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Just don't work for a company that insist on b and c. I have lot of friends in SV who make iphone apps on the side.

• alok-g 13y ago
  My bet is that they are doing it in spite of their employment contracts, as opposed to the contracts allowing them to do those projects. Let me know in case you check with them. This usually works out because most (statistically) will never make enough money to be a target of a lawsuit. I am currently full time on my projects, so do not have such legal issues anymore. When I did, I had started looking around to find out which companies have better contracts and who all people do not have such issues. It was largely an empty set. One big-name company had the contract optional with the condition that if you do not sign it when joining, you do not get bonus/stocks in the company during performance reviews (only the base salary and benefits). I had also posed these questions to several wannabe founders as well as a few successful ones at YC Startup School and elsewhere. Nearly all people in the first category had never read their contracts ever, while the people in the second category became tight-lipped right away and diverted the question. One from the latter category told me that incoming lawsuits are commonplace for his company but that I should not worry about them because lawsuits come only after the company also gets some money to deal with them.