Algorithm Cost Intellectual Property Technical Review 
Gust
DECEMBER 22, 2011
Having covered all the bases to ensure that your corporate name is available, the domain name can be acquired, and the name doesn’t infringe any existing trademarks (as we discussed last week ), now is a good time to look at the categories of intellectual property (IP) that are relevant to most startups. Intellectual property.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 27, 2014
Even after your application is accepted, the issuing process takes a lifetime in today’s technology (4-5 years). Software technology changes rapidly. Moreover, patent law in most countries says that software “algorithms” aren''t patentable. This hit RIM (Research In Motion) a few years ago, and cost them $650M to recover.
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Gust
OCTOBER 19, 2014
Even after your application is accepted, the issuing process takes a lifetime in today’s technology (4-5 years). Software technology changes rapidly. Moreover, patent law in most countries says that software “algorithms” aren’t patentable. This hit RIM (Research In Motion) a few years ago, and cost them $650M to recover.
Startup Professionals Musings
OCTOBER 19, 2015
I usually envision a 50-50 ownership split for their efforts, but every engineer believes the technology side deserves the majority share. If you consider yourself a technologist, you probably believe and may be propagating one of the following myths: The first priority for funding should be to develop the technology.
Steve Blank
DECEMBER 10, 2009
Early on in my career I took a “we’re moving too fast to deal with lawyers” attitude to patents and Intellectual Property (IP.) At one of my entrepreneurship classes at Stanford, Dan Dorosin , of Fenwick & West LLP guest lectures about startups and Intellectual Property. Intellectual Property.
YoungUpstarts
JANUARY 30, 2015
by Jack Narcotta, Devices Analyst at Technology Business Research. While TBR expects margin growth to be uneven through 2015, revenue and gross profit will continue to increase, due to the ability of its advertising business to monetize the proliferation of mobile devices and maintain its dominance in desktop search.
K9 Ventures
APRIL 27, 2011
As a two person team Arlo and AJ built out the whole site and the back-end technology — and built it to scale — at one point they did a A/B test on Zappos and were easily able to handle all the traffic coming to the Zappos test site while being able to show results from the enormous Zappos inventory.
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