent.

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Up and Running

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

Unlike a one-way nondisclosure agreement, mutual NDAs are trickier, and it’s recommended to have a lawyer review those types of agreements. The opportunity to use a mutual NDA can arise when starting to work with business development partners. Small Claims Court.

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YoungUpstarts

FEBRUARY 17, 2017

Any time you discuss the details of your new business or product with someone, mark it in a log. Before you discuss your idea with someone, whether they are a manufacturer, a supplier, or a potential business partner, make sure you know who you’re dealing with. Document everything. Hire experienced legal counsel.

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cdixon.org

SEPTEMBER 17, 2011

You’ll learn about competitive products that exist or are being built. You’ll gauge people’s excitement level for the product and for various features. Another benefit of talking freely, is that you may also find potential partners or future employees–other key components beyond investment money.

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Austin Startup

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Bill Wood, founder of Silverton Partners and an early General Partner at Austin Ventures before, said something that got me thinking (quoting from the SiliconHills article ): Because it’s easy to startup a company and doesn’t take a lot of money, Silverton Partners sees more startups forming, Wood said. Yes, it is true?

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NZ Entrepreneur

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Otherwise, a company should never publicly disclose their invention to anyone without a non-disclosure agreement (NDA) until a decision is made to patent the technology and file an initial patent application. Anton Blijlevens is a Partner at AJ Park.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 28, 2013

Asking for an NDA. Trying to raise VC money before product or customers. Having fights with partners in the first year. Going from b t product to services to product to SaaS product. Two of his 100 answers deal directly with how and how not to approach potential investors. ” He says: .

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mashable.com

MAY 28, 2010

There’s a spectrum from descriptive names which speak directly to a product benefit or attribute, to empty vessel names, where it doesn’t mean anything about the product that we’re talking about.&# I'd be happy to sign an nda. View More » Apple 5 Vintage Apple Products That Time Fo.

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Feld Thoughts

MARCH 22, 2015

In Boulder I ran around asking a number of CEOs and Foundry Partners for company management advice—how to run one-on-ones, structure executive meetings, manage my board, etc. You should probably sign an NDA. Foundry Group is a mutual investor of ours, and Jud and I met at an event in Boulder that they organized for portfolio CEOs.

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SoCal CTO

MARCH 4, 2010

20 Required NDA to continue – a nonstarter 50 Couldn’t sell him 15 Couldn’t explain why they wanted him involved In our conversation together, David and I spent a fair bit of time discussing the fact that a lot of people really didn’t know what he could do for them. important planning meetings or partner meetings).

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venturebeat.com

MARCH 8, 2011

Or pick a product in which simplicity and having very few features is an advantage. 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". poteenguzzler Jason, this is a brilliant and honest article.

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grasshopperherder.com

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Don’t Even Ask for an NDA This just makes me laugh. UPDATE: It is of course perfectly reasonable to ask for an NDA before giving away the super secret sauce. As a corollary, cold call a VC and try and get them to sign an NDA before your first meeting. As always, be wise in choosing your business partners. [.]

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www.readwriteweb.com

OCTOBER 7, 2007

Vendor long-list - build a “long-list&# of possible software vendors and NDA them all, but don‚Äôt rely on it (more on this later). But each stage needs to be completed, if you are to reasonably expect a quality product. But producing a professional and slick product costs money. How much will this cost? Nice article.

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ReadWriteStart

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

It includes an NDA (Non-disclosure agreement) that protects confidential information. This document is between business partners for the purpose of finalizing each side’s responsibilities and gains. Featured Image Credit: Rodnae Productions; Pexels; Thank you! Thus, it is vital to understand the importance of contract law.

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BeyondVC

MARCH 24, 2006

In addition, he felt pretty uncomfortable showing up to Google and having to sign an NDA on the spot, and then going into a meeting where people would walk in and out, sit on their laptop and take notes, and not even introduce themselves. Hmmm-it really does sound like Long Term Capital. The post Remember Long Term Capital?

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Duct Tape Marketing

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Productizing that and then scaling it out. Ryan: I think getting stuck in the execution delivery of it, getting stuck in scope, creep, getting like, like I said before, I'm a big product. The only thing I'll get into in, if they want me to sign an NDA, that's fine. I service guy. It doesn't scale for me.

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Both Sides of the Table

JANUARY 11, 2011

Will a VC sign an NDA (non-disclosure agreement)? NDAs would make it impossible to do business. Meet with one person from the firm – partner or associate. Meet with one person from the firm – partner or associate. If you can meet a partner up front it’s always best but sometimes it’s not possible.

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www.metamorphblog.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

The difference between your initial idea and your ultimate product is the difference between a slab of rock and the David. You may or may not have a working product. Your product may or may not suck. What matters is your vision of what the product will be and how it will change the world. Pitch like a mofo.

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maplebutter.com

JANUARY 8, 2013

What is the best advice you can give for finding a business partner? Don’t quickly choose any business partner. Building Product 2. Product/Metrics (70%/30% time) * Get your product activation (sign-up + meaningful action) to 60% * then, Get your product retention to 20% weekly. Should I require and NDA?

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thestartuplawyer.com

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

We entrepreneurs constantly try to refine our product or model, so it is only natural to think that we should refine ourselves. Contact The Startup Lawyer: Home Page About Contact FAQs Glossary Ryan Roberts Law: Home Page Social Networks: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Flickr Delicious Digg Last.FM

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ConversionXL

AUGUST 7, 2019

An Instagram model gushing over a new fashion product seems infinitely remote from strategies they might deploy. Partner with industry experts to co-create content. Even if you don’t have a roster of influencer-users, reach out for a quote about your product or brand. That’s especially true for B2B marketers. Video content.

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Agile VC

APRIL 13, 2012

The kinds of places where you have to sign an NDA when you walk in the lobby… When I lived and worked in the bay area (2000-2005) virtually all the startups were down on the peninsula somewhere. Also all the big anchor companies that a startup might want to partner with at that time (eBay, Google, Oracle, Yahoo!,

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Kodorra

AUGUST 23, 2018

Oh and by the way, typically angel investors don’t sign NDA (non-disclosure agreement), so they are most probably losing out on the cash too. Mistake – Choosing the Wrong Partner or Co-Founder. Your partner is most probably your good-old friend that you feel comfortable hanging out with. Let me guess.

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mashable.com

JUNE 11, 2013

Perhaps the team is working on a product that really isnt that great or useful. Maybe they never thought about product-market fit. Building a product is like packing a suitcase: Plan out what you think you need. The biggest mistake I see is companies waiting too long to release the product. Leave it in the comments.

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www.theverge.com

JUNE 20, 2012

Excuse my French, it was a clusterfuck," Elevation Partners Roger McNamee told the audience as they nibbled their kale salads. "It’s The key for Facebook now is ignoring the naysayers and ignoring the stock price and working on building viable products that take advantage of their assets. BlueContrast. June 19, 2012. Just saying.

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