Shhh! Keep Those Trade Secrets, Secret!

Trade secrets are a vital component of the intellectual property assets of any company. Unlike patents, trademarks, or copyrights, trade secrets cannot be registered with the government. Because they consist of only ideas and information, they are by their very nature easy to steal or misuse. Anything that has been patented or copyrighted cannot qualify as a trade secret since it has already been publicly revealed.

Trade secrets are defined in the Uniform Trade Secrets Act, or UTSA, as information that includes formulas, patterns, programs, devices, compilations of information, methods, techniques, or processes. These must be commercially valuable, not generally known or readily ascertainable, and must be the subject of reasonable efforts to maintain secrecy. Adaptations of the UTSA have been enacted in 45 states. Legal remedies are available in the event of a breach.

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Reality Based Thinking For Entrepreneurs (Red Pill Entrepreneurship)

Introduction

This book is for those individuals contemplating owning or starting a business. Information contained in Red Pill Entrepreneurship is not meant to cast a shadow of pessimism on entrepreneurship. I love and have loved being an entrepreneur, but entrepreneurship is not for everyone. Over the years, I have felt a need to expose the reality of business to those who are wasting away their lives dreaming of having that “little shop” on the side of the road that they think will make them rich. Not to say that it is impossible to become rich from a new business, but it is definitely requires taking a second look. My hope is that you can eagerly join me in recounting a stream of funny stories and broken dreams of multiple entrepreneurs. Understand these stories not as bitter rants of failure, but as grand learning experiences. Learning from such turbulent experiences will facilitate your building of a bigger and brighter future for yourself. In short, setting foot on the right track now will allow you to finally live your dreams, or to change your dreams before it is too late. Be prepared before the hand of reality smacks you senseless.

Your Dream

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3 Excellent Benefits of an Online Trading Course

The advent and continual growth of the Internet as a resource for information has given us the ability to make informed decisions faster and more efficiently. Thanks to the ‘information highway’, one can learn almost anything online these days, from common tasks like tying a bow tie to more financially lucrative opportunities like stock market trading. An online trading course provides anyone interested in trading, online or otherwise, with the essential skills to make the most of the fluctuating nature of the stock market.

Why online, one might ask. Just as the Internet provides the convenience to experienced online traders, it also provides the ease and flexibility to budding traders who might be interested in trying their hand at investing in the myriad of available financial products like foreign exchange, futures, stocks, etc. Inexperienced traders seeking to better educate themselves are able to attend an online trading course at anytime, anywhere, as long as they have access to the World Wide Web. The course material is available 24 hours a day and 7 days a week, and learners are thus able to read and refer to the materials as often as they would like, whenever they would like. What this means is that practically anyone would be able to learn to trade, be it the busy executive seeking to keep constantly well-informed, or the stay-at-home mom who has plenty of time to spare (and perhaps a bit of capital she intends on growing by dabbling in trading).

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