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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.) The assets you can protect may include your “core technology&# like source code, hardware designs, architectures, processes, formulas. Type of IP. _. Or it can be your brand , logo or domain name.

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Traversing No-Man’s Land, The Go-To-Market Phase

YoungUpstarts

In the first post , we drilled down into the often-overlooked notion of “market-engineering” and why it’s so critical. This is a key part of the market-engineering process — although strictly speaking it’s part of the go-to-product phase. As you develop your product, you must concurrently invest in market-engineering tasks.

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18 Top A/B Testing Tools Reviewed by CRO Experts

ConversionXL

There are a lot of available configuration options, for example you can add multiple filters such as user IP address, localisation or cookie values. The test segmenting features are very robust, actions can be triggered by device, ip, cookie, audience type and at specific times of day allowing us to test whatever we want, when we want.’

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Lying on your resume

Steve Blank

Steve, the VP of Sales and Marketing previously ran their engineering department. Most of the sales force were previously design engineers. I can barely recall the other people I met, (my potential boss the VP of Marketing, interviews with various engineers, etc.) There was a long silence on the other end of the phone.

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How Decisions Define Our Business Destiny

Duct Tape Marketing

Steve McKee (08:08): I spoke to the roadway engineer who literally wrote the book on roadway turns and he educated me. And he says that what engineers reali recognize that it's better to have a number of shorter turns in a row for a driver than to have straightaway and then interrupted by a big turn.

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How Can FinTech Industry Successfully Navigate the Complex Web of Cybersecurity

The Startup Magazine

Rate limiters govern the frequency or quantity of user or IP requests, which helps to prevent distributed denial of service attacks. As a result, financial app security solutions must have quality assurance engineers and regular testing. DDoS A DDoS attack occurs when hackers attempt to flood a website or application with traffic.

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Progressive Web Apps: What Do Marketers Need to Know?

ConversionXL

We all know how a website works—the codebase is stored on a server, and any person can access it via their browser by typing in the domain name or direct IP address. As with any website, PWAs have URLs and can be crawled and indexed by the search engines. The faster load times keep search engines and users happy. Accessibility.

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