I would suggest that asking a mentor to sign an NDA is inappropriate. You are already asking the mentor to do you a significant favor by providing ongoing advice and guidance. To then ask a mentor to sign a legal document is placing an unfair burden on the mentor.
The two solutions are to either (a) find a mentor you can trust with confidential information or (b) keep your "secret sauce" information private until you have created others barriers to entry.
Thank you for your thoughts. Definitely holding back the secret sauce is a good idea. Also, I am fairly far along in the project development which I hope the momentum will create at least a small barrier.
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I would suggest that asking a mentor to sign an NDA is inappropriate. You are already asking the mentor to do you a significant favor by providing ongoing advice and guidance. To then ask a mentor to sign a legal document is placing an unfair burden on the mentor.
The two solutions are to either (a) find a mentor you can trust with confidential information or (b) keep your "secret sauce" information private until you have created others barriers to entry.
Thank you for your thoughts. Definitely holding back the secret sauce is a good idea. Also, I am fairly far along in the project development which I hope the momentum will create at least a small barrier.
Your secret sauce is probably less secret and less saucy than you think :)