Founders must never use employer laptops for side projects
Scott Kupor · How to Raise Money from a Venture Investor · Jun 14, 2019 · at 4:00
Scott Cooper, partner at Andreessen Horowitz, explains best practices for employed entrepreneurs to prevent corporate employer IP claims on new startup projects.
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“So our best advice on this stuff is, look, if you've got a great idea number one, you know, don't ever use your work laptop for any of these things, right? So have some physical separation, and you know, when you really get to the point where you feel like, okay, now it's really, this is a real thing, you know, either take a leave of absence from your company, quit your company, do whatever you do, because the last thing you want to do is find that you've come up with this wonderful idea, but you've just been sloppy, and all of a sudden, you know, you just can't find a way to commercialize it anymore, you know.”
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