Re: [Discuss] Startup?

2015-03-02 Thread Rich Braun
I'm with Tom Metro on the NDA and intellectual-property topic. The idea itself isn't what's special. Your passion to make it into a business is. Sure, talk to a hopefully-pro-bono lawyer about all this, but building a patent firewall around your idea is $100,000 at minimum between legal fees

Re: [Discuss] Startup?

2015-03-02 Thread Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
From: Discuss [mailto:discuss-bounces+blu=nedharvey@blu.org] On Behalf Of Tom Metro I've been involved with or on the distant periphery of the startup community for several decades, and one of the fastest ways of spotting a novice is the degree to which they are protective of their