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Intellectual Property for Startups in the Real World

Gust

Last month we covered the basics of intellectual property (IP) for startups, including a simple taxonomy, some common issues and related documents for entrepreneurs to use when forming a new startup. How much is it worth investing in cultivating and enforcing an IP portfolio ? Barriers to entry ?

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Scaling lessons learned at Dropbox, part 1

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Another thing that became increasingly useful was to have thousands of custom stats aggregated over thousands of servers graphed. In between the last failover and now, there have been a bazillion code pushes, database schema changes, internal DNS renames, etc. Server times, stuff in the database, etc. App-specific metrics.

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Account-Based Marketing Software & Tools

ConversionXL

Demandbase cross-references its database to find companies that are a good fit. For example, if multiple users from a company (usually identified by IP) are reading about how to reduce their corporate real estate footprint, it may flag that company as a strong prospect for a seller of space management technology. Image source ).

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5 thoughts for startups and small business: numbers count

crowdSPRING Blog

At crowdSPRING we have a database that is fairly easy to query and a process for creating new queries quickly. This data is aggregated in a spreadsheet, which allows a quick update every week. Maybe the strategy is to reduce wait times for customer service requests. In any case, measure, measure, measure. Collect and organize.

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Special: The 56 Israeli Companies Exhibiting in Mobile World Congress 2011

VC Cafe

Allot is a leading provider of intelligent IP service optimization and revenuegeneration solutions based on Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technology, Allot Service Gateway solutions for mobile broadband are compliant with 3G.4G/LTE Logia has the unique combination of being both a content aggregator and a billing aggregator.

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Startup Resources

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From premium paid subscription databases to free tools showcasing new startups and startup maps, The Ultimate Startup Intelligence Tools List is guaranteed to help you get your research done. Plus, their javascript Library is real time so you get notifications on any database update. Need a database/back end solution?

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Crushing It With Competitive Intelligence Analysis: Best Metrics, Reports

Occam's Razor

Switch your IP to the first opportunity from #1. but then ignore them as they are quite useless aggregated at this level. That is the value of querying a database of intentions like Google Trends, you realize how wrong your gut is.). At the minimum, make recommendations for decent sized experiments to validate profitability.

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