YoungUpstarts

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

It is important to take steps to protect your intellectual property. A simple way to protect your intellectual property is the hold off on filing a patent. Once a patent is filed, others can create similar products using workarounds without violating any intellectual property rights. Avoid Joint Ownership.

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Hearpreneur

DECEMBER 3, 2017

What exactly is going to be the name of your business? Whatever the inspiration or relation may be, the naming of your business is one of the most important parts of becoming a CEO. Kumo is a Japanese term for spider and was previously the name of an early Microsoft search engine that eventually evolved to become Bing.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 28, 2022

Business agility can also be improved by proactively looking ahead – for new trends and technologies that will likely attract competitors and customers. Public companies usually only come at a premium over value, or even premium on a premium in a bidding war, big brand names, or overconfidence. Optimize your ability to react.

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Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 12, 2019

Secondly, they want to see your competitive analysis of how you stack up to the top players in the space, by name, with quantitative comparisons and customer value. Don’t forget other intellectual property, including trade secrets, trademarks, copyrights, domain names, and your expert publications.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 31, 2014

I’m sure many of you have heard his name. These Key Performance Indicators and processes are what make a company efficient —but they are also the root cause of its inability to be agile and innovative. Let’s start with Joseph Schumpter. Schumpter was an economist who taught at Harvard in the 1930’s and 40’s. Act Like a Startup.

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David Teten

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

I took fairly detailed notes at last night’s panel on ‘ The Future of America’s Innovation Economy Progress and Challenges at the USPTO’ It was sponsored by The Gibbons Institute of Law, Science & Technology; Seton Hall University School of Law; and the New Jersey Intellectual Property Law Association.

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Austin Startup

APRIL 23, 2010

The name gives you a slight window into what they do, but it’s like one click business listening. Stock prices change, people tweet about a company, new job openings are posted, people “fan&# or like Facebook pages, people update their LinkedIn profiles, and Jigsaw information gets updated, just to name a few examples.

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