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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? Beyond that, I want lots of conversations with experts, users, customers, VCs, partners, etc. Lots of thoughts here.

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

One of the readers asked my opinion around sharing your startup concept: My first question has always been - how do you protect your idea while shopping around for feedback, partners, developers, etc.? Beyond that, I want lots of conversations with experts, users, customers, VCs, partners, etc. Lots of thoughts here.

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5 Ways To Protect Your Idea From Theft

YoungUpstarts

Why go deep into how your budding brainchild operates when you can simply achieve this by explaining to the client or investor what it does? Non-Disclosure Agreements – A non-disclosure agreement helps to protect your idea by committing all the parties you are working with to confidentiality.

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The Ultimate Inventor’s Guide to Inventing Things

Up and Running

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. Your price may affect business operations. The non-disclosure agreement (NDA).

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Basic IP Tips Every Entrepreneur Should Know

YoungUpstarts

After all, building a business by marketing your idea, finding partners, hiring contractors and seeking financing all create opportunities for your idea to be stolen. Remember, though, that copyright protection is limited to the same form of expression and not does not extend to the underlying facts, ideas, or methods of operation.

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Create your IP strategy early to avoid common pitfalls

NZ Entrepreneur

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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How To Find A Technical Cofounder For Your Online Business Idea

www.virtuosimedia.com

Don’t forget to factor in operating overhead including accounting, legal, insurance, etc. If your presentation is compelling and detailed enough, you might be able to get them to become a full partner. Inflexibility – If you are bringing me on as a partner, I become equally interested in seeing it succeed.