{"id":489,"date":"2014-01-21T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/novicenolonger.com\/?p=489"},"modified":"2014-01-15T14:34:45","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T19:34:45","slug":"should-you-ask-your-investor-to-sign-an-nda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/novicenolonger.com\/should-you-ask-your-investor-to-sign-an-nda\/","title":{"rendered":"Should you ask your investor to sign an NDA?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a common question among first-time entrepreneurs: Should I ask [insert person here] to sign a Disclosure Agreement? These &#8220;idea people&#8221; think they have a highly profitable idea, and want to make sure it&#8217;s protected before talking to anyone.<\/p>\n<p>When someone asks my opinion on whether they should present an NDA to a potential investor or mentor, I have one emphatic reply:\u00a0<strong>No. No no no. No no no no no no no. NO.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I made a video to explain why.<!--more--><\/p>\n<div class=\"media-wrap\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ny3kTLar2J4?rel=0\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p><em>Note: Obviously don&#8217;t take my advice over a lawyer&#8217;s.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<div style=\"display: block !important; margin:0 !important; padding: 0 !important\" id=\"wpp_popup_post_end_element\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a common question among first-time entrepreneurs: Should I ask [insert person here] to sign a Disclosure Agreement? These &#8220;idea people&#8221; think they have a highly profitable idea, and want to make sure it&#8217;s protected before talking to anyone. When someone asks my opinion on whether they should present an NDA to a potential investor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[24,103],"tags":[4,109,108,106,110,107,105,104,51],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p46r0N-7T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/novicenolonger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/novicenolonger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/novicenolonger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novicenolonger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novicenolonger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=489"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/novicenolonger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":506,"href":"https:\/\/novicenolonger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/489\/revisions\/506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/novicenolonger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novicenolonger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/novicenolonger.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}