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Six Criteria for Outsourcing the Right Processes

Startup Professionals Musings

Intellectual property content. Some country cultures have little appreciation for software as intellectual property. Protect your intellectual property. Creative products, like chip design programs, architectural rendering, or consumer games are not easily outsourced. Technology level.

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Six Key Factors in the Right Outsourcing Decision

Startup Professionals Musings

Intellectual property content. Some country cultures have little appreciation for software as intellectual property. Protect your intellectual property. Creative products, like chip design programs, architectural rendering, or consumer games are not easily outsourced. Technology level.

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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.) At one of my entrepreneurship classes at Stanford, Dan Dorosin , of Fenwick & West LLP guest lectures about startups and Intellectual Property. Intellectual Property.

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To Outsource or Not to Outsource Software

Startup Professionals Musings

Intellectual property content. Some country cultures have little appreciation for software as intellectual property. Protect your intellectual property. Creative products, like chip design programs, architectural rendering, or consumer games are not easily outsourced. Technology level.

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Are You An Internet Entrepreneur In Colorado? Oppose PIPA!

Feld Thoughts

This success story rests on an architecture—both technical and legal—that has allowed for innovation without permission. In the area of intellectual property, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) constitutes a sound model of an Internet policy regime that allows for innovation and Internet-based entrepreneurship.

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The Firewall Is Dead – What Can Businesses Do To Protect And Secure Their Brands?

YoungUpstarts

Breaches involving health information, trade secrets, and intellectual property can be devastating for the affected brand. The severity of potential damage tends to depend on the sensitivity of the data exposed – something that Equifax customers recently found out about painfully first-hand. So what can organizations do?

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Cyber Security At The Start

YoungUpstarts

This includes creating the Information Security Program, training on secure development of products, and/or implementing the security architecture of their infrastructure. Hire qualified internal resources or outsource as needed for the required IT positions. Bring on a security-conscious CTO at the beginning.

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