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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

Next thing they know it’s too late: They have joined the 80+ percent of startups that find themselves auctioning off their IP for pennies at best, boarding up their doors and joining the ranks of Munchery, Path, Apprenda, Klout and many, many others. But there’s a way to survive – even thrive – in this high-stakes environment.

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How to Improve Profit by an Average of 11.1%

Austin Startup

A 1992 study from the Harvard Business Review found that the right pricing changes can drive revenue and profit improvements faster than any other growth lever — faster than increasing the volume of sales or decreasing costs. At worst you will destroy hard earned revenue and/or profit. The importance of price. Let’s break this down.

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From Agency to Enterprise Software: The Evolution of Buddy Media

This is going to be BIG.

I don’t know exactly when the agency to product transfer happened at Buddy, or at what point you can start calling yourself a software company (when service revenues dip below subscription/license revs?), They try to move more of their revenues to be recurring streams than to be hourly charges to a client.

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How To Choose A VPN Provider: 6 Factors To Consider

YoungUpstarts

It’s most likely down to the poor investment in their server architecture. For instance, while VPNs might have great DNS/IP protection for web browsing and email, when it comes to torrent clients they start leaking information all over the place. There’s no excuse for this. This can be misleading, though.

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How Decisions Define Our Business Destiny

Duct Tape Marketing

So I've got my three year plan and it's mapped out exactly what's gonna happen, you know, 36 months from now where our revenue's gonna be and this is a plan and we're sticking to it. These are all factors that matter. John Jantsch (05:39): All right.

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Progressive Web Apps: What Do Marketers Need to Know?

ConversionXL

Several digital titans— Twitter , Forbes , Uber , Alibaba , AliExpress —have already switched to PWAs, and there’s a growing collection of case studies that show the positive effect of PWAs on marketing KPIs : conversions, revenue, time spent, engagement, re-engagement, leads, etc. Play the 2048 game in your browser.

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