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How to Outsource Everything in Product Creation to Get to Market Faster (artofthekickstart.com)
10 points by remotorboater on Oct 31, 2014 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



Be careful of plagarism when using freelancers. I crowdsourced a logo along with its incorporation in various essential designs, which ended up with components of the logo having been ripped off of a company well known to people in Europe, but not USA where I am.

The startup the designs were originally for closed, but I found out years later when trying to reuse them in a similarly names new startup. It was an 'SSS' logo.

I wasn't able to trademark my designs, & am out $5k, being that it's not worth hiring an attorney to chase basically just enough to pay the attorney.

The NY attorney general couldn't help since it was a contract with designers rather than a company.


Shit that sucks man. Yeah I guess there are a lot of instances where you really have to be careful.

What are you up to now?




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