When Your Former Boss Sues You for Starting a Startup

Re:When Your Former Boss Sues You for Starting a Startup by sandworm101 on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @07:53PM (#10262537)

There are two ways to 'win' a civil suit. Counter their allegations, or assert your own counterclaims. It may be possible to assert that they have taken your trade secrets.

Talk to lawyers. In offices. Not online. Sign a client agreement. Pay them money. Beyond that, you cannot get any reliable advice from anyone here.

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Re:When Your Former Boss Sues You for Starting a Startup by hga on Tuesday September 22, 2015 @07:59PM (#10262558)

There's also the "run out the clock" method, i.e. drain the other company of money, energy, time, etc.

Which appears to be exactly the worst case the plaintiff is imaging per the words he was rather unwise to utter in an all hands meeting (http://www.businessinsider.com/smule-ceo-shred-video-lawsuit...):

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And here's the sad truth. You compare a 100-person company with 10, 30, 40 million dollars in the bank to a two-person startup. If it goes to litigation, if we're wrong, we'll win.

Right? We'll win. We'll put a giant law firm on it and we'll do all of the discovery and we'll do all the depositions and we'll win. And if we're right, we'll still win....

(Note: discovery can be very expensive, and depositions tend to take a lot of time in preparation and the actual deposition.)

Which suggests the defendant isn't entirely insane to try to win this in the court of public opinion, a worst case apparently not imagined heretofore.

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