QuestionsCategory: Web Design & DevelopmentAs a WordPress web designer; Should I sign an NDA for my clients startup? The client insist, and wants me to sign, but it's just a basic website with 5 pages.
Anonymous asked 2 years ago

As a WordPress web designer; Should I sign an NDA for my clients startup? The client insist, and wants me to sign, but it’s just a basic website with 5 pages.

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Admin Staff answered 2 years ago

Startups are basically banking on the fact that they have a unique strategic advantage that they want to protect. Either they are doing an old thing in a new and better way, or they are proposing to do something that has not been done before. So they want you to sign an NDA because they think they have valuable information to protect which, if divulged indiscriminately, would undermine their advantage. That information might be a unique business process, proprietary technical information or research, sensitive information about their own clients, etc.

In the end, it doesn’t matter so much whether you think it is necessary if your client does think so. The deck is stacked against startups, and so they want to stack things as much in their favor as possible. There are very few things they can control, but the recipe for their “special sauce” is one of them.

I do suggest, however, that you sign the NDA before you sign a contract (which your client will probably insist on anyway). That way you can evaluate whether you feel good about working with them before you are obligated to.

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