{"id":2942,"date":"2023-03-31T01:45:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-31T01:45:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/5-pieces-of-etiquette-for-startups-approaching-advisors-2\/"},"modified":"2023-03-31T01:45:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-31T01:45:43","slug":"5-pieces-of-etiquette-for-startups-approaching-advisors-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/5-pieces-of-etiquette-for-startups-approaching-advisors-2\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Pieces of Etiquette for Startups Approaching Advisors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re coming upon the end of the year and a lot of people are planning to take the next steps toward starting a company. I can\u2019t back that with statistics, but as a guy running a marketing agency, I\u2019ve been having a lot of meetings with startup founders who would like help and advice. I rarely have a problem taking a little time to talk with someone about an idea, but there are a few pieces of etiquette you should adhere to when approaching any potential partners or advisors. Don\u2019t have an NDA waiting Startups asking everyone they come in contact with to sign an NDA has been covered to excess, by everyone from VC\u2019s to developers, but I\u2019m going to say it again: &nbsp;DO. NOT. ASK. ANYONE. TO. SIGN. AN. NDA. BEFORE. YOU. MEET. Non disclosure agreements have a time and a place. When you have money, trade secrets, or information that, if released, could reasonably cause your business harm, that makes sense. When your idea is barely past the scribbles on a napkin stage, it\u2019s not time to ask everyone to sign an NDA. If a company has revenue and legitimate trade secrets, I\u2019ll sign. If you\u2019re asking me to meet with you to talk about an idea that isn\u2019t new, has no technology, no legal structure, no revenue and no ip other than a simple idea, I will not take the meeting unless your name is Prince. To rephrase: Your concept for a search engine for real&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.masonpelt.com\/5-pieces-of-etiquette-for-startups-approaching-advisors\/\">5 Pieces of Etiquette for Startups Approaching Advisors<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re coming upon the end of the year and a lot of people are planning to take the next steps toward starting a company. I can\u2019t back that with statistics,&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[449,451,300,450,114,448,452,12,295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}