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Seeking CEO+team for VC-backed startup: Make America Functional Again

David Teten

Ideally we are looking for team members (full-time and advisory) with DNA from: – tech (especially sales tech, marketing tech, expert networks, B2B2C consumer internet); – communications (especially sales, PR, speechwriting, playwrighting); – public policy, legislative analysis and drafting, and/or policy or legislative advocacy.

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Seeking CEO+team for VC-backed startup: Make America Functional Again

David Teten

Ideally we are looking for team members (full-time and advisory) with DNA from: – tech (especially sales tech, marketing tech, expert networks, B2B2C consumer internet); – communications (especially sales, PR, speechwriting, playwrighting); – public policy, legislative analysis and drafting, and/or policy or legislative advocacy.

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Stealth Mode Startup

www.frozennorth.org

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. AIM Screen Name: DFNfrozenNorth. Categories. Statistics.

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The Importance of Partnership Agreements, NDAs, and Security: Lessons from HBO’s “Silicon Valley”

Up and Running

The plan works, the story is killed off, and series’ nominal villain is left with a PR disaster. 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. Unfortunately, that gambit also has unintended consequences.

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Pick the Perfect Name for Your Startup

mashable.com

I'm working with a PR/Communications gurus who is trying to focus me on a name, that when you hear it, it tells people what it is you are doing. I'd be happy to sign an nda. Brad Friedman This post is extremely helpful and timely, as I am in the midst of struggling to come up with a name for a startup. Eric Axelson Hi brad.

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How To Bootstrap Your Startup

www.readwriteweb.com

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). Functional Specification - write a document called a functional specification; this explains to the developer what each screen in your mock-up does and what every button and link on the mock-up should do.

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How to Start a Startup

www.paulgraham.com

The market price is less than the inconvenience of signing an NDA. If you go to VC firms with abrilliant idea that youll tell them about if they sign a nondisclosureagreement, most will tell you to get lost. That shows how much a mere idea is worth. Almost everyone who worked for us was an animal at what they did.

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