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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. _. Just about anything can be patented : circuits, hardware, software, applied algorithms, formulas, designs, user interfaces, applications, systems. What is Protectable. _. Examples. _.

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Lessons Learned in Diagnostics

Steve Blank

Part 7: Revenue Streams in Life Sciences. In fact, the “must have features” were their future predictive algorithms. It includes reimbursement, regulation, IP, validation, channel access, etc. Part 4: This Will Save us Years – Customer Discovery in Medical Devices. of all the parts of the business model canvas.

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Protect Your Business Plan Like It’s Your Baby—Here’s How

Up and Running

Nearly all businesses, whether they are small or large, are comprised of intellectual property (IP) and trade secrets, which can serve as the foundation for commercial success. The World Intellectual Property Organization defines IP as, “creations of the mind,” which, depending on the business, can take many forms. Algorithms.

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Paywalls, SEO, and the Need for a Damn Good Brand

ConversionXL

If you take a random article on The Washington Post and load it into Google’s Mobile-Friendly Test , you can see that Google has no issue crawling or rendering the content: That’s because the Google Mobile-Friendly Test uses the real Googlebot user agent and IP. You can verify the real Googlebot for your site.). But it’s not easy.

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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. However, the IP climate remains unchanged, and it’s likely that other villains will continue to exploit similar situations.

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26 Entrepreneurs Explain How They Came Up With Their Business Names

Hearpreneur

Several “experts” in marketing and advertising, and IP lawyers, tried to talk me into changing it. After a few years building and refining the software, I knew more about the algorithms Google used to rank pages than just about anybody outside Mountain View. Buttercloth was born. It was just natural. But I stuck to my gut feelings.

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The Intersection of SEO and CRO (and How to Maximize Long Term Growth)

ConversionXL

So they update their algorithms religiously to try to do that. Well, as Google’s algorithms have advanced, the two end up being quite the same. Treat Googlebot just like any other user and don’t hard-code our user-agent or IP address.”. It’s not hurting your revenue. There shouldn’t be a conflict.

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