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How to Protect IP When Outsourcing Software Development

Up and Running

For a lot of non-technical founders—that is, entrepreneurs with a business idea but without technical expertise— sourcing software development talent is critical. In many areas, however, the high demand for tech talent appears to be larger than the supply of qualified tech and software developers for hire. IP assignment clause.

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13 Critical Small Business Legal Requirements to Start a Business

Up and Running

Check out the IRS tax requirements to determine what taxes your business structure deals with. Still, you can use accounting software or work with a tax professional. Intellectual property (IP) is anything created by the human intellect that’s protected by the law from unauthorized use by other people.

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The Audacious Plan to Make Electricity as Easy as WiFi

Both Sides of the Table

A receiver thin enough to be a sleeve on a phone and small enough in surface area requiring the right materials (they can transmit & receive with devices thinner than 5 millimeters), Precision tracking software so they can focus the sound beam to concentrate the sound wave exactly to your receiver and avoid inefficiencies of diffusion.

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I-Corps @ NIH – Pivoting the Curriculum

Steve Blank

We’re changing the order in which we teach the business model canvas and customer development to better-fit therapeutics, diagnostics and medical devices. — Over the last three years the Lean LaunchPad class has started to replace the last century’s “how to write a business plan” classes as the foundation for entrepreneurial education.

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For IP Security at Startups, "Later" Isn't Soon Enough

ReadWriteStart

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. IP theft and other data breaches at startups are definitely trending up.". No amount of Red Bull can save your startup once your IP has been stolen.

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The investment that didn’t happen

K9 Ventures

While Zappos was doing diligence on Modista, the issue was brought up that one of other companies in this space — Like.com , founded by Munjal Shah — had filed for some IP in this area. 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.

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Anatomy of an Innovation-friendly School

This is going to be BIG.

Throw in the Zuckerberg at Harvard story--or rather Harvard "losing" Facebook and you wind up with a lot of schools wanting to figure out how the next big business can wind up on campus. If anything, the business school students need to figure out what their value add is to a design or software development student.

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