Startup Professionals Musings

JULY 7, 2011

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 happened to RIM (Research In Motion) , and cost them nearly $650M to recover.

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Startup Professionals Musings

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

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.

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 10, 2012

They just cost money, so a lot of cash-strapped startups decide to put them off until "later.". If some other company steals your intellectual property, your dreams can give way to lights out, a phone call to the lawyer, and "Who wants some vodka in their Red Bull?". "IP The problem is, these steps are obvious, too.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

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.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 29, 2010

Even after your application is accepted, the issuing process takes a lifetime in today’s technology (2-5 years). Moreover, patent law in most countries says that software “algorithms” aren't patentable. So lawyers routinely frame a software algorithm as a "system and method" to meet the criteria. Marty Zwilling.

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Gust

NOVEMBER 18, 2012

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.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

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.

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Transformify

JULY 23, 2018

Powerful matching algorithms are used to allocate the projects and ensure a stringent and high-quality evaluation process. The good news is that startups from all sectors of the economy can apply and leverage on novel combinations of existing business models and technologies. What is your intellectual property policy?

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The Next Web

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Today, with the decentralising nature of the Internet, distributed cloud technology and a growing sentiment toward entrepreneurship, the global startup ecosystem has never been so dispersed. Perhaps it’s a complex algorithm of all of the above? What’s the magic formula that helps a city to incubate innovation? Pune, India?.

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Prior to crowdSPRING, I was producer and production manager in the film and television industry and Ross was an attorney in private practice specializing in intellectual property. After paying moving costs and rent I was left with less than $50 in my bank account. Thanks to Chloe Smith, Forty8Creates. #16

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news.ycombinator.com

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

If it is obvious and easy to do (A), then I would conclude that there was no technological advantage, no technological barrier to entry, and would would have to look for a special reason to try. Details: So, at the beginning of his post, to him an idea is something worth protecting as intellectual property.

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Steve Blank

MAY 17, 2022

The Department of Defense has thought that Artificial Intelligence is such a foundational set of technologies that they started a dedicated organization- the JAIC – to enable and implement artificial intelligence across the Department. These technologies will transform businesses and government agencies. But What Is It?

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Start Up Blog

JUNE 6, 2019

I’m a self confessed lover of technology and how empowering it can be. I make my career from evangelising the benefits of technology and I wrote my first lines of code on a 16k RAM-only computer, way before any of this was trendy. A new commodity which has been brought into the market by technology firms, priced and sold.

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Seeing Both Sides

MAY 11, 2012

At the start of my career as an enterprise software product manager, I was trained to think about the impact of disruptive, horizontal technologies and innovation on vertical industries. The young company was recently in the news for the release of their latest underwriting algorithm.

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