A Smart Bear: Startups and Marketing for Geeks

JULY 12, 2010

That's what you sound like when you claim that getting a software patent will protect you from competition. Software patents are especially useless for small, bootstrapped startups. If you've lived in the software world for a few years you know the stuff they teach you in school is irrelevant, so who cares what degree you have?

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 14, 2023

Simply stated, it means that your business has the potential to multiply revenue with minimal incremental cost. Ready to scale is when you have a proven product and a proven business model, about to expand to new geographies and markets. Build a business plan and model that is attractive to investors.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

In the rush to get your business off the ground, you might neglect the need to protect your intellectual property. But if your intellectual property is original and differentiates you from your competition, it will be one of the most valuable parts of your business. Consider Copyright.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JUNE 26, 2020

As an advisor to new hardware entrepreneurs, I often hear the myth that a business plan is no longer required to find an investor, if your idea is good enough. You may have heard that venture capitalists in Silicon Valley no longer read business plans. Major milestones along the way should be outlined.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. business models. Of course “copy” is too strong a word. like WeChat.). Competition.

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Startup Professionals Musings

APRIL 19, 2020

Simply stated, it means that your business has the potential to multiply revenue with minimal incremental cost. Ready to scale is when you have a proven product and a proven business model, about to expand to new geographies and markets. Build a business plan and model that is attractive to investors.

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Steve Blank

APRIL 14, 2013

For the last 10 years China essentially closed its search, media and social network software market to foreign companies with the result that Google, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Dropbox, and 30,000 other websites were not accessible from China. business models. Of course “copy” is too strong a word. like WeChat.). Competition.

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Up and Running

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Protect any intellectual property you may own by applying for copyrights, trademarks, or patents. Plan for success. It’s been proven that planning makes you more successful. To begin with, determine what type of business plan is right for you. Follow the standard business plan outline in this event.

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YoungUpstarts

AUGUST 6, 2012

Students will even receive a minor in entrepreneurship as they develop their own business plans. Some of the i-lab’s long-term residents include mobile app ActivePepper, baby gear rental company Baby Buggle, and software developer Rover. Innovation Depot.

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crowdSPRING Blog

FEBRUARY 14, 2019

Here’s an 11 step complete guide on how to start a business. Write a business plan. Decide your legal business structure. Purchase business insurance. Create a sales plan. Consider branding yourself as an expert in real estate, personal injury, family law, intellectual property, or even admiralty law.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 23, 2019

Suddenly you will find that writing a ten-to-twenty page business plan with details is easy rather than daunting. Create a specific plan to network to get the help you need. Take action on your plan, and finish something every day. Set milestones for each and measure progress to success.

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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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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

A few years ago, before the Internet was pervasive, before everyone carried a smartphone and before do-it-yourself software tools were available for free, it was difficult to reach a critical mass of new customers without spending a million dollars on a website, custom software and television advertising. Both are wrong.

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Startup Professionals Musings

SEPTEMBER 7, 2013

Simply stated, it means that your business has the potential to multiply revenue with minimal incremental cost. Ready to scale is when you have a proven product and a proven business model, about to expand to new geographies and markets. Build a business plan and model that is attractive to investors.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

JANUARY 5, 2022

With a criminal attorney, your business gets the benefit of white-collar defense, including corruption, embezzlement, corporate espionage, intellectual property theft, trade secret thievery, whistleblower lawsuits, and more. Should you build your business on an LLC? Copyrights. To Sum It Up.

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www.reincubate.com

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

Contribute to development of primary business plan, with input on focus, costing and approach (platform, build vs. buy, resourcing, hosting strategy, time & cost). Design and maintain a roadmap of projects to meet demanding business objectives, taking advantage of trends and new technology where appropriate.

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www.inc.com

JULY 9, 2010

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ReadWriteStart

APRIL 10, 2012

Don't share your business plan too freely, even with potential clients (as ReadWriteWeb contributor Steve Blank learned the hard way ). Install anti-hacking software. Worse, Porter warns, breaches of intellectual property are hard to detect. Most startups take the obvious measures: Be careful who you hire.

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Startup Professionals Musings

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Simply stated, it means that your business has the potential to multiply revenue with minimal incremental cost. Ready to scale is when you have a proven product and a proven business model, about to expand to new geographies and markets. Build a business plan and model that is attractive to investors.

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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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NZ Entrepreneur

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

All too often, we see news stories of high-profile trade secrets disputes involving high legal fees, damage to reputation and, most importantly, a loss of intellectual property (IP) and its related advantages for a business. Some examples of trade secrets of a business are: commercial methods. software code.

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Startup Professionals Musings

JANUARY 11, 2015

Simply stated, it means that your business has the potential to multiply revenue with minimal incremental cost. Ready to scale is when you have a proven product and a proven business model, about to expand to new geographies and markets. Build a business plan and model that is attractive to investors.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Writing A Business Plan. Running A Home-Based Business. Naming a Business. Financing a Small Business. Buying a Small Business. RUNNING A BUSINESS. Internet and Online Business. Business Software. Intellectual Property. Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. Newsletters.

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K9 Ventures

APRIL 27, 2011

They had a small amount of cash in the bank from having won two business plan competitions that they used to finance the company to date. The purpose of this post isn’t to debate the pros and cons of software patents. At this stage, the team had had no prior financing.

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Women Entrepreneurs Can

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Digital assets can generally be divided into personal data and commercial intellectual property and software. If you’re using software tools, there could be bugs in them. Be aware that technology (including software) tends to become more affordable over time.

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www.inc.com

SEPTEMBER 24, 2011

Writing A Business Plan. Running A Home-Based Business. Naming a Business. Financing a Small Business. Buying a Small Business. RUNNING A BUSINESS. Internet and Online Business. Business Software. Intellectual Property. Sales & Marketing | Wednesdays. Newsletters.

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Up and Running

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

For example, they’d like to record research and development as assets instead of expenses, because those expenses create intellectual property. Assets look better on the books than expenses, but there is rarely any clear and obvious correlation between money spent on research and development, and market value of intellectual property.

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rapidrollout.wordpress.com

JANUARY 15, 2011

Why Use a Consulting CTO A consulting CTO can help you complete a business plan by estimating costs and timelines for the company’s technology development and deployment. A consulting CTO is an expert on the current state of the technology and can suggest the most appropriate development platform for your business.

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Steve Blank

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Our business model changed as we realized that to become a large company, we needed to automate more than just a few marketers. As we were out looking for our Series B round, our company had gotten the attention of “name of big VC firm here” who wanted a play in enterprise software. Are These Your Slides? More on this in the next post.

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Steve Blank

MARCH 25, 2011

This week, our first team up was PersonalLibraries (the team that made software to help researchers manage, share and reference the thousands of papers in their personal libraries.) Filed under: Business Model versus Business Plan , Customer Development , Lean LaunchPad , Teaching. The Nine Teams Present.

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rob.by

MARCH 8, 2012

He argued that software engineers don’t finish what they start, and that you’re better off paying a technical person than partnering with one. Michael’s second problem comes from holding software engineers to an unprecedented standard of business savviness: Most software engineers aren’t business people.

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Up and Running

AUGUST 3, 2015

Choosing the right web design is crucial, as is making sure that your shopping cart software is well-suited for your business. As with Etsy, you won’t have to set up a website, customize your online storefront, or choose a shopping cart software—when you use eBay to sell your products, that’s all included. Plan your business.

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YoungUpstarts

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

The modernity in professionalism came with the invention of the computer, which is a culmination of office software that gives access to nearly all office equipment. With our intellectual limitations, we tend to think-as-we-go. It is a library, has stationery, writing pad, storage and much more.

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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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Steve Blank

JUNE 8, 2009

Customer Development by Vertical - Click to Enlarge (As a reminder, the Customer Development process says your business plan is just a series of untested hypothesis (unless you’re a domain expert.) How does product development differ in communications hardware versus enterprise software, etc. Regulatory Issues – What are they?

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Hearpreneur

OCTOBER 30, 2015

Prior to crowdSPRING, I was producer and production manager in the film and television industry and Ross was an attorney in private practice specializing in intellectual property. We had a vision of an online platform that would bring together businesses and the best creative talent in the world. 24 – 100% In Charge.

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Up and Running

APRIL 22, 2019

If you’re interested in starting a software as a service (SaaS) business, you’ll want to start with the basics. SaaS (software as a service) means that users access software through their internet browser or a web-based app. You can think of it as a software license. SaaS defined. Starting with an MVP.

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