March 29, 2021

IP rights, NDAs and starting early - the story of Physna by Paul Powers.

IP rights, NDAs and starting early - the story of Physna by Paul Powers.

Paul Powers, Founder & CEO of Physna talks about the beginnings of his career in startups and the challenges he faced. We talk a lot about NDAs, IP rights and how important those are for startup founders. We also touch on how deep-tech startup founders can prevent their IP from being stolen without involving or bothering investors. If you are a deep-tech founder, this episode is for you.

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Physna: https://physna.com/

Find 3D things on thangs: https://thangs.com/

Paul's LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/techlab/

If you would like to know a bit more about Physna here is a tech crunch article about them:

https://techcrunch.com/2021/01/29/three-dimensional-search-engine-physna-wants-to-be-the-google-of-the-physical-world/

Paul Powers

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