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1. Discuss with your employer to get the clause revised
2. Validate anyway
3. Change jobs to one without the clause
4. Give up on the idea
If you speak to your employer and they don't budge, make clear it's a quitting matter, unless you'd rather just forget the idea.
I see a few potential options: 1. Discuss with your employer to get the clause revised 2. Validate anyway 3. Change jobs to one without the clause 4. Give up on the idea If you speak to your employer and they don't budge, make clear it's a quitting matter, unless you'd rather just forget the idea.
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Can you explain a bit about the Paddle thing and not needing to incorporate?
Merchant of Record services mean that when someone "buys" something from you (e.g. subscription or other product) they're actually legally interacting in all ways that matter with the MoR. Effectively you can think of it as a mostly transparent re-seller. The MoR (e.g. Paddle) is buying the subscription from me and selling it to you. Because I'm never actually interacting with the customers for payments I don't need…
i would recommend just keep looking at how to make sales. without customers you don't have a business.
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Merchant of Record services mean that when someone "buys" something from you (e.g. subscription or other product) they're actually legally interacting in all ways that matter with the MoR. Effectively you can think of it as a mostly transparent re-seller. The MoR (e.g. Paddle) is buying the subscription from me and selling it to you. Because I'm never actually interacting with the customers for payments I don't need…
Is this like Gumroad as well?
The book The Mom Test also points out well that lots of people will say your idea is good even when they have no intention of buying. They don't want to be assholes so they lie to you to make you feel good.
The real question is, how often are you signing away all of your intellectual property to your employer. Honestly, I've never had that in a single contract.
I see a few potential options: 1. Discuss with your employer to get the clause revised 2. Validate anyway 3. Change jobs to one without the clause 4. Give up on the idea If you speak to your employer and they don't budge, make clear it's a quitting matter, unless you'd rather just forget the idea.
horrible advice. there's no where on earth this will be accepted and defeats the OP's requirement of being employed WHILE validating an idea. 1. would get you sued