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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy

Steve Blank

software, songs, movies, web site content. _. non-public technology. A contract is a binding legal agreement that is enforceable in a court of law. a Non Disclosure Agreement gives you certain rights to protection of your confidential information.) Examples. _. Trademark. _. Branding (i.e. Nike swoosh). _.

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

Startup Reality Distortion #3: The Fallacy Of the Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) Don’t rely on an NDA to protect the truly “secret” stuff. The reality is that Stealth is defined differently in each case. It’s likely not going to give you the protection you think it is.

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NDA Stealth Mode and Sharing Your Startup Concept

SoCal CTO

Startup Reality Distortion #3: The Fallacy Of the Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) Don’t rely on an NDA to protect the truly “secret” stuff. The reality is that Stealth is defined differently in each case. It’s likely not going to give you the protection you think it is.

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Nuts & Bolts of Intellectual Property for New Startups

Gust

Today, it can sign one deal with a cloud service provider such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) to replace all of the above. After eliminating all of these types of assets, what remains? Intellectual property. Second in importance only to talented people, IP in all its forms is the key asset comprising most of the value of any tech startup.

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

Steve Blank

We consciously didn’t ask potential customers to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA). It is web-based, fast and easy and soon to may be available on the iPhone. making use of non disclosure agreement is both expensive and counter productive. (Welcome to the Internet bubble.)

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Protecting Your Business Idea

YoungUpstarts

Anytime you decide to bring in someone who does not have a stake in your business idea you should have them sign a binding Non Disclosure Agreement or NDA before you tell them or show them a thing. The document is an agreement between the two of you to keep confident everything about the business.

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HOW TO: Build an App for Your Small Business

mashable.com

So, you’re a small or medium-sized business, and you want to build a Facebook, mobile or web app. Here’s a quick overview of the ins and outs of getting web work done as an SMB — as always, with tight budgets in mind. Do a web search to find platform-specific tools.