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Non competes are becoming less and less enforceable in the US. I left my old company and wanted to start a competing business in a different vertical in the e-
by pocket_cheese 4y ago
Non competes are becoming less and less enforceable in the US.
I left my old company and wanted to start a competing business in a different vertical in the e-commerce space. What actually stopped me was the privacy and inventions and non disclosure agreements.
Pretty much it prevented me from using any know how I learned while at my last company and disallowed me from using any of the same suppliers and marketplaces to buy and sell on (of which there are few in my business domain).
In my experience, these types of agreements can be the actual thing that stops you from doing your own thing.
- danjoredd 4y agoIn Texas, non-competes are so restricted that employers can barely enforce them. I know people who signed non-competes, went to work for a competitor, and when they were sued the judge threw the case out because the non-compete clause was unenforceable according to Texas Law. It simply said "I agree not to start my own IT business or work for a competing IT business in three years of my departure" without specifying a range of distance that is enforceable.