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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.? "We are doing something in mobile advertising." Lots of thoughts here. " Ummm. "Good luck with that."

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The Master Checklist of EVERYTHING You Need to Start a Business

Jason Nazar

Ensure your business name is available on a wide variety of social networking websites in order to develop consistent branding ( KnowEm ). Get paid online ads, such as Google AdWords and Facebook Advertising. Go mobile and consider app development. Reach out to relevant newspapers and press. Insurance. .

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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.? "We are doing something in mobile advertising." Lots of thoughts here. " Ummm. "Good luck with that."

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This Week in VC Episode 6 with @Jason Calacanis: Best One Yet

Both Sides of the Table

The following was available: “I kept hearing about startups that raised VC funding, but which hadn’t filed Form Ds (nor issued a press release). We spoke about employment contracts for entrepreneurs – We talked about “change of control&# provisions in your contract and how to negotiate them.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: The Kool-Aid Test: “Why do I need anything? Why do I need yours? Why do I need it now?"

Frank Addante

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

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Twiistup 007: Final Showoff's Additional Speakers and TZ Discount

Tech Zulu Event

He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming(Waite Group Press, 1996). Although Catalyst folded with the dot-com crash, Ries continued his entrepreneurial career as a Senior Software Engineer at There.com, leading efforts in agile software development and user-generated content. . Paul Grahm.

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Frank Addantes FounderBlog: Startup 5.0 – I’m just going to chill out for a bit… (OK, for a month…)

Frank Addante

► February (1) Building and Developing an A++ Team ► 2008 (14) ► December (1) Develop a Culture Roadmap ► November (2) Green Week - Save the Environment and Your Cash Creating a Culture of Innovation: Cultural Values. Outsourcing ► April (1) GoogleClick - Who owns your cash register? Startup 3.0:

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