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How To Use Partnerships To Grow Your Business

YoungUpstarts

They also have very limited avenues to vertically or horizontally scale up their businesses. Together, you can offer a much wider array of services and increase your territories significantly as compared to what you and your partner could have achieved independently.

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

Steve Blank

The initial hypothesis for Epiphany (from my much smarter partner Ben ) was that as departments in the enterprise (manufacturing, finance, customer support sales) became automated, the marketing department would eventually get its turn. We consciously didn’t ask potential customers to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA).

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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] Stan James.

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