messerb5467@alien.topBtoStartups•How careful should I be to not "disclose" the IP of my software startup and risk not being able to patent in future?English
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10 months agoWith customers and investors, you can be open about what it does, but not how it does it. As a software engineer, I’ll only ask about internals insofar around proper due diligence to ensure everything is copacetic.
One example of this is I met a guy who automated cold calling. I ensured they didn’t use LinkedIn because of the platform’s stringent requirements and poked around how I would work with it questions, but I don’t need to know about their custom AI for instance. Definitely would have been cool to know as a nerd, but I don’t have a need or right to know
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