Hi Folks, The last few days I have noticed a thread on the list regarding inventions, ideas, patents, ETC.
I work for a company who assists entrepreneurs with securing: business startup, expansion, recapitalization and invention funding. Here are a few general rules that our business development team share with every client. No matter how simple or mundane you think your idea, get a signed confidentiality agreement before you talk about the idea with anyone. Have a well written comprehensive business plan in place before you attempt to secure funding or market your product, service or idea. Make certain that any potential attorney, accountant, funder, manufacturer or in some cases a specialty material supplier who will be directly involved with your business signs both a confidentiality and non-competition agreement before sharing any part of your business idea or your written business plan. Every year we hear horror stories about some hapless entrepreneur who either trusted the wrong person or let some bit of crucial bit of information slip and had their product or idea stolen. Hope all of this makes sense and helps someone out. Larry [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
