Startup Professionals Musings

AUGUST 13, 2016

It never hurts to start networking personally with all levels of investors early, but sending out teasers and business plans to every name you can find on the Internet is a waste of your time and theirs. Future opportunity size doesn’t count in the early stages. Contrary to popular opinion, all investor money is not the same.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 18, 2014

As in the first part of this series, I’m in good company – I’m joined in Founders School by Noam Wasserman of Harvard teaching Founder’s Dilemmas , Craig Wortmann University of Chicago covering Entrepreneurial Selling , Peter McDermott helping understand Intellectual Property , and Nathan Gold offering how to give Powerful Presentations.

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Up and Running

MAY 1, 2014

You’ve reviewed what a business plan is , and why you need one to start and grow your business. It’s time to dig into the process of actually writing a business plan. In this step-by-step guide, I’ll take you through every stage of writing a business plan that will actually help you achieve your goals.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 29, 2014

A venture feasibility study analyzes an idea from several perspectives: market opportunity, competition, resources available, resource gaps, financial viability, operational issues, intellectual property rights, development timeline and technology needs. Contracting with the federal government is not the only option available.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Now you can match a big company with worldwide reach for a few thousand dollars. It’s a new age for aspiring entrepreneurs, where anyone with a dream or a hobby should be turning it into a business. Create a business plan online, but don’t wait for funding. Create and register intellectual property online.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

Building a business plan is a discipline every entrepreneur needs to learn early, required or not. Define a business entity early to manage taxes and intellectual property. Tax status can be assigned separately to match your preferences. New intellectual property should always be assigned to a business.

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YoungUpstarts

MARCH 22, 2019

It’s time to move your start-up to the next phase of your business plan, but how do you do that? You don’t want to turn it into a bidding war, but there’s never anything wrong with asking for price matching. With all the hope and confidence in the world, you started a company. And guess what?

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2016

Poorly written or missing business plan. If you recently sold your last startup for $800 million, you probably don’t need a business plan at all to get money for your next startup. Team not a good match for the challenge. Outside investors bet more on the team than the solution.

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Up and Running

JULY 2, 2014

of our company in exchange for the $300K, and my business partner and I each diluted from 50% ownership down to 33.3% One group of angels was interested in investing up to $500,000 in our company, and another was willing to match those funds if the first group invested. The deal we made with him was he’d get 33.3% We were on a roll.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 4, 2017

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. Companies often use non-patentable but important trade secrets to run their business.

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

In the era of social networking, there are tons of sites dedicated to matching qualified applicants with the right employers, including Startupers , VentureLoop and Startuply. ); Login or signup Welcome | Logout Member Login Login using: Use your Inc.com account: Forgot login ? Create an Inc.com account: Home Magazine Blogs Ask Inc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2013

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. Companies often use non-patentable but important trade secrets to run their business.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 2019

If you want to take the plunge and start your own photography business, there is a lot to consider. Here’s a complete, 10 step guide on how to start a photography business. Write a business plan. Decide your legal business structure. Purchase business insurance. Create a sales plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

OCTOBER 24, 2021

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. Companies often use non-patentable but important trade secrets to run their business.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

tax code allows most businesses to manage taxes based on a fiscal year, which can be any series of 12 months, not necessarily January through December. It can be convenient to establish the fiscal year as starting the same month that the business launches. Assets are not deductible against income. So there is no specific startup table.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 3, 2011

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. Companies often use non-patentable but important trade secrets to run their business.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2011

In addition, they demoed to the paper management research group at the Stanford Intellectual Property Exchange project (a joint project between the Stanford Law School and Computer Science department to help computers understand copyright and create a marketplace for content). How do we access the buyers and sellers? Veritas D.C.

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Transformify

JULY 23, 2018

Detailed 30-page business plan. Powerful matching algorithms are used to allocate the projects and ensure a stringent and high-quality evaluation process. Business valuation or investor background is among the expert evaluator’s selection criteria. What is your intellectual property policy?

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 3, 2018

What they don’t usually show on screen on shows like Flip or Flop is that writing a business plan is a must. If you’re thinking about starting a business that buys up homes, fixes them up and then re-sells them at a profit, the first step is to write a business plan. It serves as a mini version of your entire plan.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2019

A large portion of your competitive advantage and your potential value to investors is the size of your intellectual property portfolio. When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most entrepreneurs think only of patents. Companies often use non-patentable but important trade secrets to run their business.

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Up and Running

MARCH 1, 2016

Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is a great resource to help you learn more about intellectual property. At Palo Alto Software, we use the One-Page Pitch feature in LivePlan to quickly validate new business ideas. You can do this on your own too using the lean planning methodology. Patent Search.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 27, 2010

When someone says Intellectual Property (IP), most people think only of patents. The company name becomes your intellectual property at the moment you incorporate your startup as an LLC or a Corporation. domainname.com) is just as critical as the company name, and the two should match as nearly as possible.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 6, 2021

Intellectual property is tough. It’s hard to invent and patent more “scientific” methods on how to match people. Most people, especially women, don’t even want to feel like they can be ‘matched’ by a computer. After all, isn’t dating all about making new “friends,” and finding them in all the right places?

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Up and Running

AUGUST 19, 2014

If you’re lucky, and an angel’s (investors or groups) interest is piqued by your initial short pitch, they will want to schedule more time with you to get to know you and your team, and to dig deeper into your business plan (i.e. I also learned quickly that no two angels are alike. . Tweet This Tip.

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crowdSPRING Blog

MARCH 14, 2019

If you want to take the plunge and start your own real estate business, there is a lot to consider. Here’s a complete, 11 step guide on how to start a real estate business. Write a business plan. Decide your legal business structure. Purchase business insurance. Create a sales plan.

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www.inc.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

Remember, for any executive-level position, you need not only be searching for someone with education, qualifications and whos a good match personally, but also someone with a proven track record of growth success. ); Login or signup Welcome | Logout Member Login Login using: Use your Inc.com account: Forgot login ? 500|5000 The 2010 Inc.

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Startup Professionals Musings

MARCH 2, 2013

Intellectual property is tough. It’s hard to invent and patent more “scientific” methods on how to match people. Most people, especially women, don’t even want to feel like they can be ‘matched’ by a computer. E-harmony.com has already defined the 29 DIMENSIONS® of compatibility, how many more could there be?

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Startup Professionals Musings

MAY 26, 2011

Intellectual property is tough. It’s hard to invent and patent more “scientific” methods on how to match people. Most people, especially women, don’t even want to feel like they can be ‘matched’ by a computer. E-harmony.com has already defined the 29 DIMENSIONS® of compatibility, how many more could there be?

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Business Plan Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

What makes an idea compelling to an investor is 2 fold: 1) does the idea offer a solution to a big problem or opportunity, and 2) is the idea protected via intellectual property or some other barrier to entry. However, the reality is that very few start-ups present an idea that is actually unique. Technology.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 25, 2010

So please don’t send me any more business plans along these lines, looking for investor funding, with no marketing budget, and promising huge returns. Intellectual property is tough. It’s hard to invent and patent more “scientific” methods on how to match people. So are customers. Let’s give it them.

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www.paulgraham.com

OCTOBER 23, 2010

They all use the same simple-minded model.They seem to have approached the problem by thinking about how todo database matches instead of how dating works in the real world.An Some angels, especially those with technology backgrounds, may be satisfied with a demo and a verbal description of what you plan to do. Well, it doesnt.

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Up and Running

OCTOBER 29, 2015

While some entrepreneurs think it’s unnecessary to write a business plan—especially if outside financing is not needed—I highly disagree. The disciplined process of business planning helps owners and managers foresee both opportunities and problems before they arise. In short, it’s just good business.

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