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ConTraps Part II – Contract Traps Entrepreneurs Should Avoid At All Costs

InfoChachkie

Relinquish Press Release Capabilities. The resulting credibility will help you establish future business development and customer relationships. Do Not Relinquish Press Release Capabilities. A unilateral press release is less threatening to the partner, as it is solely issued by your firm and not publicly sanctioned by the BDC.

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What Do Boards Actually Do?

Both Sides of the Table

And of course we help with business development introductions and with fund raising events. But unlike the popular press reporting of this conflict — 80% of the time it is founder-to-founder conflict and not investor-to-founder conflict. Often we are asked to get involved in executive-level recruiting.

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Tilofy: Making Sense Of The World Around You Using Location Data

socalTECH

Prior to Tilofy, I had technical positions at Yahoo, Microsoft, and Samsung, ranging from development, to program management, to senior technology person on Samsung''s smart TV platform. Our mission is to organize all of the world''s real time location information. My degree is from USC in big data.

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ConTraps Part II – Contract Traps Entrepreneurs Should Avoid At All Costs

InfoChachkie

Relinquish Press Release Capabilities. The resulting credibility will help you establish future business development and customer relationships. Do Not Relinquish Press Release Capabilities. A unilateral press release is less threatening to the partner, as it is solely issued by your firm and not publicly sanctioned by the BDC.

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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.? Some resources on this: Intellectual Property is More Than Patents Does My Startup Have Intellectual Property? 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.? Some resources on this: Intellectual Property is More Than Patents Does My Startup Have Intellectual Property? Lots of thoughts here.

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Join The Unicorn Club Of Billion-Dollar Companies

Startup Professionals Musings

If your new venture is still in the idea or development stages, don’t even think about a high valuation. It helps to have a following of loyal advocates in the mainstream press. Patents and other intellectual property are a necessary initial “barrier to entry,” but these are just the beginning.

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