The startup journey for many entrepreneurs begins while still employed by another company. Often without significant personal resources, an entrepreneur may depend on the income from a “day job” to live and to fund a new business. So, the entrepreneur presses on with his or her idea, with the eventual goal of leaving a current [...]
My neighbor is a good guy. Very smart and ambitious. We discuss things. Recently, as he described his new venture to me, he mentioned that he had been using a Non-disclosure Agreement (NDA or Confidentiality Agreement) that he found on the web. I knew that it was time to add a blog entry on this [...]
A few months ago, the multi-billion dollar legal dispute between eBay and the founders of Skype highlighted a legal axiom that is overlooked by small companies all too often: “Own thine intellectual property.” eBay had purchased Skype for billions but, for some unspoken business reason, did not acquire absolute rights to a core component of [...]