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Someone Stole My Startup Idea – Part 3: The Best Defense is a Good IP Strategy

Steve Blank

Early on in my career I took a “we’re moving too fast to deal with lawyers” attitude to patents and Intellectual Property (IP.) Type of IP. _. Copyright gives you the right to prevent others from copying, distributing or making derivatives of your work. Scientific principles or pure mathematical algorithms cannot be patented.

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Approaching The Blockchain With Business

The Startup Magazine

And by having an intimate knowledge of the industry, not to mention tens of thousands of hours as an entrepreneur, Darin believes that he can bring a new beginning for the industry. Blockdraw wants to merge the best available technologies and still have a trustlessness, verifiability, IP protection and security as standard.

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Nuts & Bolts of Intellectual Property for New Startups

Gust

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.

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Small Business and Startups: The Trends for 2014 (Pt II)

crowdSPRING Blog

For instance, Amazon has switched its strategy from their efforts of the last decade to avoid state sales taxes on purchases, to one of building regional, urban warehouses and distribution centers with the goal of getting consumers their stuff within hours of an order being placed. Three economic trends for 2011 (fueled by startup goodness).

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Transcript of Does Everybody Need to Write a Book to Be Successful?

Duct Tape Marketing

” She’s like, “Okay, so if you’re an entrepreneur,” she’s like, “I don’t think you’re an entrepreneur because an actual entrepreneur would help me solve my problem and not lecture me about hard work.” ” I said, “It’s an entrepreneurial dinner.”

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Startups in stealth mode need one piece of advice - Discussion

news.ycombinator.com

Investors are looking for proven entrepreneurs to enter this emerging market and they will get well funded too. What we do on a daily basis is a thousand times more secret than your "stealth" startup and we can still talk about it in more general terms than most "stealth" entrepreneurs talk about their project. This is utter bullshit.

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