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6 Guidelines For How And When To Use Non-Disclosures

Startup Professionals Musings

Disclosures relative to patents. Entrepreneurs should never disclose the details of a planned or current patent application to any outsiders, even with a CDA in place. Product details in the public domain can never be patented. There are many samples available from known sources, including this one from my website.

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6 Tips For When And How To Disclose Your Startup Idea

Startup Professionals Musings

Disclosures relative to patents. Entrepreneurs should never disclose the details of a planned or current patent application to any outsiders, even with a CDA in place. Product details in the public domain can never be patented. There are many samples available from known sources, including this one from my website.

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8 Errors To Avoid In Your First Minute With Investors

Startup Professionals Musings

In that critical first minute, no one needs to hear that you have a passionate dream of changing the world, introducing new disruptive technology, or a product with more features than competitors. For example, “I have patented a new tire that will double the wear mileage at half the cost.”

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Non-Disclosures Can Protect Your Idea, Or Destroy It

Startup Professionals Musings

Disclosures relative to patents. Entrepreneurs should never disclose the details of a planned or current patent application to any outsiders, even with a CDA in place. Product details in the public domain can never be patented. There are many samples available from trusted sources, including this one from Entrepreneur.

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Interview with Mike Neshat, RFaxis

socalTECH

For starters, let's talk about your technology. Our technology we have just introduced, is the first and only single chip, single die BiCMOS front end in the world. How much of an advantage does your chipset offer over existing technology, and how does it compare over existing levels of integration? Ghz wireless market.

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The Smartest Entrepreneurs Bootstrap Their Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

In today’s Internet world, enterprising entrepreneurs have found that they can find out and do almost anything they need, from incorporating the company to filing patents, without expensive consultants, or the cost to hiring and firing employees. Of course, every company needs these, in due time. Need expensive resources up front.

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Interview with Joe Fisher, Contour Energy

socalTECH

Earlier this month, Azusa-based CFX Battery , a stealthy battery technology spinout from Caltech, announced it had raised a new round of funding worth $14.2M. This week, the firm announced that it was renaming itself Contour Energy (www.contourenergy.com)--and said it was ready to talk about what its battery technology is all about.

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