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8 Myths Technologists Believe That Sink Businesses

Startup Professionals Musings

That’s why I recommend that they find a co-founder who loves business challenges, including marketing and finance. The best technologies are barely invisible and low cost. The right marketing efforts can cost as much as the technology. Intellectual property is a business issue, not a technical issue.

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Why you should pay attention to these 8 emerging tech hubs

The Next Web

Perhaps it’s a complex algorithm of all of the above? Despite its recent financial crisis, the WIPO cites Cyprus as a country showing great potential in intellectual property and technology output. Lower taxes and living costs, in comparison to its English neighbour, are what urged this move originally. Dublin, Ireland.

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5 Things Startups Can Learn from Angel Investors

Up and Running

This is a very important concept: Scalable means a business can ramp up, increase its volume enormously, without increasing its fixed costs proportionately. Patents can protect inventions, formulas, and algorithms. See Also: Intellectual Property: How Do You Protect Your Creations? Lesson 5: Rapid growth costs money.

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10 Rules of Thumb for Startup Investment Valuation

Startup Professionals Musings

Assign real value to intellectual property. NewCo has filed a patent on one of their software tool algorithms, which is very positive, and puts them several steps ahead of others who may be venturing into the same area. If you are still losing money, skip ahead to the cost approach. This one doesn’t help NewCo just yet.

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10 Ways to Size Your Company’s Value for Funding

Startup Professionals Musings

Assign real value to intellectual property. NewCo has filed a patent on one of their software tool algorithms, which is very positive, and puts them several steps ahead of others who may be venturing into the same area. If you are still losing money, skip ahead to the cost approach. This one doesn’t help NewCo just yet.

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The investment that didn’t happen

K9 Ventures

It was a team of two sharp Computer Science PhDs, they had core new technology in the form of the algorithms they ran in the back-end, and also core new technology when it came to the display of information. In August/September 2009, the founders and I agreed to work together to raise a round of financing for the company.

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10 Rules of Thumb for Startup Investment Valuation

Gust

Assign real value to intellectual property. NewCo has filed a patent on one of their software tool algorithms, which is very positive, and puts them several steps ahead of others who may be venturing into the same area. If you are still losing money, skip ahead to the cost approach. This one doesn’t help NewCo just yet.

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