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6 Ways To Fund Your Invention

YoungUpstarts

In order to get your invention and business off the ground, you will need to invest time and money on protecting your intellectual property , development, production and marketing. Private investors are not affiliated with any sort of bank, corporate firm or organization that specializes in money lending. Business financing.

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How Universities Can Help Students and Alumni Work in the Tech Industry

David Teten

Everyone wanted to work in finance. Access to University’s Intellectual Property : Office of Cooperative Research. One of the unique provisions of that program was that it was open to people without any NYU affiliation; they just had to work physically at the NYU Future Labs. “CEO is the new Analyst.”.

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Risk Management Analysis: How Boards Can Spot Red Flags

Board Effect

Red flags around political activities can also cross over to other types of risks as they relate to gifts, campaign finance, and ethics. Description of who owns and can use any intellectual property connected with the agreement. Protect your nonprofit’s intellectual property by registering trademarks and copyrights.

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VCs eating our own dog food: Using technology and analytics to make better investments

David Teten

Some notable metrics are revenue growth rates, free cashflow, leverage ratios, historical financing amounts, returns on marketing spend, customer acquisition costs, lifetime value of customers, customer churn rates, and team social scores. I’m an investor in this company, via ff Venture Capital, HOF Capital, and/or an affiliate thereof.

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Strategy Roundtable For Entrepreneurs: A View Into Israeli Start-ups

ReadWriteStart

Israel Startup Network (ISN), led by Arlene Marom, one of our affiliate partners, organized the event with us. I advised him to get a couple of banks to finance the development of his solution as service projects, with the understanding that he will build a product out of them.

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Startup Tools

steveblank.com

Managewith.us - Collaborative Task Manager Mavenlink - manage project communications, documents, schedules, budgets, payments Industrial Logic – Agile eLearning Misc Office Help Google Apps – cloud mail server, calendar, docs, etc.

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Startup Resources

www.vccafe.com

affiliate and referral marketing on the web. easy business finance software. YCombinator Series AA Equity Financing Documents. Intellectual Property Law For Startups Blog. Startup Threads. Videos/presentations. SlideShare. Haiku Deck. GoAnimate *. Customer service. Get Satisfaction. Event platforms. Eventbrite.